9. Magnifying Jesus Christ
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Magnifying Jesus Christ
If I were to venture to add one word of my own experience to all that of [James] Fraser1 it would be this: that all the sin, and shame, and agony of soul, connected with my own sanctification, is all ordained to me, I daily see, in order that I may more and more exalt and magnify Jesus Christ as my alone sanctification, as well as my alone justification. My daily experience of the sinfulness of my own soul leads me every day deeper and deeper into the person and the work of Christ, as Paul alone preaches Christ and his work to me, and as all evangelical and spiritually minded men have received Christ, and have more and more rested on him, and more and more looked to him for all their holiness of heart, as well as for all their peace of conscience. The whole magnificent economies of creation and redemption, of grace and of glory, are all ordained of the Father for the glory of his Son. And the fulness of the Son’s glory will be the fulness of our salvation, and nothing else will.
*From James Fraser, Laird of Brea: Parish Minister of Culross; Bass Rock, Blackness, and Newgate Prisoner, and Author of ‘The Book of the Intricacies of My Heart and Life’ (Edinburgh/London: Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier, 1911), 143.
1. James Fraser (1638-1698) of Brea was one of the persecuted Covenanters, whose memoirs were considered by Whyte as having “few, if any, equals among the foremost books of its kind” (James Fraser, 3).