Holiness as well as pardon is to be had from the blood of the cross.... All fancied sanctification which
blessedness. He who has called me to vigilance can make me a partaker of
its joy. He can make my watch-tower, lonely and dark as it may seem, none
other than the house of God, and the very gate of heaven.
1. Every time we say "for Thy name's" sake, or for Christ's sake, we are making use of another's
claim, another's merit, and conceding or accepting the whole doctrine of imputed righteousness.
Every man is daily getting, in some way or other, what he personally has no title to. When a son gets
an inheritance from his father, he gets what does not belong to him, and what could easily and legally
be diverted from him. When one who is not a son gets an estate by will, he gets what he has no claim
to, simply by a legal deed. Human jurisprudence recognizes these transferences as competent and
proper, not fictitious or absurd. Man daily acts on these principles of getting what he has no right to,
simply because a fellow-man wills it, and law acknowledges that will. Why then should he speak of
fictitious transferences in spiritual blessings, proceeding on precisely the same principle?
2. All divine life, and all the precious fruits of it, pardon, peace, and holiness, spring from the cross....
Holiness as well as pardon is to be had from the blood of the cross.... All fancied sanctification which
does not arise wholly from the blood of the cross is nothing better than Pharisaism.... If we would be
holy, we must get to the cross, and dwell there; else, notwithstanding all our labor and diligence, and
fasting, and praying, and good works, we shall be yet void of real sanctification, destitute of those
humble, gracious tempers which accompany a clear view of the cross." --BERRIDGE'S Letters.