13. Can we ourselves make this satisfaction?

Certainly not; on the contrary we daily increase our guilt. 1)


1) I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. Job 9:2,3.

Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity as water? Job 15:15,16.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. Matt. 6:12.

* For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Matt. 16:26.

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