be safe, for it is written, "The just shall live by faith."

These things are true, and always were true. All that men ever did
well, or nobly, or lovingly, in this world, WAS DONE BY FAITH--by
faith in God of some sort or other; even in the man who thinks least
about religion, it is so. Every time a man means to do, and really
does, a just or generous action, he does it because he believes,
more or less clearly, that there is a just and loving God above him,
and that justice and love are the right thing for a man--the law by
which God intended him to walk: so that this small, dim faith still
shews itself in practice; and the more faith a man has in God and in
God's laws, the more it will shew itself in every action of his
daily life; and the more this faith works in his life and conduct,
the better man he is;--the more he is like God's image, in which man
was originally made;--and the more he is like Christ, the new
pattern of God's image, whom all men must copy.

So that the sum of the matter is this, without Christ we can do
nothing, by trusting in Christ we can do every thing. See, then,
how true the verse before my text must be, that he whose soul is
lifted up in him is not upright; for if a man fancies that his body
and soul are his own, to do what he pleases with them, when all the
time they are God's gift;--if a man fancies that he can take perfect
care of himself, while all the time it is God that is keeping him
out of a thousand sins and dangers;--if a man fancies that he can do
right of himself, when all the time the little good that he does is
the work of God's Spirit, which has not yet left him;--if a man
fancies, in short, that he can do without God, when all the time it
is in God that he lives, and moves, and has his being, how can such
a man be called upright? Upright! he is utterly wrong;--he is