"What intolerable insolence and vanity would it be for a man that wears the rich and costly robe of Christ's righteousness, in which there is not one thread of his own spinning, to pride himself as if he had made it, and were beholden to none for it. O man, thine excellencies, whatever they are, are borrowed from Christ; they oblige thee to him, but he can be no more obliged to thee who wearest them, than the sun is obliged to him who borrows its light, or the fountain to him that draws its water for his use and benefit."
-John Flavel (1630-1691), The Method of Grace, pp. 23-24
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