No glorying but in the Lord

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Robert Traill (The Lord's Prayer, John 17:24), Works 2:233-234:

So proud, and so inclined is flesh to glory in God’s presence, that sinners do vainly hunt after, and as vainly imagine they have attained some matter of glorying before God. But, saith the apostle, “Christ is so made of God unto us, as to cut off all pretensions to any glorying but in the Lord.” So that a Christian, when he finds he is made wise to salvation, must say, “This is from Christ;” when he seeth any justifying righteousness upon him, wherein he stands safe and accepted before God, he must say, “This is none of mine but Christ’s righteousness;” when he finds any sanctification in him, in his heart, and way, and worship, he must say, “This is but a few droppings from the fountain Christ; a little of the ointment that was poured in all fulness on my High-priest Jesus;” when he gets any piece of redemption, or acts his faith and hope on complete redemption, all his acknowledgments, and all his expectations are, and must singly centre in Christ the Redeemer.
 
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