We are saved wholly and entirely by Christ's righteousness.
Now by "salvation" is meant a perfect deliverance from all misery and the bestowment of eternal life; by "eternal life" is meant happiness that is perfect or that fills the capacity of the creature.
But this hinders not but that the saints' being of various capacities may have various degrees of happiness, and yet the perfect happiness of every one be the fruit of Christ's purchase.
Indeed, it can't be properly said that Christ purchased any particular degree of happiness; but in the general he purchased perfect happiness, or which is the same thing, he purchased that everyone's capacity should be filled.
The saints are like so many vessels of different sizes cast into a sea of happiness, where every vessel is full.
This is eternal life for a man, forever to have his capacity filled.
This Christ purchased.
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