In him is laid up for us that supplement to our nature, which we shall find the need of sooner or later; and that it cannot be countervailed by any assistance from the creatures, or any improvement of our own faculties: For we were made to be happy only in God; and all our labours and hopes, while we do not thirst after our deified state, -- to partake as truly of God as we do of flesh and blood, to be glorified in his nature, as we have been dishonoured in our own, -- are the labours and hopes of those who utterly mistake themselves.
Kwa maana kazi ya msalaba kwa hao wanaopotea ni upuuzi, bali kwetu sisi tunaookolewa ni nguvu ya Mungu ituokoayo na kazi zote za Ibilisi. Ukisoma kitabu cha Wagalatia 3:13, 14; inasema, "Kristo alitukomboa katika laana ya torati, kwa kuwa alifanyika laana kwa ajili yetu; maana imeandikwa, Amelaaniwa kila mtu aangikwaye juu ya mti; ili kwamba baraka ya Ibrahimu iwafikilie Mataifa katika Yesu Kristo, tupate kupokea ahadi ya Roho kwa njia ya imani." Hii ni kazi ya msalaba kwa ajili yetu. Kwake yeye aliyeokoka kweli kweli, hakuna namna ambayo laana itafanya kazi katika maisha yake, lakini kwa mtu ambaye wokovu wake ni wa mchanganyo, ijapokuwa yumo kanisani, laana itatafuna maisha yake. Lakini pia kwa wale ambao hawana imani katika kazi hii ambayo Yesu Kristo ameifanya, bado maisha yao yataandamwa na kazi za Ibilisi. Kubali kubatizwa: