Hew Morrison Collection > Reminiscences of the life and labours of Dugald Buchanan, formerly teacher and evangelist at Rannock, Perthshire

28 EEMINISCENCES OF DUG ALT) BUCHANAN.
Being confident of this very thing, that he who has
begun the good work in you, will perform it into the
day of Jesus Christ."
Jamiary 2nd., 1743. — A memorable day in Bu-
chanan's life — '' The Sabbath," he says, " on which
the Lord opened my eyes to see the Mediator in all
his offices, from 1 Cor. i. 30 ; but of him are ye
in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom,
and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption."
He makes no mention where he was, or who preached,
or whether it was simply from reading the passage, that
he found such a clear light on the fulness and freeness
of Christ ? He speaks of this occasion in terms that
would almost lead us to suppose he had light now for
the first time. It is certain, however, that by means
of this passage, whether privately or in the house of
God, he had discoveries of the mediatorial glory of
Jesus, such as he had never previously realised. He had
his relapses after this — " thorns in the flesh, lest he
should be exalted above measure by the glory of the
revelation," but his self-righteous tendencies never
afterwards obtaiued their former ascendancy. Speak-
ing of this triumph of grace, he says, *' that Sabbath
evening after I had spent the greater part of the day
in meditating upon the fulness that is in Christ, I saw
how suitable He was for my case in every way, and, as
it were, called for my former unbelief, to see if it
could object anything against this complete Saviour,
now revealed to me in the gospel ; but at this time
unbelief durst not appear. I have many a time called
the fore-mentioned scripture my charter for the heavenly
inheritance."