Sunday, June 23, 2013

On the only way to have Peace with God

"Christ is a way to take away the effect of God's displeasure; Christ is the only way to take it away. 'Shall I give the fruit of my body,' saith the prophet Micah, 6.7, 'for the sin of my soul? thousands of rams, or ten thousand rivers of oil?' No, alas! this will not buy out the penance of one sin, when he hath sinned; it is all too mean a price: there must be a better to take away that wrath; that is, the heavy punishment of God from a believer. I say a better price than this; not a dearer price to us poor men, but yet a more dear and acceptable price unto God; a price, in its nature, infinite and invaluable; but, of this price, not a farthing goes out of our purse; there is the greatness. Christ is a way to take away all wrath, in respect of the heavy hand of God, which is the fruit of man's sin." - Tobias Crisp

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