Robert Traill (The Throne of Grace), Works 1:77:
The gift of Christ for us, is a great privilege that gives boldness at the throne of grace. So the apostle argues, Rom. 8:32, He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all (you may see who this all are, ver. 28-30), how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? As if he had said, “It is a small thing to God to give us all other things, when he hath given his Son. We receive now many blessings, blessed be the giver; we have greater things in the promise than we yet receive, or can yet receive; but shall surely receive in his time: yet all we get, and shall to eternity receive, is far less than the gift of Christ.” It is like our Lord had respect to this in that word to the woman of Samaria, John 4:10, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. If she had known Christ as the well of salvation to sinners, she would have employed him, and should have been accepted of him.
The gift of Christ for us, is a great privilege that gives boldness at the throne of grace. So the apostle argues, Rom. 8:32, He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all (you may see who this all are, ver. 28-30), how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? As if he had said, “It is a small thing to God to give us all other things, when he hath given his Son. We receive now many blessings, blessed be the giver; we have greater things in the promise than we yet receive, or can yet receive; but shall surely receive in his time: yet all we get, and shall to eternity receive, is far less than the gift of Christ.” It is like our Lord had respect to this in that word to the woman of Samaria, John 4:10, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. If she had known Christ as the well of salvation to sinners, she would have employed him, and should have been accepted of him.
