Robert Traill (The Throne of Grace), Works 1:71-72:
If you approach to God out of Christ, you run into a consuming fire. Here is the ground of the believer’s boldness: The God he seeks, and before whom he comes, is revealed to us as Christ’s Father, and ours in him; John 20:17, "Go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God." Blessed be the words, and the speaker of them; and happy is the believer of them. Faith cannot stand strong without the remembrance of them. They are my brethren, for all their fainting, and forsaking of me: I count and call them such, though I be entered in part into my glory. Tell them whither I am going, and where they are henceforth to seek me; and how to call on and worship the Father, as mine and theirs, and theirs because mine.
If you approach to God out of Christ, you run into a consuming fire. Here is the ground of the believer’s boldness: The God he seeks, and before whom he comes, is revealed to us as Christ’s Father, and ours in him; John 20:17, "Go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God." Blessed be the words, and the speaker of them; and happy is the believer of them. Faith cannot stand strong without the remembrance of them. They are my brethren, for all their fainting, and forsaking of me: I count and call them such, though I be entered in part into my glory. Tell them whither I am going, and where they are henceforth to seek me; and how to call on and worship the Father, as mine and theirs, and theirs because mine.
