Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... Hence, too, we become more suitably impressed, (even overwhelmed would be an inadequate name for a feeling which we never can experience in a just degree,) with a sense of the unspeakable mercy and love of God. It is not merely that he pardons those who deserve punishment at his hands: but, if we may presume to use such an expression, in speaking of truths, the grandeur of which exceeds our limited faculties. He who declares himself to abhor all iniquity, has devised a plan for exercising his lenity, without disparagement to his attribute of justice, by the sacrifice of the only Son of his love, the partaker of his divine nature and glory. ...
For more, see William Wilberforce on the Christian’s sense of guilt, grace, and gratitude.
For more, see William Wilberforce on the Christian’s sense of guilt, grace, and gratitude.