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There is a remedy revealed for man’s need, as wide and broad and deep as man’s disease. We need not be afraid to look at sin, and study its nature, origin, power, extent and vileness, if we only look at the same time at the almighty medicine provided for us in the salvation that is in Jesus Christ. Though sin has abounded, grace has much more abounded. Yes; in the everlasting covenant of redemption, to which Father, Son and Holy Ghost are parties - in the Mediator of that covenant, Jesus Christ the righteous, perfect God and perfect Man in one Person - in the work He did by dying for our sins and rising again for our justification - in the offices that He fills as our Priest, Substitute, Physician, Shepherd, and Advocate - in the precious blood He shed which can cleanse us from all sin - in the everlasting righteousness that He brought in - in the perpetual intercession that He carries as our Representative at God’s right hand - in His power to save to the uttermost the chief of sinners, His willingness to receive and pardon the vilest, His readiness to bear with the weakest - in the grace of the Holy Spirit which He plants in the hearts of all His people, renewing, sanctifying, and causing old things to pass away and all things to become new - in all this - and oh, what a brief sketch it is! - in all this, I say, there is a full, perfect and complete medicine for the hideous sin. Awful and tremendous as the right view of sin undoubtedly is, no one need faint and despair if he will take a right view of Jesus Christ at the same time.

J.C. Ryle
1 year ago