Ralph Erskine (The Sword of Justice awakened against God's Fellow), Sermons 1:40:
This blood of Christ, shed by the sword of justice, has purchased faith to the faithless; repentance to the impenitent; grace to the graceless; and nothing did he purchase to any but as guilty sinners, destitute of all good. Here is a good market for you that have no good, no grace. Others that are increased with goods, and think that they have a good heart to God, good desires and inclinations, and hope thereupon for God’s favour, may be doing with their old covenant of works, where they and their money shall perish: but for you that are poor, guilty, filthy, perishing sinners, destitute of all good in yourselves, here is good news to you: here is grace, free grace, full grace, rich grace, all grace; grace to justify the guilty, grace to sanctify the filthy, grace to strengthen the weak, grace to supply the needy. You that want grace may come here and get it; you that have grace may come here and get more. This blood has purchased all grace, and the purchaser stands ready to communicate it: for he has no other thing to do with his mediatorial grace, but to give it out to sinners, to men, to rebels: “He has received gifts for men, even for the rebellious, that God the Lord might dwell among them.”
This blood of Christ, shed by the sword of justice, has purchased faith to the faithless; repentance to the impenitent; grace to the graceless; and nothing did he purchase to any but as guilty sinners, destitute of all good. Here is a good market for you that have no good, no grace. Others that are increased with goods, and think that they have a good heart to God, good desires and inclinations, and hope thereupon for God’s favour, may be doing with their old covenant of works, where they and their money shall perish: but for you that are poor, guilty, filthy, perishing sinners, destitute of all good in yourselves, here is good news to you: here is grace, free grace, full grace, rich grace, all grace; grace to justify the guilty, grace to sanctify the filthy, grace to strengthen the weak, grace to supply the needy. You that want grace may come here and get it; you that have grace may come here and get more. This blood has purchased all grace, and the purchaser stands ready to communicate it: for he has no other thing to do with his mediatorial grace, but to give it out to sinners, to men, to rebels: “He has received gifts for men, even for the rebellious, that God the Lord might dwell among them.”
