A Treasury of Gospel Grace Digged Out of Mount Sinai

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Marrow Man

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From a sermon by Ebenezer Erskine, on Exodus 20:2-3 -- "I am the LORD thy God ..."

I remark that this, as all the other promises, is in Christ; As, meaning is that it goes upon a ransom found, and a satisfaction paid unto justice, by Christ our glorious Surety. Sirs, be aware of imagining that an absolute God, or a God out of Christ, utters this promise. No, No; an absolute God is a consuming fire unto guilty sinners, and he could never speak in such a dialect to any of the sinful rebellious race of Adam, in a consistency with the honour of his holiness, justice, and sovereignty, which were offended and affronted in the violation of his royal law. Unless the Son of God had promised, as our Surety, to pay the infinite ransom that justice demanded, none of Adam’s posterity had ever heard any thing but the terrible thunders of his wrath and justice pursuing them for sin. So that this covenant grant or promise, as well as the other declarations of the grace and love of God in the word to perishing sinners, must needs go upon the footing of the blood and satisfaction of Jesus, 2 Cor. v. 19, “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.” And, therefore, Sirs, whenever you read or hear a word of grace from God, think upon Christ, in and through whom only God is a God of peace; and let you soul say, “O thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift!”
 
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