Robert Traill (The Throne of Grace), Works 1:106-107:
Eph. 5:2, Christ hath loved us, and hath given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour. This savour never spends or wears out. The blood of Jesus, in the virtue of it, in the merit of it, and in the power of it, is as fresh this day, as in the day it was shed on the cross. He is still the new slain way to the holiest of all, Heb. 10:20, as fresh and fragrant as ever. If men by their unbelief account it old or stale, and to have lost its savour and virtue to themselves; and if they will seek for somewhat else to procure them acceptance in heaven; let them try, and perish; for none can help them that reject Christ. But our Lord presents nothing for the salvation of his body, the church, but his own blood; and nothing else is accepted in heaven for this end, but that precious blood. And all they to whose conscience this blood is applied, and who come into it, and feel its virtue and power, will abhor all vain and dangerous mixtures of any thing with this sovereign balsam. It is always savoury in heaven; and it is always savoury to all them that are in the right way to heaven.
Eph. 5:2, Christ hath loved us, and hath given himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour. This savour never spends or wears out. The blood of Jesus, in the virtue of it, in the merit of it, and in the power of it, is as fresh this day, as in the day it was shed on the cross. He is still the new slain way to the holiest of all, Heb. 10:20, as fresh and fragrant as ever. If men by their unbelief account it old or stale, and to have lost its savour and virtue to themselves; and if they will seek for somewhat else to procure them acceptance in heaven; let them try, and perish; for none can help them that reject Christ. But our Lord presents nothing for the salvation of his body, the church, but his own blood; and nothing else is accepted in heaven for this end, but that precious blood. And all they to whose conscience this blood is applied, and who come into it, and feel its virtue and power, will abhor all vain and dangerous mixtures of any thing with this sovereign balsam. It is always savoury in heaven; and it is always savoury to all them that are in the right way to heaven.
