Robert Traill (Sermons from 1 Peter 1:1-4), Works 4:40-41:
If you would come to this blood of sprinkling, that it may be upon you, you must adventure upon it, and place all your confidence in it, and make it your only plea for your acceptance and justification before God. We are justified by his blood, saith the apostle, Rom. 5:9. The believer is to see his justification streaming from the life-blood of the Son of God. When a poor creature sees the holiness of God’s law, and the severity of his justice, and feels a disturbance in his own conscience, it is no easy matter to believe that the blood that was shed without the gates of Jerusalem, in the day when this great sacrifice was offered up, is able to wash away all our sins; and that we have nothing else to betake ourselves to; God would have nothing else. Christ tells his Father, Heb. 10:5, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me. Burnt-offerings and sacrifices of the law, the Father would take none of these of Christ, but he took his own sweet life; he took his own heart blood for the expiation of the sins of his people.
If you would come to this blood of sprinkling, that it may be upon you, you must adventure upon it, and place all your confidence in it, and make it your only plea for your acceptance and justification before God. We are justified by his blood, saith the apostle, Rom. 5:9. The believer is to see his justification streaming from the life-blood of the Son of God. When a poor creature sees the holiness of God’s law, and the severity of his justice, and feels a disturbance in his own conscience, it is no easy matter to believe that the blood that was shed without the gates of Jerusalem, in the day when this great sacrifice was offered up, is able to wash away all our sins; and that we have nothing else to betake ourselves to; God would have nothing else. Christ tells his Father, Heb. 10:5, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me. Burnt-offerings and sacrifices of the law, the Father would take none of these of Christ, but he took his own sweet life; he took his own heart blood for the expiation of the sins of his people.
