Patrick Fairbairn on Christ dying and drawing

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... Again, when Christ speaks of being lifted up, that he might draw all men unto him, it implies that there was a fitness in this for compassing the design, or that his crucifixion was the most apt, powerful, and effective means for producing such a result, as the drawing of men to him. ...

The end here is, to have sinners drawn to him with the cords of love, and united in an everlasting fellowship of peace and blessing; and the chosen means for attaining it is, the exhibition of a crucified Redeemer, lifted up and dying for sinners on a malefactor’s cross. Where, we may well exclaim, could any thing be found so well adapted for such a purpose? What could even be conceived more admirably fitted to reach the inmost feelings of the heart, and move it out of all the thoughts and devices which naturally tend to keep it in alienation from the life of God? ...

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