Lecture XI, on Romans 3:20-26 (comment on verse 24), in Lectures on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans (New York: Robert Carter, 1843), p. 59

We here understand that this justification is not wrought for, but given, and given freely. It is not a purchase, but a present. It is given by grace, which is just saying, that it is given gratis. When we say that it is…