Mrs. Luzene Chipman, Earnest Entreaties and Appeals to the Unconverted: With Persuasions to Religious Duties (Raleigh: Press of the Weekly Post, 1852), "God Invites the World to Be Saved," pp. 99–100

The motive of Christ was to seek and to save that which was lost; to procure our pardon as lost sinners was his grand business upon earth. He took human nature upon him, that he might redeem us from sin, and die the just…