Sermon I, "The Sword of Justice Awakened against God's Fellow," on Zechariah 13:7, in The Sermons and Other Practical Works of the Late Reverend Ralph Erskine, vol. 1 (London: William Tegg, 1865), p. 11

When nothing among the creatures could be found to deliver the soul of the sinner, from going down to the pit, God himself found a ransom; he found an atonement, Job xxxiii 24, by setting forth Christ to be the propitiat…