W. Bramley-Moore, The Great Oblation; or, A Plain Inquiry into the Nature of the Atonement as the Efficient Means of Taking Away Human Sin (London: William Macintosh, 1864), "Merit," pp. 217–218

To us the salvation comes free as the sunshine, without money and without price, but it is Christ's right as the second Adam. It is always true that eternal life is the gift of God to us, but it is the wages of Christ's…