When sin had spread its withering touch over the fair face of nature, and corrupted the purity of that creature whom God had made in his own likeness, Christ compassionated his fallen state; he loved the sinner, and descended from the height of that glory which he had with the Father, to redeem him from his sin. But when he had done this, when he came in his humiliating condition, and taught the forgiveness of sins, through faith in his name—when rejected by those he so loved—nay, more, when scorned, when scourged, when crucified, when in the agonies of death he hung upon the cross between two thieves, the despised of the world, His love remained in all its ardour, in all its pristine vigour.

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