What would the Sight of Christ bleeding on the Cross for us, groaning under our Sins, have wrought on a tender Heart? The same as far as gracious Reflections can work, should be the Temper of our Hearts, when we set him and his Death before us. Here we see Christ dying, and paying our Ransom. O the dreadful Example of God’s Justice upon Sin! O the sweetest Example of God’s Mercy to a Sinner, acting their several Parts in this Spectacle of Christ represented to our Faith, as yet hanging on the Cross; the Lamb of God who takes away the Sins of the World, as it were yet smoaking on the Altar.
John Bisset — John Bisset, Communion betwixt Christ and the Believer; or, the Delight They Have in the Remembrance, Fellowship, and Commendation of Each Other: Held Forth in a Sermon Preached in the College-Church of Aberdeen, Immediately before the Celebration of the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, April 18th 1742 (Aberdeen: James Chalmers, 1742), p. 16
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