Look at your own experience, Christian reader. Has not your heart found the strongest incitement to duty, in the fact that you are not your own, but have been purchased with a price, even by the precious blood of the dying Lamb; and that you sustain to Christ the relation of one infinitely obliged? Is it not when you feel that he has done every thing for you, that you long to do some thing in return for him? Oh, yes! While philosophy with all her wisdom, has never been able to move men to holy living, because she can not reach their hearts, every one who has cordially received the Gospel, has found the simple truth that he is bound to Jesus Christ by obligations which never can be canceled, a vital, active energy within him. The law is established, and not made void, when men are justified by faith.
Ray Palmer — Ray Palmer, Pastor of the First Congregational Church, Albany, Closet Hours: or, Aids to Spiritual Improvement and Practical Religion (Albany: E. H. Pease & Co.; New Haven: T. H. Pease, 1851), ch. VI, "Relation of Believers to the Redeemer," p. 88
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