He is "called Jesus, because he saves his people from their sins," so that, should he save them in their sins, he would be neither Lord nor Jesus. To save men from the punishment, and not from the power of sin, were to do his work by halves, and be an imperfect Saviour. His office, as the deliverer, is, "to turn away ungodliness from Jacob." "He is sent to bless men, in turning them from their iniquities." "To make an end of sin," so that he would destroy his own designs, and nullify his offices, to save men abiding in their unconverted state.
Joseph Alleine — An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners, ch. III, "Of the Necessity of Conversion" (Glasgow: Printed for Chalmers and Collins, 1824), p. 153
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