Mercy may move for the pardon of an offender, (such did the mercy and everlasting love of God in behalf of sinners,) but strict justice forbids a dispensation of such pardon without a satisfaction condign, and fully adequate to the nature of the offence; but such satisfaction being made, (as is the case with Christ's undertaking for his people,) strict justice forbids the pardon to be refused to the offenders for whom it was made. Hence all believers in Christ being the persons for whom he has made an intire satisfaction, (for their faith is a proof of their being his) are legally intitled to the pardon he has procured, although they have nothing in heart or life, for which they might deserve it. "They are justified, (pardoned) freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ."
Titus Knight — Titus Knight, Minister of the Gospel at Halifax in Yorkshire, Salvation by Christ: A Sermon Intending to Shew, I. Man's Guiltiness by Sin. II. The Impossibility of Being Justified by the Law. III. The Sufficiency of Christ for All the Purposes of Salvation (London: Printed for the Author, sold by W. Oliver, 1777), p. 18
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