The power of Christ to subdue the most hardened sinner, and his power to cancel the most aggravated guilt, and his power to open the gate of heaven, and secure our admission there,—all this is evinced with undeniable certainty by the fact, that even in the lowest depths of his humiliation, before his work was finished, or his reward secured, he snatched this brand from the burning, and rescued this captive from the power of Satan, and carried him as a trophy from the cross, when he entered within the veil. And oh! if such was Christ's power then, who should now despair, who knows that Jesus,—then on the cross, is now upon the throne,—exalted as a Prince and Saviour, to give repentance and remission of sins.

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