Oh, let us take care that our ministry shall keep full in the sight of men that open way, that free access, that directness of coming, not to some mere symbolical representation, but to the very present Christ, in all his tenderness of love and power to save. Ordinances, ministers, are sadly out of place, no matter how divinely appointed for certain uses, when instead of mere helps in coming to Christ, they are made, in any sense, conditions or terms of approach, so that the sinner gets to Christ only, or in any degree, by them. The light of the sun is not more free to every man that cometh into the world, than is the salvation of Jesus to every believing sinner. It is our business to be continually showing that precious truth; coming by faith, all the condition;—Christ, the full and perfect salvation of all that come.
Charles P. McIlvaine — "The Work of Preaching Christ," a charge to the clergy of the Diocese of Ohio (June 3, 1863), printed in Charles P. McIlvaine, Righteousness by Faith; or, The Nature and Means of Our Justification before God, new and revised edition of "Oxford Divinity" (Philadelphia: Protestant Episcopal Book Society, 1864), pp. 469–470
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