I learn, on the warrant of God's own word, that Emmanuel has satisfied, in my behalf, the inviolable claims of God's justice; so that while the moral government of a righteous Sovereign is vindicated by the atonement, the guilty sinner is placed in a new condition with respect to that holy Judge who scans his most secret faults. "By the obedience of one shall many"—the multitude of believers—"be made righteous." Rom. 5:19. Like the guest admitted to the feast because he is clad in the wedding-garment provided by the munificence of the king himself, the sinner is accepted before God because his iniquities have been laid upon his Redeemer, and the Saviour's righteousness by faith becomes his own.

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