"God commendeth his love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us." This is the foundation, and the only foundation of the Christian's hopes. It is only in virtue of the atonement made by the Lord Jesus that he dares to hope for the favour of God, and a happy immortality. In the cross of Christ he beholds the noblest display of all the divine attributes; there "justice and mercy meet together, righteousness and peace mutually embrace." There all the perfections of the divine nature harmonize, and all tend to this point as to a common centre, to display the glory of the great Creator in the salvation of sinful and guilty creatures.
Andrew Ramsay — Andrew Ramsay, A.M., Preacher of the Gospel, Sermons, by the Late Rev. Andrew Ramsay, to Which Is Prefixed a Short Memoir of the Author (Edinburgh: Printed for Bell & Bradfute, by Abernethy & Walker, 1821), Sermon IX, "On Experience Working Hope," p. 253
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