If to view God in Christ is a comforting truth, it is also a sanctifying truth. Why has God revealed himself in Jesus? To evince the exceeding hatefulness of sin, and to show that nothing short of such a stupendous sacrifice could remove it consistently with the glory of the Divine nature, and the honour of the Divine government. Each sin, then, is a blow struck at this transcendent truth. The eye averted from it, sin appears a trifle; it can be looked at without indignation, tampered with without fear, committed without hesitation, persisted in without remorse, gloried in without shame, confessed without sorrow.
Octavius Winslow — The Glory of the Redeemer in His Person and Work (Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1855), pp. 80-81
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