It is no mockery of Divine justice, then, when God accepts the substitution of His own sinless Son in the place of a sinful world. Oh no! it is a glorious magnifying of all the attributes together. It is love, surpassing love, to have suspended the deserved stroke at all, and to have consented to any reconciliation. Surely the majesty of God’s law, its holiness, its justice, and its goodness, are only more conspicuous, and shine more awfully sublime in the eyes of a ransomed world, than if the freely offered pardon required no sacrifice, and could be bestowed without any effort.

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