But behold the glory! My reader, it is your highest honour, as it was his deepest shame, your richest glory, as it was his deepest humiliation, that he literally did bear all the sins of all his church. As truly as we are “made the righteousness of God in him,” he was “made sin,” or, a sin-offering for us. Behold how beautifully has the Holy Spirit brought out the doctrines of substitution and union. Of substitution thus, “He hath made him (who knew no sin) to be sin for us.” And of union thus, “that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” O amazing truth! Sinking to our deepest dishonour, he raises us to his highest glory. Sinking himself with our fallen humanity, he raises us to a union with God. Substituting himself for us, he makes us one with himself.
Octavius Winslow — The Glory of the Redeemer in His Person and Work (Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1855), pp. 146-147
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