The tidings which constitute the gospel of Christ are glad tidings; tidings which are designed and perfectly adapted to excite joy and gladness in all who receive them. That they are so, is abundantly evident from the nature of the intelligence which they communicate. They are tidings of an all-sufficient Saviour for the self-destroyed, of an offended God reconciled, of pardon to the justly condemned, of sanctification to the polluted, of honor and glory to the degraded, of deliverance to captives, of freedom to slaves, of sight to the blind, of happiness to the wretched, of a forfeited heaven regained, of life, everlasting life to the dead.
Edward Payson — "The Gospel, Glad Tidings" (Sermon L, on 1 Timothy 1:11), in Complete Works of Edward Payson, D.D., vol. 3 (Philadelphia: J. & J. L. Gihon, 1851), p. 36
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