“ Would we be excited to unfeigned and active love to the Author of our salvation?-We love him because he first loved us. Would we be excited to ingenuous sorrow for sin?-While we look to Him whom we have pierced, we mourn after a godly sort. Nothing is so likely to break the stony heart, and to melt the ice within us to evangelical repentance, as a view of a suffering Saviour, wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities. ”

“ An angel from heaven might have taught us the will of our Maker, and given us a good example. Nay, a man like ourselves might have done both. The deity of Christ, and his atonement for sin, must stand or fall together. Hence those who deny the one, do also, consistently enough, deny the other. It is the dignity of the Redeemer's person that gives efficacy and validity to his sacrifice.
Misery is the natural consequence of guilt. Death is the wages of sin ”

“ Yet, mysterious as it is, this is he of whom they speak, in other places, as calling himself a worm and no man, a reproach of men, and despised by the people; as being hated without a cause; as being despised and respected of men; led like a lamb to the slaughter; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and cut off out of the land of the living. The cross of Christ explains, elucidates, and confirms all these predictions. ”

“ Our being chosen to eternal life, our regeneration, our calling, our justification, our adoption into the family of God our sanctification, our perseverance in faith and holiness to eternal felicity, all have an immediate relation to the atonement of Christ. ”

“ Would we be induced to a thorough renunciation of every false way?--No motive is so effectual to divorce our affections from the abominations to which we have formerly cleaved, and turn our feet from every evil way, as the powerful persuasion that Christ died for us; that we, being dead unto sin, should live unto righteousness Would we be induced to practice all that is comprehended in the duties of benevolence, kindness, charity. ”

“ In consequence of his dying for us, the caregiving Spirit is bestowed, to impart to him heavenly knowledge, evangelical repentance, living faith, holy love, and spiritual joy. Whatever we are as Christians, we are that of God in Christ Jesus, and as the spirit of his death. He is made of God unto us, not only wisdom and righteousness, but sanctification. ”

“ We see, on the ground, that a just and holy God, though determined to display his mercy and, unbounded grace, would do it only in such a way as might eternally vindicate the honour of his law, might demonstrate the purity of his nature, and declare the inviolable faithfulness of his threatening word. ”

“ Though he was really and truly a man, that he might be capable of suffering, and of dying yet all the fulness of the Godhead dwelt bodily in him. He and the Father are one in nature and perfections. If the Redeemer's death were not a proper atonement for sin, why was it necessary that God should be manifested in the flesh? ”

“ But when the father grants these through the wounds, the agonies, the death of his dear, his only begotten, his equal Son, he not only manifests his love, but commends it; he displays it in such a way as may just inflame us with gratitude, and transport us with everlasting admiration. ”

“ If the disciples of Christ ever escape the contempt and resentment of the surrounding world, it must be either because they fail of confessing his truth distinctly, or because they disguise by their conduct what they confess with their lips ”

“ To abstain from fornication, because their bodies are the members of Christ and the temple of the Holy Ghost;--To glorify God in their body and spirit which are God's because they are not their own, but bought with a price ”

“ A lively sense of this, will produce the gratitude of heart, which will be more operative than the most cogent philosophical reasonings, to stir you up to activity in the way of holiness, or the most awful threatenings to deter you from the contrary. ”