The law being broken and violated by sin, the honour of the law, and the authority of God, the great Lawgiver, are, as it were, laid in the dust and trampled under foot by the rebellious and disobedient sinner. When man sinned, he upon the matter denied that the law was holy, just, and good; and at the same time disowned God for a sovereign, saying, with proud Pharaoh, ‘Who is the Lord that I should obey him? I myself am Lord and will come no more unto thee.’ Now God will have his law vindicated and the honour of it repaired, otherwise no flesh living can be saved. Oh that this were but duly weighed by sinners who have broken the law times and ways without number! If reparation be not made to the holy law for the transgression, thereof it stands as an eternal bar in the way of our salvation. It is among the irreversible decrees of heaven, that in his sight ‘no flesh living shall be justified,’ unless the holiness of the law be vindicated by a perfect obedience to its precept, and a complete satisfaction be given unto justice for the injuries done to the honour of the great Lord and Lawgiver: without this, he will by no means acquit the guilty.
Ebenezer Erskine
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