The Atonement, Sin’s Wages, and Holiness
The Atonement.—The atonement by the cross is not so much a member of the body of Christian doctrine, as the life blood that runs through the whole of it. There is not an important truth but what is presupposed by it, included in it, or arises out of it; nor any part of practical religion but what hangs upon it.—[A. Fuller. Sin's Wages.—The wages that sin bargains for with the sinner are life, pleasure and profit; but the wages it pays him are death, torment and destruction. He that would understand the falsehood and deceit of sin, must compare the promises and payments together.—[South. Holiness.—If it be heaven toward which we journey, it will be holiness in which we delight; for if we cannot now rejoice in having God for our portion, where is our meekness for a world in which God is to be all in all, for ever and ever? —Melvill.