It is well for our souls, especially going through such a world as this, that the Father has thought of us, and the Son come to us, and the Holy Ghost been given to us, and all this not for a small thing. Can we suppose that the blessed Son of God could have given Himself for us for small blessing? It is the heart getting hold of this, the clinging to Him, that delivers from the world. It has put us into a place where the world is crucified to us and we unto the world, not by the law, but by the object that governs our hearts. God has come down into this world and put Himself close to our sins, and has presented His Son to us as an object that fixes our hearts and affections, and takes them into heaven with Himself. (J. N. D.)