AN EXTRACT.
IT is of the utmost importance to distinguish between the Spirit’s work in us and Christ’s work for us. Where they are confounded one rarely finds settled peace as to the question of sin. The type of the Passover illustrates the distinction very simply. The Israelites’ peace was not founded upon the unleavened bread or the bitter herbs, but upon the blood. Nor was it by any means a question of what he thought about the blood, but what God thought about it. This gives immense relief and comfort to the heart. God has found a Ransom, and He reveals that Ransom to us in order that we might rest therein on the authority of His word and by the grace of the Spirit; and albeit our thoughts and feelings must ever fall far short of the infinite preciousness of that Ransom, yet, inasmuch as God tells us that He is perfectly satisfied with the sacrifice for our sins, we may be satisfied also. Our conscience may well find settled rest where God’s holiness finds rest.
W. R.