Peace Made and Preached

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THOUGH God could not let our sins go unpunished, and we could do nothing to get rid of them, what He did was to send His only begotten Son to be the propitiation for our sins (1 John 4:1010Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. (1 John 4:10)). God is thus at liberty, if I may so speak, to satisfy His own love in receiving us to His bosom. He sought a just and holy ground on which to pardon and save us, and receive us to heaven, notwithstanding our sins, and this He has found in the death of Christ, in the shedding of His blood for sin. He has “made peace through the blood of His cross." This is not something yet to be done; IT IS DONE ALREADY; and God, in His holy Word, tells us it is done. “As God is the Lord Jesus Christ has” made peace through the blood of His cross" (Col. 1:2020And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. (Colossians 1:20)); and now God preaches “peace by Jesus Christ " (Acts 10:3636The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:) (Acts 10:36)). Christ preaches it also.
He " came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh” (Eph. 2:1717And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. (Ephesians 2:17)).