Christ is in every way the cause of the life of grace and of glory. And not only so, the cause, but the root and spring in whom it is. We have it from Christ and in Christ. We have it in Christ as a root, and from Christ as a working cause, and by Christ as a mediator. For Christ procured life at God’s hands by His sacrifice and death. We have it in Christ as a Head, from Him as a cause, together with both the other Persons; and through Him as Mediator, who by His death made way to life, appeasing the wrath of God. So we are reconciled and pardoned by the death of Christ.—R. Sibbes.
Notes of a Sermon.
BY THE LATE REV. JOHN KENNEDY, D.D.
PREACHED 28TH FEBRUARY 1875.
“He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”—Ps. xci. 1.