“Our Lord Jesus was the only man that had power over His own life. ‘I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.’ The last virtue and grand effect of this sacrifice is, that that should be in our eyes when we think of our Lord’s priest-hood, He offered a sacrifice, He gave Himself a sacrifice to God of a sweet smelling saviour. The greatest things that ever were done in this world were done by our Lord upon the cross: the law fulfilled, justice satisfied, heaven appeased, God reconciled, the world of the elect redeemed, eternal redemption brought in, salvation in God’s Covenant for us ratified and made unalterable by His blood. This was a great sacrifice and great effects it had.”—Robert Traill.
“My texts since I saw you have been sweet to me, but make me feel myself more ignorant and unwise than ever. I. Sam., 29, ‘The bundle of life’ was indeed pleasant pasture if only I knew how to feed upon it. I thought of the ‘bundle of life’ as that which contained God’s people; electing love, saving purpose, and Everlasting Covenant being the folds of the wrapping. Next the Son’s love, the Son’s merit, and the Son’s power preserving them till called. Then the Spirit’s grace bringing them out of the bundle of death with its four folds, death in sin, death through worldly influence, death from the power of Satan, and death from the curse of the broken law. But by His uniting of them to Christ they are put into the ‘bundle of life,’ folded in the love of God, covered with the righteousness of Christ, and hid with Him in God.”—John Kennedy. (Life of Dr. Kennedy, by Rev. Alex. Auld, page 147).