A JUST GOD AND A SAVIOR
"A just God, and a Saviour." -Isaiah 45:21 [KJV] My soul, hast thou learnt, from the teaching of God the Holy Ghost, to contemplate Him, with whom thou hast to do, under these blessed united characters? If thou hast, thou hast found it a blessed and an approved way of opening communion with God, and maintaining that communion alive in the soul. Thou knowest, then, that God, as a just God, can admit of no pardon to sin, but upon the footing of a complete satisfaction; for, without this, His truth and justice would still be violated by unatoned sin. But if thou beholdest God in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, and hast been taught by the Spirit that Christ hath redeemed thee from the curse of the law, being made a curse for thee; that, as thy Surety and thy Representative He hath paid thy debt, and restored that which He took not away; here thou beholdest indeed "a just God, and a Saviour," and hast learnt that precious, blessed truth, how God can be j