PRECIOUS JESUS!
"It pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief." -Isaiah 53:10 [KJV] The depths of wisdom were explored to furnish redemption, and to find a person competent to accomplish it; and when found, the depths of love were broken up, to make it complete. My soul, read over the mysterious volume which the Lord hath in part opened before thee. It cost the Father His thoughts from all eternity, to appoint a plan, by which, consistently with His holiness and His justice, thou mightest be saved. It cost the Father His Son, His dear Son, His only Son, before that thou couldest be redeemed. Jesus must die ere thou canst live. Pause over the subject as it is here expressed. "It pleased the Father to bruise Him." Jesus, who was in Himself holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; He, who knew no sin, must be made sin; He who never merited wrath, must be made a curse. Read on; Jesus must die! and by whom? Not by Jews, nor...