# “God says that the believing man is justified” by Horatius Bonar

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- Published: 2008-12-31T15:07:51-06:00
- Author: tollelege

“With a weak faith and a fearful heart many a sinner stands before the altar. But
it is not the strength of his faith, but the perfection of the sacrifice, that saves;
and no feebleness of faith, no dimness of eye, no trembling of hand, can change 
the efficacy of our burnt-offering. The vigour of our faith can add nothing to it,
nor can the poverty of it take anything from it.

Faith, in all its degrees, still reads the inscription, ‘The blood of Jesus Christ
His Son cleanseth us from all sin;’ and if at times the eye is so dim that it cannot
read these words, through blinding tears or bewildering mist, faith rests itself
on the certain knowledge of the fact that the inscription is still there, or at 
least that the blood itself (of which these words remind us) remains, in all its
power and suitableness, upon the altar unchanged and uneffaced.

God says that the believing man is justified: who are we, then, that we should say,‘
We believe, but we do not know whether we are justified?’ What God has joined together,
let not man put asunder.”

–Horatius Bonar,_ The Everlasting Righteousness; or, How Shall a Man be Just with
God? _(Carlisle, Pa.: Banner of Truth, 1874/1993), 23-4.

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