# “Altogether righteous” by Horatius Bonar

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- Published: 2010-12-21T08:42:33-06:00
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“To be entitled to use another’s name, when my own name is worthless; to be allowed
to wear another’s raiment, because my own is torn and filthy; to appear before God
in another’s person,— the person of the Beloved Son,—this is the summit of all blessing.

The sin-bearer and I have exchanged names, robes, and persons! I am now represented
by Him, my own personality having disappeared; He now appears in the presence of
God for me. All that makes Him precious and dear to the Father has been transferred
to me.

His excellency and glory are seen as if they were mine; and I receive the love, 
and the fellowship, and the glory, as if I had earned them all. So entirely one 
am I with the sin-bearer, that God treats me not merely as if I had not done the
evil that I have done; but as if I had done all the good which I have not done, 
but which my substitute has done.

In one sense I am still the poor sinner, once under wrath; in another I am altogether
righteous, and shall be so for ever, because of the Perfect One, in whose perfection
I appear before God. Nor is this a false pretense or a hollow fiction, which carries
no results or blessings with it.

It is an exchange which has been provided by the Judge, and sanctioned by law; an
exchange of which any sinner upon earth may avail himself and be blest.”

–Horatius Bonar, _[The Everlasting Righteousness; or, How Shall a Man be Just with God?](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1961807025?tag=toletaupanre-20)_(
Carlisle, Pa.: Banner of Truth, 1874/1993), 44-45.

 

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