“A Christian is an impregnable person. He is a person that can never be conquered.
Emmanuel became man to make the church and every Christian to be one with Him. Christ’s nature is out of danger of all that is hurtful.
The sun shall not shine, the wind shall not blow, to the church’s hurt. For the church’s head ruleth over all things, and hath all things in subjection.
Angels in heaven, men on earth, devils in hell, all bow to Christ.
And shall anything befall them that He loveth, unless for their greater good?
Therefore though they may kill a Christian and imprison him, yet hurt him they cannot.
‘If God be on our side, who can be against us?’ (Romans 8:30)
But God is on our side, and on what grounds?
The God-man hath procured Him to be our friend, He hath satisfied God, and therefore if we believe, we are one with Christ, and so one with God.”
–Richard Sibbes, “Miracle of Miracles,” The Works of Richard Sibbes, Volume 7 (ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart; Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1638/2001), 7: 125.
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