“In redemption there is but one price, found in one hand, paid by one Redeemer, that price the precious blood, found in the veins of the Saviour, and paid down by him upon the accursed tree.
In every other act of grace the design of the King is to honour the Lord Jesus. You cannot taste the sweetness of any doctrine till you have remembered Christ’s connection with it.
You are washed from every sin, but how? Ye have “washed your robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”
You are sumptuously arrayed from head to foot; ye are apparelled as the King’s sons and daughters, but who is this that hath clothed you?
Are you not robed in the righteousness of your Lord Jesus Christ? Up to this moment you have been preserved, but how? “Preserved in Christ Jesus.”
The Holy Spirit is the author of your sanctification, but what has been the instrument by which he has purified you? He has cleansed you by the water which flowed with the blood from the wounds of the expiring Saviour.
Our eternal life is sure; because he lives, we shall live also. We shall behold the face of God with transport and delight, because he has gone up to prepare a place for us, that where he is, we may be also.
The Father has studiously linked every gospel privilege and every boon of the new covenant with the person of Jesus Christ, that in blessing you he might at the same time honour his own dear Son.”
–Charles H. Spurgeon, The Sword and Trowel: 1865 (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1865), 3–4.
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