Safe Through the Blood of Jesus

54 SAFE THROUGH THE BLOOD
your name and address, but it says, “Whosoever,”
that takes you in; it says, “all,”
that takes you in; it says “if amy,” that
takes you in, What can be surer or freer than
that ?”
“We glory, “ says another, “in any name of
reproach (as the honourable reproach of
Christ) that is cast upon us for asserting
the absolute boundless freedom of the grace
of God, which excludes all merit, and everything
like it.
“We proclaim the market of grace to be
free (Isa. 55. 1-3). It is Christ’s last offer and
lowest (Rev. 22. 17). If there be any price or
money spoken of, it is mo price, no money.
And where such are the terms and conditions,
if we be forced to call them so, we must say,
that they look more like a renouncing, than a
boasting of any qualifications or conditions.
Surely the terms of the Gospel bargain are,
God’s free giving and our free taking. ”
It is quite natural for us, born, as we are,
under the law, and brought up under the
restvaining influences of religion and civilisation,
to suppose that we can be saved only
by conforming to certain rules and fulfilling