…Such a solemn and impressive spectacle of the holiness and justice of God in the punishment of sin, as is presented in the death of God’s beloved Son. An eminent Puritan writer thus strikingly puts it: “Not all the vials of judgment that have or shall be poured out upon this wicked world, nor the flaming furnace of a sinner’s conscience, nor the irrevocable sentence pronounced against the rebellious devils, nor the groans of the damned creatures, give such a demonstration of God’s hatred of sin, as the wrath of God let loose upon His Son!” Divine justice, in its mission of judgment as it swept by the cross, found the Son of God impaled upon its wood beneath the sins and the curse of His people. Upon Him its judgment fell, on His soul its wrath was poured, in His heart its flaming sword was plunged; & thus from Him justice exacted the full penalty of man’s transgression; the last farthing of the great debt. Go to the cross then my reader & learn the holiness of God A.W. Pink/Octavius Winslow/Stephen Charnock
