A Treatise on the Incarnation of the Eternal Word #267653

We are often told that it is an easy thing for God to forgive sin — that there is nothing to prevent him from withdrawing his right to punish the guilty, and that such an act of grace would highly illustrate his goodness, and awaken songs of praise among both angels and men. Nothing, however, can well be more evident than the truth of the very reverse of this. Among men such an act of grace.