{"id":42,"date":"2010-06-18T18:23:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T18:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2010-06-18T18:23:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T18:23:27","slug":"i-am-always-amazed-by-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/i-am-always-amazed-by-the-gospel\/","title":{"rendered":"I am always amazed by the gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>What a support to our faith is this, that God the Father, the party offended by our sins, is so well pleased with the work of redemption! And what a comfort is this, that, seeing God&#8217;s love rests on Christ, as well pleased with us, we may gather that he is well pleased with us, if we be in Christ! For his love rests in a whole Christ, in Christ Mystical, as well as Christ natural, because he loves him and us with one love. Let us, therefore, embrace Christ, and in him God&#8217;s love, and build our faith safely on such a Saviour that is furnished with so high a commission.<\/p>\n<p>See here, for our comfort, a sweet agreement of all three persons: the Father gives a commission to Christ; the Spirit furnishes and sanctifies to it, and Christ himself executes the office of a Mediator. Our redemption is founded upon the joint agreement of all three persons of the Trinity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Richard Sibbes<em>, The Bruised Reed\u00c2\u00a0, <\/em>Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2008.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a support to our faith is this, that God the Father, the party offended by our sins, is so well pleased with the work of redemption! And what a comfort is this, that, seeing God&#8217;s love rests on Christ, as well pleased with us, we may gather that he is well pleased with us, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/i-am-always-amazed-by-the-gospel\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I am always amazed by the gospel&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17,46],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology","tag-puritans","tag-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}