Thursday, October 21

The terms of the gospel bargain

We proclaim the market of grace to be free (Isa. 55:1–3). It is Christ’s last offer, and his lowest (Rev. 22:17). If there is any price or money spoken of, it is no price, no money. And where such are the terms and conditions, if we are 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 and receiving.

— Robert Traill
Justification Vindicated
(Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2002)