Christ is the only means of grace
It has been vehemently objected, thirdly, that Christ is the only means of grace. I answer, this is mere playing upon words. Explain your term, and the objection vanishes away.
When we say, Prayer is a means of grace, we understand a channel through which the grace of God is conveyed. When you say, Christ is the means of grace, you understand the sole price and purchaser of it, or that no man comes to the Father but through him. And who denies it? But this is utterly wide of the question.
1771 text
3. It has been vehemently objected, Thirdly, that Christ is the only means of grace. I answer, this is mere playing upon words. Explain your term, and the objection vanishes away. When we say, “Prayer is a means of grace,” we understand, a channel through which the grace of God is conveyed. When you say, “Christ is the means of grace,” you understand, the sole price and purchaser of it: or, that no man cometh unto the Father, but thro’ him. And who denies it? But this is utterly wide of the question.
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Sermon 16 in the 1771 Works. Malachi 3:7.
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