"There is his [God's] throne of justice, where
he judges sinners according to the tenor of the law or broken covenant of
works. At this bar, every unbeliever is condemned already; from this
throne, their final and irreversible doom will pass at the last day...
Before this throne, no living flesh can be justified."
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"Terror and amazement, death and ruin, are the fruits of God’s
appearing to sinners from a throne of glory, or justice."
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"The thrones of many earthly potentates are
reared and built up with violence and oppression; but the throne of God’s
kingdom of grace is established in righteousness. The Son of God, as the
Surety of sinners, submitter to satisfy justice, and to undergo the
judgment and the condemnation of the broken law, by which he brings in
everlasting righteousness; and upon this bottom or foundation the throne
of grace is established, and upon this basis (as Pool reads it) will it
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"God’s administration of grace is founded upon the complete
satisfaction of justice by his eternal Son as our Surety. Or take it thus:
That justice satisfied and judgment executed upon Christ as our Surety, is
the basis and foundation of a throne of grace."
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"The grace of God in pardoning and justifying
the ungodly sinner, is founded upon the propitiatory sacrifice of the
death of Christ; and grace’s administration being built upon this ground,
God is just in pardoning the sinner that believes in Jesus... The
government of grace is founded on righteousness; that is, upon the
righteousness of Christ, by which justice was satisfied in the execution
of judgment upon the Surety." The Throne
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"In one word, then, By this throne of grace we are just to understand
God manifesting himself in our own nature, and dealing with sinners
through Christ according to the grace of the gospel."
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"Israel was a theocracy; the Holy one of Israel
was their King, and the mercy-seat was his throne. It was an important
type of Christ, and the most solemn and sacred thing in all that typical
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"A throne, you know, is a seat of majesty, peculiar to sovereigns. Let
none imagine, that the glory of God is any thing lessened by his sitting
upon a throne of grace, or that less reverence is due to him here, than
upon a throne of glory or justice. Indeed, the boldness of faith is both
allowed and commanded in our approaches to this throne; but this does not
diminish, but increase the soul’s reverence and holy fear."
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"God's voice in the thunder makes the hinds to
calve; but his voice from a throne of grace makes the dead to live, the
dumb to sing, the lame man to leap like a hart: and no wonder, for his
words are spirit and life, yea, words of eternal life."
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"Acts of grace only pass at a throne of grace; acts of mercy at a
mercy-seat. What an air of infinite majesty does God display from his
throne of grace, when, beyond the expectation of men and angels, he issues
forth that royal act of grace declaring rebels exempt from penalty!"
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"Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and
teachers, and all the ministers of Christ, what are they but so many
heralds ordained by the King, who sits upon this throne, to intimate and
proclaim his will of grace to a lost world?"
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