The great God is pleased to manifest Himself in Christ, as the God of grace. This grace is manifold, pardoning, converting, restoring, persevering grace, bestowed upon the miserable and worthless. Grace finds the sinner in a hopeless, helpless state, sitting in darkness, and in the shadow of death. Grace pardons the guilt, cleanses the pollution, and subdues the power of sin. Grace sustains the bruised reed, binds up the broken heat, and cherishes the smoking flax into a flame. Grace restores the soul when wandering, revives it when fainting, heals it when wounded, upholds it when ready to fall, teaches it to fight, goes before it into the battle, and at last makes it more than conqueror over all opposition, and then bestows upon it a crown of everlasting life. But all this grace is established and displayed by covenant in the man Christ Jesus, and without respect to Him as living, dying, rising, reigning, and interceding in the behalf of sinners, would never have been known.
God also reveals Himself in Christ as the God of all power. The whole creation proclaims that power belongs unto God. But in nothing will His power be more illustriously displayed than in the wonders of redeeming love! What power is necessary to raise those who are spiritually dead in sin, to soften the heart of stone, to bring light out of darkness, and order out of confusion! Wherever His Gospel is faithfully preached, it is always confirmed by this accompanying power. How quickly, how easily, did He change Saul from a persecutor to an Apostle! Again, how is His power illustrated by the care He takes of all who believe in His Name, according to every one of them seasonable, suitable, and sufficient supplies in every time of need! So that His weak, helpless, and opposed people, are supported, strengthened, and enabled, to hold on, and to hold out, against all the united efforts of the world, sin, and Satan.