All this comes to us in Christ. We participate in the rewards promised to his obedience: _John 20:31_--"_that believing ye may have life in his name_"; _1 Cor. 3:21-23_--"_For all things are yours; ... all are yours; and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's._" Denovan, Toronto Baptist, Dec. 1883, maintains that "grace operates in two ways: (1) for the _rebel_ it provides a scheme of _justification_,--this is judicial, matter of debt; (2) for the _child_ it provides pardon,--fatherly forgiveness on repentance." _Heb. 7:19_--"_the law made nothing perfect ... a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw nigh unto God._" This "_better hope_" is offered to us in Christ's death and resurrection. The veil of the temple was the symbol of separation from God. The rending of that veil was the symbol on the one hand that sin had been atoned for, and on the other hand that unrestricted access to God was now permitted us in Christ the great forerunner. Bonar's hymn, "Jesus, whom angel hosts adore," has for its concluding stanza: "'T is finished all: the veil is rent. The welcome sure, the access free:--Now then, we leave our banishment, O Father, to return to thee!" See pages 749 (_b_), 770 (_h_).
James Russell Lowell: "At the devil's booth all things are sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold; For a cap and bells our lives we pay: Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking; 'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had for the asking." John G. Whittier: "The hour draws near, howe'er delayed and late, When at the Eternal Gate, We leave the words and works we call our own, And lift void hands alone For love to fill. Our nakedness of soul Brings to that gate no toll; Giftless we come to him who all things gives, And live because he lives."
H. B. Smith, System of Christian Doctrine, 523, 524--"Justification and pardon are not the same in Scripture. We object to the view of Emmons (Works, vol. 5), that 'justification is no more nor less than pardon,' and that 'God rewards men for their own, and not Christ's, obedience,' for the reason that the words, as used in common life, relate to wholly different things. If a man is declared just by a human tribunal, he is not pardoned, he is acquitted; his own inherent righteousness, as respects the charge against him, is recognized and declared. The gospel proclaims both pardon and justification. There is no significance in the use of the word 'justify,' if pardon be all that is intended....