Daily Devotionals

Golden Treasury

Devotional: July 11th

Mine iniquities are gone over my head as a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me, Psalms 38:4. Divine answer. Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sins of the world. John 1:29. Behold I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, Zechariah 3:4.

Christ thy surety, has taken away thy sins already from thee in one day, by one offering. He having satisfied divine justice, and being cleared and absolved from all sins as the surety, thou hast in him received the same favour. The chief absolution is passed already, of which thou hast also been made partaker in baptism. And though the presumptuous have no sufficient reason to believe the forgiveness of their sins on that account; yet the faithful have none to doubt of it, the word of God removing all their doubts.

Here, sinners, you may heal your wounds,
And wipe your sorrows dry,
Trust in the mighty Saviour’s name,
And you shall never die.

So strange, so boundless was the love
That pitied dying men,
The father sent his equal Son,
To give them life again.

See, dearest Lord, our willing souls
Accept thine offered grace,
We bless the great Redeemer’s love,
And give the Father praise.