O what cause of holy wonder I saw in God’s being a just God yet a Savior. That holy law that had been my terror for months, which had cursed me for every thought, word and deed, I now saw completely honored and righteously fulfilled in Christ.

And how precious were these words, “For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth.” (Romans 10:4) While another text came upon the back of it with so much power, sweetness, majesty and glory that it overwhelmed me with adoration, praise and thanksgiving: “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us; for it is written, cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.” (Galatians 3:13)

I saw, believed and felt that Christ had stood in my law place and stead so that all the wrath and damnation which I had deserved at the hands of a Just God had been laid upon Jesus. I saw that He had stood as my Surety and Bondsman Who had put away all my sins, magnified the law and made it honorable in a Holy Way and that there could be no condemnation from Heaven nor earth nor hell.