Hayden Mills’s Reviews > The Wonderful Works of God > Status Update

"The Covenant of Grace is not the discarding but rather the fulfilling of the Covenant of works. In our Stead Christ fulfills the requirement which God by reason of the Covenant of Works can bring to bear on us."

" law and gospel should go together, as in the scriptures, so also in preaching and teaching, and Doctrine and in life... What the law demands of us is given us in the gospel for nothing."

Love this quote about how believers are in Christ:

"They live in him as the fish lives in water, the bird in the air, the man in his vocation, the scholar in his study."

"At the creation the morning stars sang together and all the children of God rejoiced. At the birth of Christ the multitude of heavenly hosts raise the Jubilee of God's good will. On the birthday of the church that church itself sings the wonderful works of God in myriad tones."

"In the church there is nothing, no gift, no power, no office, no ministry, no faith, no hope, no love, no salvation except as it comes from Christ."

"The resurrection of Christ is a fountain of good for His church and for the whole world. It is the Amen of the Father upon the Finished of the Son."

"Because of the abundant adequacy of Christ's sacrifice for the whole world, the gospel of reconciliation must also be preached all Creatures... however much we must hold to the absolute universality of the preaching of the gospel and of the offer of grace, we are not to infer from it that the benefits of Christ were achieved for every individual person... the benefits of Christ's work always relates to the church."

"We do not understand the substitutionary suffering of Christ, because we... cannot come anywhere near calculating what love enables one to do, and what eternal, infinite, divine love can achieve.... we need only believe it gratefully, rest in it, and glory and rejoice in it."

Excellent chapter on Christology. No kenoticism here!

"His Sonship is not based on His mission, but His mission is based on His sonship"