For the remission of sins! With humble
joy, I hear these words. Lord Jesus. My
faith sees the cup in Thy holy hands, and
the purple wine shows me Thy blood shed
for me. Without the shedding of blood
there is no remission; but Thou didst shed
Thy blood for me, and it cleanseth from all
sin.

That cup reminds me of the cup Thou
didst drink in Gethsemene, where under the
burden of my sins, being in agony and ear-
nest prayer, Thy sweat was, as it were,
great drops of blood falling down to the
ground! It leads me to Thy Cross, where I
see come forth from the wounds of the sol-
dier’s spear, blood and water! With such a
price was my pardon bought; how can I
doubt that it will be freely bestowed, when,
with a believing heart, I receive the cup
offered to me for the remission of sin.

Blessed be Thy name. Lord Jesus, for this
cup of salvation. I behold it in Thy hands
with joy; I will receive it with a believing
heart. My soul doth assure and comfort
itself with those blessed words: Come, now,
and let us reason together, saith the Lord:
though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be
white as snow; though they be red like
crimson, they shall be as wool!

For the remission of sins! This cup is
the New Testament in Thy blood. It is not
the blood of beasts slain on Jewish altars,
in which there was only a remembrance of
sin made again every year, but no power to
take sin away. That was only the shadow
of good things to come; and those good
things have come in Thee, Lord Jesus!
In this New Testament my faith sees the
glorious reality which was then foresha-
dowed. Here is a better sacrifice. Here is
richer blood. My faith rests not on some-
thing merely promised to be done, but on
that which has been done. I see the true
Lamb of God. I see Jesus the surety of
a better testament. I see the true blood
of Christ, who, through the Eternal Spirit,
offered Himself without spot to God, which
doth purge my conscience from dead works
to serve the living God. In this covenant
Thou dost say: I will be merciful to your
unrighteousness, and your sins and iniqui-
ties I will remember no more.

Shed for many! Blessed words. Patri-
archs and prophets, apostles and martyrs,
confessors and saints, the general assembly
and church of the first-born, the spirits of
just men made perfect, yea, all the glorious
company of the redeemed that have reached
their rest in glory, have all been redeemed
by His blood; and the millions that are still
on their way, are washing their robes, and
making them white in the blood of the
Lamb. If shed for so many, then for me.
If that blood availed for so many, then also
for me. If He has been willing to apply it
to so many, He will apply it to me. He
was found of all these when they sought
Him not; and me He has inclined to seek
Him, much more now seeking Him He will
be found of me.

I believe in the remission of sins. In my
baptism it was promised, signed, and sealed
to me. Though I am still a sinner, yet that
remission is renewed to me in this covenant
of His blood. He came not by water only,
but by water and blood. In receiving the
cup of His blood, I embrace with a believing
heart all the sufferings and death of Christ,
and thereby obtain pardon of sin and life
eternal. Thou who didst wash me with
water, wilt also wash me with blood. And
as I was baptized for the remission of sins,
so I now confess anew my faith in Thy for-
giving mercy, by drinking Thy blood shed
for the remission of sins.

I believe that God, for the sake of Christ’s
satisfaction, will no more remember my sins,
neither my corrupt nature, against which I
have to struggle all my life long; but gra-
ciously bestows on me the righteousness of
Christ, that I may never be condemned be-
fore the tribunal of God.

In this faith and comfortable assurance
Thou wilt confirm and establish my heart,
Lord Jesus, through that cup which Thou
dost give to me in mercy, and which I receive
in faith, for the remission of sins. Thou
wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God, by
Thy blood: I will go to Thine altar, and
take the cup of salvation with exceeding joy.
Thou hast made peace through the blood of
the cross. I will enter into the holiest by the
blood of Jesus.

Now is come salvation and strength, and
the kingdom of our God, and the power
of His Christ: my accusers, the world, the
flesh, and the devil, which have accused
me before God day and night, are cast
down; and I have overcome them by the
blood of the Lamb, and by the word of the
testimony of Jesus. Therefore rejoice, ye
heavens, and ye that dwell in them; and let
the voice of salvation be heard in the taber-
nacles of the righteous; for I shall not die,
but live, and declare the works of the Lord.
O give thanks unto the Lord; for He is
good: for His mercy endureth forever!