A Bright Hope of Grace

If the law only was preached, it would, by its horrors, harden souls, driven to despair, into a hatred of God, as a severe avenger of sin. But by adding the gospel, which makes a bright hope of grace to shine, even on the most abandoned and wretched sinner, if displeased with himself, he heartily desires it: obstinate hearts come to relent, and to be melted down into a love of God and of his Christ. And therefore nothing ought to be more sweet and dear to us than the most delightful word of the Gospel, in which are brooks of honey and butter, Job xx. 17.
- Herman Witsius, The Economy of the Covenants (Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed), 351.