Sin the Occasion of Glorifying God

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Romans 5:16

And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation…

I do believe that sin in itself has the same aspect as affliction — that it makes room for the mercy of God. I hardly dare say what , when speaking of the fall and of the sin of Adam, and looking to all the display of grace that followed it, said. He said, "beata culpa — happy fault," as if he thought that by means of sin the grace of God is so magnified and displayed he might call it a "happy fault." I will not go so far. I scarcely do more than repeat what that great master in Israel once said; but I do say this, that I cannot imagine an occasion for glorifying God equal to the fact that man has sinned. God so loved the world as to give Christ to die for sinners, and how could this have been if there had been no sin? The Cross is a constellation of glory that is brighter than creation itself.

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