(2dly.) Our returns are all in him, and
by him also. And well is it with us that it is so. What lame and
blind sacrifices should we otherwise present unto God! He Exod. xxviii. 38; Rev. viii. 3; John xiv.
6; Heb.
x. 19–22.bears the iniquity of our offerings, and he
adds incense unto our prayers. Our love is fixed on the Father; but it is
conveyed to him through the Son of his love. He is the only way for our
graces as well as our persons to go unto God; through him passeth all our desire, our delight, our complacency,
our obedience. Of which more afterward.