Yea, Paul is so delighted with this, that he makes it his
motto, and the token whereby he would have his epistles known, 2 Thess. iii. 17, 18, “The
salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle:
so I write. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.”
Yea, he makes these two, “Grace be with you,” and, “The Lord
Jesus be with you,” to be equivalent expressions; for whereas he
affirmed the one to be the token in all his epistles, yet sometimes he
useth the one only, sometimes the other of these, and sometimes puts them
both together. This, then, is that which we are peculiarly to eye in the
Lord Jesus, to receive it from him, even grace, gospel-grace, revealed in
or exhibited by the gospel. He is the head-stone in the building of the
temple of God, to whom “Grace, grace,” is to be cried, Zech. iv. 7.