The Gift

The gospel offers Christ freely to sinners as the gift, not the sale of God, and even so faith receives him. The believer comes to Christ with an empty hand, not only as an undeserving, but as an hell-deserving sinner; he comes to Christ as to one that justifies the ungodly, Rom. iv. 5. "Unto him that worketh not, but believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

—John Flavel