God's electing love humbles pride and comforts the weak, teaching believers to trace salvation back to grace alone.
Horatius Bonar writes as a pastor with both seriousness and warmth. He does not want readers merely to collect religious ideas. He wants the soul to awaken before God, to see the reality of sin, to behold the sufficiency of Christ, and to rest in the grace revealed in the Gospel.
The central burden of this tract is this: God's electing love humbles pride and comforts the weak, teaching believers to trace salvation back to grace alone. Bonar repeatedly brings the reader back to the heart of the Gospel - what God has done for sinners in Jesus Christ, not what sinners attempt to build as their own standing before God.
Read this, then, not only for information but for self-examination. What am I resting on? Is my peace grounded in the blood of Christ and the promise of God? Am I fleeing from sin, or quietly making terms with it? Am I living by grace in a way that leads to humility, holiness, and hope?
The comfort of the Gospel is plain. Christ is sufficient for weak sinners. His grace is not too small for our guilt, and his power is not too weak for our need. Come to him by faith, rest in him, and walk before God with humble confidence.