An Entrance into Heaven
Reflect on these words about the passion of King Jesus:
The obedience of Christ has a twofold efficacy, satisfactory and meritorious;
the former by which we are freed from the punishments incurred by sin; the latter by which (through the remission of sin) a right to eternal life and salvation is acquired for us.
For as sin has brought upon us two evils — the loss of life and exposure to death — so redemption must procure the two opposite benefits — deliverance from death and a right to life, escape from hell and an entrance into heaven.
