J.C. Ryle
It would have been well for the church of Christ, if the warnings of the Gospel had been as much studied as its promises.

The purpose of our holy and righteous God was to save His church, but their sin could not go unpunished. It was, therefore, necessary that the punishment for that sin be transferred from those who deserved it but could not bear it, to one who did not deserve it but was able to bear it.
John Owen