“By eternal law, mercy cannot be extended save there be one who is both willing and able to assume our debt and pay the price and arrange the terms for our redemption. Unless there is a mediator … the full weight of justice untempered, unsympathetic, must … fall on us. The full recompense for every transgression, however minor or however deep, will be exacted from us. … But know this: Truth, glorious truth, proclaims there is such a Mediator. ‘For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.’ (1 Tim. 2:5.) Through Him mercy can be fully extended to each of us without offending the eternal law of justice” (Packer, “The Mediator,” 54–56).