Three hours

"Christ dispatched more work in those three hours He suffered, than ever was or will be done by all creatures until eternity. It was a good six days of work when the world was made, and He had a principal hand in that; neither has He been idle since. But that three hours’ work on the cross was more than all the other. More will not be done in eternity that virtually was done in those three hours. As they say that eternity is all time contracted into an instant, so all time, past and to come, was contracted into those few hours, as well as the merit of them. For He then made work for the Spirit, and indeed for all three persons, to eternity. He did that which the Spirit is writing out in grace and glory forever, and all that ever was or will be done toward the saints was then perfected: ‘He perfected for ever them that are sanctified, by that one offering’ (Heb 10:12,14)." — Thomas Goodwin, A Habitual Sight of Him: The Christ-centered Piety of Thomas Goodwin, ed. Joel Beeke and Mark Jones(Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2009), 63-64

(HT: Of First Importance)