DISC. V.] THE ATONEMENT OF CHRIST MANIFESTED, 189 The saints in that day, shall chearfully and thankfully recount, the awful voice of God in the commands and terrors of his law,, since these were the blessed means of awakening their stupid consciences, and of stirring them to a hasty flight to Jesus and his gospel, as the only and all-sufficient refuge of sinful and guilty souls. Happy- creatures ! who turned their eyes to his grace, when they were. thus self-condemned, and trembling for fear of the immediate execution of the divine threatenings of his law. How glorious and delightful will be the moments of these souls, when they shall review the first glimpses they had by divine grace, of the salvation and hope which was to be found for them, in the encouraging language of the gospel and the promises ? What new songs will arise to. the Redeemer, in this review of those past events ? What echoes of praise to him that sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb, while the inhabitants of the blessed world, are pursuing and tracing out back- ward the ancient steps of the grace of God, towards their recovery from the sin and ruin of the first Adam, and their entering into the covenant of salvation, through Jesus Christ the second ? He was the ever-blessed an- titype of the first Adam, the great Head and Lord or life and everlasting blessedness, to all who are sanctified and saved. Honour and glory, and power, be to his holy name, for ever and ever. Amen. DISCOURSE V. Sermons preached at Bury-street, December, 1744 and 1745. IN WHICH THE EARLY APPOINTMENT OF THE ATONEMENT OP CHRIST IS MANIFESTED. REV. xll[. 8. The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. THE FIRST PART. IN order to make the sense of these words easy and plain, we must take intoour counsel three other texts of the NewTestament : zip.
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