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TAE ATONEMENT
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king,
and
continued them
in
his
political favour, or
rector-
ed
them
to
it,
after
some
breach
of
the
Jewish
laws.
'hhis
seems to
be
the
sense
of
the apostle,
Heb.
ix.
13.
"
The
blood
of
bulls and goats sanctifies to
the purifying
of
the
flesh," as well
as
of
many expressions in the books
of
1\Ioses.
And
yet
these
same sacrifices
might make
a
typical
atonement
for
their moral
guilt
in
the
sight
of
(7od,
considered
as
their God,
that
is,
as
the
Lord
of
conscience, and
the
God of
the souls
of
men
:
And all
this
with
a
direct aspect upon
the sacrifice
of
Christ,
the
great
and real
atonement that
was
to come
And indeed,'
the next
Tords?
Heb.
ix.
14.
intimate
so
Much,
"
How
much, more shall the blood
of Christ
purge your
consci
-'
ences
from
dead works
?
that
is,
from -works
of
sin
which deserve death
in
the sight or
judgment
òf
God,.
considered
as
the supreme
Lord of
souls and consciences.
These
sacrifices,
I
say,
could
make
but
a typical
atone
-
ment
for
moral guilt
in
the
sight
of
God, considered as'
their God
;
for
it
is
sufficiently
evident
to any
thinking
mind,
that it
was
not
possible
for'
the blood
of
bulls
and
'goats
to
take
away sin," as
committed
against
a
God
;
Heb.
x.
iv.
And
therefore
the Jews
themselves,
when
they had offered
their chief
sacrifice
of
yearly
ex-
piation, had
not
so
clear,
so full,
and
so.
satisfactory
a
peace
in
their
consciences, as the gospel
of
Christ
be-
stoves
on
Christians
;
The apostle
says;
verse
1,
2.
"
the
corners
thereunto
were
not
made
perfect
;
"
for
if
they had
"
the worshippers once purged, would have
no:
vnore conscience
of
sin,"
or
sense
of
guilt.
"
Wherefore,
when
Christ
came
into the
world, he saith, sacrifice
and
offering,
that
is,
-of bulls
and
goats,
thou
wouldst
not,
for
they
were
not
sufficient,
but
a
body
hast thou
prepared
me
;"
and
for
what end
this
was
done,
the
following
verses tell
us,
that
sinners might be purified from
the
guilty
defilements
of
sin,
"
through the
offering
of
the
body of Jesus Christ
once for
all,
verse
10.
Thus
the blessed God,
who
designed
in
due time
to
make
his own
rSon
an
atonement
for sinners, did early
give some
emblematical notices
of
this divine
atonement
to those
few
who were
taught
to
understand
them And
in
this
manner
he
kept
alive in the world
`
the
hope
of
some such
glorious
future transaction,
which should
be
the ground -work
of peace
between
GOcl
and
men,
hy:
the