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HE ATONEMENT-
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CSERM. XXXV.
.
guage
to
support
my doctrine, and
how
exceeding
hard
to construe
it
to
any
other sense!
It
may
not
be
amiss
to
subjoin
the
witness
of John
the
baptist,
who was
more than a
prophet,
and
the
very fore-
runner
of
the Messiah
:
John
i.
29..
"Behold
the Lamb.of
God
who
taketh
away
the
sin
of
the world." Now a
lamb takes
away sin in no
other
way
than by
dying
as
a
sacrifice.
Thus
our.
blessed
Redeemer
who, once in
the end of
the
world,
appeared
to
put
away sin
by
the
sacrifice of
himself,
as a
great High-priest,
was, as
it
were,
ushered
into
his
office by
a
long train
of
types and prophecies
:
All these
went
before
him,
that
when
his
great
sacrifice
was offered,
it might
not
seem a
strange
thing,
but
might
.
be more
easily
received
by
all
the world,;
who
stood
in
so
much need
of
him,
and. to whom
the tradition
of
sa-
crifices
had been
conveyed from
Noah
;
and especially by
the Jews,
who
had
so
much
notice
of
him
before, by
more
express revelations beyond
what
the heathens could
learn
by,
their broken traditions
of
sacrifice.
V.
Our
Saviour
himself,
among the
rest
of
his minis-
trations
as
a prophet, taught
us the
doctrine
of
atone-
ment
for sin
by his
death, and
that
in
these
three
ways
L
He did
speak
of
it,
though
but
sparingly, in plain
and
express language
to his own
disciples in private.
Mat.
xx.
28.
The.
Son
of
man
cane
not
to
be
ministered
unto,
but
to
minister,
and
to
give
his
life
a
ransom
f
for
many
:
And this he
spoke a
little
after
he
had foretold
his
sufferings, his
crucifixion,,
his
death,
and
his
rising again
the third
da.v,
2.
He
preached
this
doctrine publicly
to
the multitude
in parables
and
figures
of speech;
John
vi.
51, 53. The,
bread
that
I
will
.give.
is my
flesh,
which
I
will give
for
the life
of
the world.
Except
ye,
eat the
flesh
of
the
Son
of
man,
and drink
his
blood,
ye.
have
no
life in
you
:
Which
can
signify
nothing
but
his
dying as
a propitiation
for
sin,
that
we
might
live by
our feeding
upon
his
sacri-
fice,.
or partaking
the benefit
of
it.
John
xii.
23 24.
"The
hour
is
come
that
the
son
of
man must
be
glorified. Ex-
cept
a
corn
of
wheat
fall
into the
ground
and
die,
it
a-
bideth
alone
;
but
if
it
die,
it
bringeth forth
much fruit
;"
verses
32,
33.
"
If'
1
be
lifted up from
the earth,
I
will
draw