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THE ATONEMENT OF
CHRIST.
[SEAM.
XXXV.
he
himself
also
took
part
of
the sanie,
that
through
his
own
death
he
might destroy the devil." Heb.
x.
5.
Sa-
crifices
of
bulls
and goats
were insufficient,
but
a body
hast
thou
prepared
me."
Heb.
ix.
26.
"
Once in the
end
of
the
world he
appeared
to
put
away
sin
by
the
sacri-
fice
of
himself."
This
was
the design
of
his
incarnation.
3.
He
makes the
cross
of
Christ, and
Christ
crucified,
to stand
for the gospel
itself,
and
glories
in
it;
1
Cor.
i.
23, 24.
"
Christ
crucified
is
the
wisdom
of
God,
and
the
power
of
God."
1
Cor.
ii.
2.
"
I
desired
to
know no-
thing
among
you
but
Christ,
and
him
crucified."
Gal.
vi. 14.
"
God
forbid
that
I
should
glory,
save
in
the
cross
of
Christ
:"
And
many such expressions he
uses,
as
though
the public
sermons
of
Christ, the example of
Christ, and
the duties
that
he prescribed,
were all as
no-
thing without the atoning virtue
of
his
death, and
his
sa-
crifice on the
cross; for all these would
not
save
us
with-
out
his
dying.
This
is
eminently the
gospel.
Nor
is
the apostle
Paul
singular
in
declaring
this
doc-
trine
of
atonement,
or different
in
his
sentiments from
the other apostles.
You
find
Peter
and
John
saying
the
same things
in
their epistles:
1
Pet.
i.
1$,
19.
"
Ye
were
not
redeemed
with silver
and
gold,
but
with
the
precious blood
of
Christ,
as
of
a lamb
without
blemish."
1
Pet.
ii.
24.
"
Who
his own
self bare our
sins in his own
body on the
tree."
1
Pet.
iii. 18.
"
Christ hath
once
suffer.
ed for
sins,
the
just
for
the unjust, to
bring
us
to
God."
I
John,
i.
7.
"
The
blood
of Jesus
Christ
cleanseth
us
from all sin."
1
John,
ii.
1,
2.
"
Jesus Christ
the righte-
ous
is
the
propitiation
for
our
sips."
i
John,
iii.
16." Here-
by perceive
we
the
love
of
God,
that
he
laid down
his
life
for us."
Rev,
i.
5,
6.
" Unto
him
that
loved
us,
and
washed us
from
our
sins
in
his own
blood,
be
glory
and dominion for ever."
These apostles take
every oc-
casion to publish the same gospel
and the
same promises
and hopes
of
salvation,
by
,
the
death and
sacrifice
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ.
VIII. To
sum
up many arguments
in
one.
These
were the doctrines
that
were
witnessed to the world
by
those amazing
gifts
of
the
Holy Ghost,
which
attended
the gospel.*
The
gifts
of
tongues, the
wonders of pro-
*
It
was
generally agreed
that
these gifts
of
the
Holy.
Ghost
were
never
set in such an
illustrious
light,
for
the
defence
of christianity,
as
in a late