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OF
CHRISTS
ATONEMENT.
loI
open
my
mouth no'more
to
vindicate myself:
I
am-over-
whelmed
with
this
amazing instance
of
divine love
:
God
has
sent
his
Son to
die
for
rne,
and
is
pacified
to-
ward
me,
for
all
that'
I
have
done against
hihm
O
wretched
creature that
I
am,
that
ever-
I
should rebel
against
a
God
of
stick
compassion
!
Against
a
God;
who
all
this while had such kind designs
towards
me,
and
was
making
his own
way
to
reconciliation and peace, through
the blood
of
his
own
Sun
I
find
now
by
sweet -experi-
once,
what
I
have been often told
by
other
christians,
that
the
most kindly workings
of
true
repentance, arise
from the
sense of
a
and
a
dying
Saviour."
III.
Let
us
use this
atonement of
Christ,
as
our
con-
stant
way
of
access
to
God
in
all
our
prayers. This
is
the only
safe
method
of address
to
the
mercy
-seat
:
It
is
ordained for
this
very
purpose,
to
help
a
sinner
near
to
God
;
Heb.
x. 19,
21, 22.
Having
therefore,
brethren,
boldness
to
come
into.
the
holiest
by
the
blood
of
Jesus,
and having a
High-priest
over the house
of
God,
let
u.t
draw
near
with
a
true
heart. He
is
ascended
to
Hea-
ven
before
us,
he
is
entered
within
the vail
in
virtue
6f
his
sacrifice;
he
has
bespoke acceptance for our persons
before
the throne, and
a
favourable audience for
all
our
.prayers.
Whatsoever
we
ask
of
the
Father,
we
must
ask
it
in his
name,
and especially
in
the
name and
virtue
of
his
great atonement
:
All
the
blessings
that God
has
to bestow,
are purchased
by
his sufferings.
Refection.
"
Pemember,
O
my
soul,
and
be
hum-
ble;
remember thou canst
not
be
a welcome
guest even
at
the
throne of
grace, unless thou
art
sprinkled
with
the
blood
of Jesus. The God.whem
thou
hast
offended,
is
a
great God,
and
a
terrible,
a
God of
holiness, like
a
devouring
fire
;
a
God of
awful majesty
and severe
jus-
tice, who will
by no means
clear the
guiity,
without
'some
recompence for
his
broken
lawn.
Dare
not
to
approach
him
therefore, but
tinder the-protection of
the
blood
of
his Son
;
Christ
is
set forth
'as
our propitiation through
faith
in his
blood.
If
thdu
bring' the
atonement of
Christ in
the hand
of thy faith,
thou
shalt
find
sweet
and
easy
access': And when
thou
art
filled
with
inward sor-
rows,
thou mayest
pour
their
all
out, and
spread
thy
complaints and
thy
burdens before the
eyes
,of
thy
God;
with
inward
consolation
and hope.
II
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