S
&RM.
XXXV
i1
iOP
C3IRIST'S ATONEMENT.
109
'ix.
1?.
Christ
by,
his.
own .blood
entered.
into the
holy
place,
having
obtained eternal redemption
for
,Did
tlrè
cursed guilt
of
our
sins
bring the
Son
-of
God,
down
from
heaven
th
earth,
-did
.it
sniiteahim
to
-
death,
and
lay
him low
in
the grave
Butthe
poorer
of
his
corn
-
:plete
atonement
has
broken
the
bonds
of death
and the
grave
;
this
has
brought
him
back
to
life again;
and
has
=raised
him
from
earth
to
heaven
;
and
by
the sarne blood
of
his
cross
he has
opened
an effectual
way
for
our rising
from
the dead, and
our
final
admission into the: place
of
blessedness. As
Aaron
the
Jewish
high
-
priest might
not
dare
to
venture
into the
holy
of
holies
without
the blood
of
expiation,
so
Christ our great High-priest,
when
he
had once taken
our
sins
upon
him,
might not
ascend to
heaven
into
-the_
presence
of
God,
till in
the language
of
scripture
he
could
carry
his
blood
with
him,
till
'he
could
:show
a
full
atonement.
Now
that
very same
blood.
and
sacrifice which gave
Christ himself
a
joyful
admission
into heaven,
who was
the
great
Shepherd and
the
Re-
presentative
of
his
people,
will
also
give
every one
of
his
sheep
a
safe
and
Orions
entrance
into the presence
of
God. This
ive.
may
hope for
with
a chearful
hear,
when
our
departing spirits are
called
away from this
lower
world. And for the
further
joy of
our
faith,
we
should
remember
also;
that
in
the virtue
of
the same blood
we
shall
be
raised
from
the grave
:
The
grave shall obey
the
voice
of
him
that
died
for
us
;
for
he
has ransomed
us
from
the power
of
it.
Then
the
sJul:and
body
of
every
disciple of Christ
shall
be
introduced
with divine
accept-
ance
to
dwell
where
Jesus
is,
and
to
behold' his:glory
;
John
xvii. 24.
.Reflection..
Why
then art
thou
so
terrified,
O
my
soul, at.
the
thoughts
of,dying? Why
all
these
shudder
-
ings
of.th.e flesh,
and
these agonies'òf
spirit.at
the
appre-
henhiòns
of
death and the:
grave?
Are the sins
of
thy
life
great
and
numerous
?
Do
they
throng
in
upon
thy con
-
science, and:
fill
thy thoughts with
tumult
and
terror
?
Remember the
time, the dark and dismal
hour, when
Jesus
thy
Saviour
bore
all those very sins
:in
his own
bo-
dy
on
the-
tree
:
There
the
demands
of
Divine
Justice
were all answered,
and
sin
has
now no
power to con
-
demn
the saint,
nor
has death
power to .hurt
him
'in
his
asst
interests
;
Rom.
viii:..
34.
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Who
shall
eonderrarr
?