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THE
DOCTRINE
Or
TIM TRINI'TV,
fgEnM,
14.
Now Christ
becomes
our Mediator of reconciliation,
eminently,
these
five ways
:
1.
By
his
incarnation,
that
is,
by
taking our
flesh
and
blood upon him: And
thus
he
became
a
man
amongst
men
The
Son
of
God,
who
is
one
with
the
Father
in
godhead, became one
with us in
human
nature.
"
The
word, who
was
God, and
who was
with
God,
the
same
word was made
flesh,
and dwelt
with us,"
John
i.
1,
14.
When
he
became Emmanuel,
God
with.
us,
he did
not
only unite
God and
man
in his own
person, but
since-
he came
"
in
the
.likeness
of
sinful
flesh,"
Rom.
viii.
S.
he
did,
as
it
were,
exemplify .an
union of peace and
re-
conciliation
between
a
holy
God and
sinful
man.
His
very incarnation
gave
us
a
pledge
of that
friendship,
which he came
to
restore
between
God
the
Creator
and.
bis guilty
creatures,
who
were
before
at
enmity,
and
strangers, both
by
the apostacy
of
our
first
parents,
and
our
own
continued
rebellions.
2.
Christ
came to
reconcile
us to
God;
by
fulfilling
perfect
obedience
to
the
law,
which
we
had
broken, and
by sustaining
the punishment
and death,
which was
due
to our
sins.
This
we
could never
suffer,
and
out
-live
the
suffering;
for the broken
law
threatened
death,
but pro-
vided
no
resurrection. Christ Jesus,
the
Son
of God
taking
flesh
and
blood
upon
him,
took
our
sins also,
and
became
a
sacrifice for
sin
;
"
he
bare our
sins
in
his
body
on the
cussed
tree,"
1
Pet.
ii.
24.
and,
by
his
blood, has made complete
atonement
for
sin,
has
re-
paired
the
honour of
the
law, and
government
of
God,
which
we
had
highly
dishonoured; and
thus he
has
made
a
way for the
exercise
of
the mercy and
forgiveness
of
God, without
any disgrace
to
his
governing
justice
;
and
has
laid
a happy foundation
for
our approach
to
God
the Father, though
we
are,
by
nature, strangers
and
re-
bels,
guilty and condemned.
3.
Christ
ascended
to heaven,
to
present
his
own sa-
crifice before
the throne
of
God,
even
as
the
high
-
priest,
under
the Jewish
dispensation, went into
the
holy .of
holies, to
present
the blood
of
the sacrifice
of
atonement,
and sprinkle
it before the mercy-seat. This
was
the
chief glory and perfection
of
the
priest
-hood
of Aaron,
and, according
to the
apostle
reasonings,
in
the
epistle