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TRi'E
ATONIMENT
OF
CHARM
[SEAM!
.
XVXlV:
ners, and
in
short,
to do
little more than
any
other
di-
vine'
prophet
might have been employed
in,
if the
wisdom
of God
had
so
appointed
it
They suppose
he
yielded
to death that
he
might
seal
his
doctrine.with
his blood,
and might set
us
a
glorious
pattern of
suffering
and
dying,
and then
he led
the
way
to
our resurrection,
by his
own
Wising
from the
dead.
It
is
granted
indeed, these
are
some
of
the designs
of
the
coming
of
Christ,
some
of
the necessary parts
of
the
blessed gospel
:
But it
seems to
me,
that
this.blessed
gos-
pel
is
shamefully
curtailed, and deprived
of
some
of
its
most
important
designs
and honours,
if
a
proper
atone
-
ment
for
sin by
the blood
of Christ
be
left
out
of
it.
Forgive
me,
my
fellow
-
christians,
if
I
spend
a discourse
or
two
on this
great
article
of
our
common,
faith.
I-
think it
of
so
.high-
a
moment,
that
I
would
fain:
pro-
nounce
ái
d
publish
it aloud
in an age
that
verges
towards
infidelity;
I
would glory
in
the cross of Christ,
and en-
deavour
to
support
this
doctrine
with all
my
power.
O
may none
of
those
who
bear
the christian
name,. ever
grow weary
of
it,
or
run
back again to the mere
religion
of
nature,
as
though
we
had no gospel
!
I
shall
not
spin
out
my
thoughts, or employ yours in
a
laborious enquiry
into the connection
of
the
words,
but
take
them
just
as
they
lie,
and
make this plain
sentence
the foundation
of
my
discourse.
IDoctrine
--
-God
bath
set forth
his
Son,
Jesus
Christ,
to
be a
propitiation
for the
sins
of
men.
When
the
apostle
says.
God
bath set
him
forth,
Christ
is
plainly
the person
intended
:
and
this
greek word
wposaE7o,
set forth, denotes either,
1.
That
God bath fore-or-
dained and appointed
his Son
to become
our propitiation
by
his
divine
purpose
in
eternity, which purpose
he
exe-
cuted here in
time
:
Or,
2.
It
intends
that
God
bath set
him forth,
that
is,
proposed and
offered him to
the world
as an
atonement
for the
sins
of
those
who
trust
in
the
me-
rit of
his
death;
for
so
the following words intimate,
God
set
him
forth
for a
propitiation, through
faith
in
his
blood.
I
am
not
solicitous
which
of
these
senses
the.
reader
will
chuse
;
either
of
them perfectly
agrees
with
the
design
of
the apostle.
I
would
just
take a
brief
notice
also,
that
some
inter-
preters
transpose the
words
of
the
text
a
little,
and read