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T1iE
ATONEMENT
OF
CPIRIST.
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them
thus,
"
whom
God
bath
set
forth
to
be
a
propitia-
tion
in his
blood through
faith," and
thus they suppose
the apostle,
in
this very
vorse,
declares
that Christ atoned
for our
sins by his own
blood
:
And
if
this
be
the
true sense
of
it,
it
does
but
more effectually confirm the design
of
my
doctrine,
which
is
to shew
that
Christ,
by
his
bloody
death,
became
a
sacrifice
to
God,
in
order
w make satis-
faction
for
the crimes
of
men.
My method
of
discourse
shall be this
:
I.
To
explain more
at
large the
manner
in which
I
conceive
Christ
to
become an
atonement or
propitiation
for our
sins..
II.
To
give some
reasons
to
prove,
that
he
is
ordained
of
God,
and
set
forth or
offered to the
world under
this
character. And
III.
I
shall shew
what glorious
use
is
made
of
this
doctrine
throughout
the whole
Christian life.
First,
Let
me
explain
the manner
wherein
Christ be-
cornes
an
atonement or propitiation
for
sin.
And to
render
this
point
easy to
the lowest
understanding,
I
would
draw
it out
into
these
propositions
:
PROPOSITION
I.
The great God
having made man,
appointed
to govern
him by a wise
and righteous
law,
wherein
glory and
honour,
life
and immortality are
the'
designed
rewards for perfect
obedience; but
tribulation
and wrath, pain and death,
are
the
appointed recompense
to sinners who
violate
his
law.
This
law
is
in
a
great
measure engraven
on
the
hearts
and consciences
of
all
men
by
nature
;
at least
the
gene-
ral precepts
of it are written
in
the conscience
:
And
mankind,
by
the
light
of nature,
has
some notion: also
of
these penalties,
viz.
the
"
indignation and
wrath
of
God
on those
that
do evil."
And
such as bave
enjoyed
the benefit of divine
revelation,
in
patriarchal,
jewish,
or
Christian,
times,
have
had:
much
clearer
discoveries
there-
of.
This might
be
proved
at
large
from the
discourse
of
St.
Paul
:
Rom.
ii.
6-
-
-16.
compared
with
Rom.
i.
32.
"
The heathens
who
are without
the
law,
have
the work
of
the
law
written
in
their hearts, and
they
know,,
or
might
know,
that
those
'who
break
it
are
worthy of
death."
PROPOSITION
H.
All
mankind
have
broken the law
of
God. There
is
none
righteous;
no,
not
one,
Rom.