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SEEM.
XXXIV.
THE ATONEMENT
OF
CHRIST.
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put
himself into their circumstances,
as
far
as
was
possi-
ble,
with a
due condescendency
to his
superior charac-
ter,
and
that
he
should sustain,
as
near
as possible,
the
very same pains
and penalties
which sinful
man had
in-
curred.
Since
tribulation and
anguish
of
soul and
body,
a
sense
of
the
wrath
of
God, and
death,
were
the
ap-
pointed penalties
of
the
sin
of
man
;
therefore
he
de-
termined
that
his own Son
should
pass
through
all
these:
And
since
the law curses all
that
continue not
in
all
the
commands
of
it,
therefore Christ
was made
a curse
for
us,
that
he
might
redeem
us
from
the
curse
of
the
law,
Gal.
iii. 10, 13.
Hereby
he
gave
a most
awful
and sen-
sible'
demonstration
to
this visible world
of
mankind,
and perhaps,
much more to
the invisible world
of
angels
and
devils,
how
dreadful
a
thing
is
it
to
break the
law
of
a God,
what infinite
evil
is
contained
in
sin,
and
at
what
a
terrible rate it must
be
expiated
and
atoned
for.
PaorosITloN
VIII.
The
Son
of God
being
immor-
tal,
could
not
sustain
all
these
penalties
of
the
law
which
man
had broken, without taking the mortal
nature
of
man
upon
him,
without assuming
flesh
and
blood:
Thus
his
incarnation
was
necessary,
'that
he might be
a more
proper
surety,
substitute, and representative
of man'
who had
sinned:
and
that
hé
might
be
capable
of
suffering
pain, and
anguish,
and death
itself, in
the room and stead
of
sinful men.
It
was
because
"
the children who were
given
to Christ, Heb.
ii. 13, 14.
because these
children
were
partakers
of
flesh
and
blood,
therefore
he
himself
also
took
part
of the
same,
that
through death
he
might
redeem them,"
that
by his own
dying he
might
make
atonement
for
their sins; Heb.
x.
5.
"Sacrifice
and of-
fering
of
beasts,
thou
wouldest
not accept
as
equivalent
for
the
sins
of
men
:
But
a body
hast
thou
prepared
me,
saith
our
'Lord,
that
men
might
beredeemed
by
the of-
fering
of
the body
of
Christ, once
for
all,
ver,. 10.
It
was in
the
'prospect of
the
Son
of God'
becoming
man, by-
taking
flesh
and
blood
upon
him,
that
"
God
snake
thus
to
David,
Ps.
lxxxix.
19.
I
have.exalted one
chosen
out
of
the
people
;
that
is,
out
of
mankind
I
have laid
help
°upon
one
that
is
mighty:
Anti when
-he
was
found
in -fashion as
a
Main,
Phil.
ii. 10.
God
laid
on
him
:the
iniquities
of
us
all
by
imputation,
Ps.
liii.
.5,
6.
even
as
the
sins
and iniquities, and trespasses
of
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