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THE
ATONEMEN
OF
CHRIST..
[sE>3.m.
xx:tIV.
the children
of Israel
were
laid
on the head
of
the
goat
of
old, by
the cópfession
and,
hand
of
Aaron,"
Lev.
xvi. 21.
When
the
guilt
was
thus
transferred
to him,
as
far
as.
it
was
possible
for the
Son
of God
to
sustain
it,
he
then,
became liable
to
punishment
;
and indeed
that
seems
tá
me to be
the
truest
and
justest
idea
of transferred
or
imputed
guilt,
viz. \vlien
a
surety
is
accepted
to
suffer
in
the
room of the
offender,
then the pain or penalty
is,
due
to him by
consent
:
And
as
this
is
the
true
original
and foundation
of
expiatory
sacrifices, as
I
have
shewnt
before,
so
this seems
to be
the foundation
of that
parti-
cular manner, wherein
scripture
teaches
us this doctrine,:
IIe
that
knew
no
sin,
was
made
sin
for
us,
that
we.
might
be
made the righteousness
of God
in him,"
2
Cor.,
His
own
self bore our
sins
in
his own
body
on,
the
_tree,"
1
Pet.
ii.
24.
"
The
chastisement
or
punish-
ment
of
our
peace
was
upon
him,
and
by his
stripes
we
are
healed,"
Is.
lüi.
5,
And
in
many other places of
scripture
we
read
the
same
sort of
language. This
doc-
trine
is
supported
with
great
strength,
by
the most
learned.
and
pious
Dr.
Owen,
in his
short treatise of
the
satisfac-
tion
of
Christ.
Upon
this
account, though
God
the
Father
was never
truly
angry,
with
his
beloved
Son,
yet
it
" pleased the
Father
to bruise him,
when
he
stood
in
the
room,
of
guilty
creatures.
The Father
himself
put
him to grief,
and made
his.soul an offering
for
sin,"
Is.
liii.
10.
Then,
the
SO
of God
began
to
be
sore
amazed,
and
very
heavy.
at
the
approaching
deluge
of
this sorrow,
Mark
xiv. SS.
The
Father
forsook
him
for
a
season, withdrew
his
comfortable
influences,
and
gave him some such
ex-
quisite sight and
sense
of that
indignation and wrath
that,
was
due
to
sin, as filled his holy
soul with anguish,
"
his.
soul
was
exceeding sorrowful
even
unto death,"
Mat.
xxvi.
SS.
while
his
body sweat
drops
of
blood
in
the
gar-
den:
And
at
last
he
poured out
his
soul
to
death,
and.
"
gave
his life
a
ransom for
many
:
he
reconciled,
us
to
G_
od
by
the blood
of
his
cross,"
Col.
i.
20.
Though
we
allow the
human
nature of Christ
to be
the.
highest,
the noblest,
and best
of
creatures, and
in
that
sense might
be
worth ten
thousand of
us;
yet if
sin
has
an,infinite
evil in
it,
then
no mere
creature,
by all
his,