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THE ATONEMENT
OF
CHRIST,,
[SEAM.
XXXIV.
go.
unpunished.
He that spared not
his
own Son,
when
he stood
hi
the room
of
sinners,
will
never
spare
guilty
rebels
that
persist
in their
rebellions.
Thus
far
we see
how
Christ`became a
sacrifice
of
atonement.
PROPOSITION
IX.
God, the great
Ruler
of
the
world, having received such ample satisfaction for
sin,
by
the
sufferings
of
his own Son,
can honourably
forgive
his
creature
man,
who
Was
the transgressor.
There
is
so
glorious
a reparation
made
to
the
honour of
his
right-
eous
and
broken
law,
that
he can
pardon sinners
with-
out
dishonour
to
himself;
and
his
government.
He
can
glorify
his
justice and
his
mercy
at
once,
in
a
most exu-
berant
and illustrious manner,
since his own Son
has
become a priest
of
atonement, and
offered up.
himself
as
a
sacrifice,
to make
"
propitiation
for
sin
:
He
can
de-
clare
his
righteousness, though
he passes
by
a
"thousand
offences
that
are
past,
and
can
shew
himself
just
to
his
own law
and government,
at
the
same
time
that
he
for-
gives millions
of
sins;
and
is
a
justifier of
him
who
be-
lieved'
in
Jesus,"
Rom.
iii. 25, 26,
PROPOSITION
X.
I
might
add,
in
the
last
place,
since
my
text
intimates
it,
that
as
the
great
God in
his
eternal
counsels,
appointed
his Son
Jesus Christ
to
un-
dertake
this difficult
and
glorious work, for the
salvation
of
sinful
men,
so
in the days
of
the gospel he
has,
in
the most plain and explicit manner,
offered this
rencon-
ciliation
to sinners
who
return
to
God
by
the
mediation
öf
Jesus Christ:
He
has
proposed peace
to those who
are
sincerely desirous to
be,
reconciled
to
God,
and to
have
all énmity done
away
on both sides;
to
those
who
trust
in
the
virtue-
of
the blood
of
Christ,
as
the
foundation
of
this divine peace between
God
and
them,
or
in
the
lan-
guage
of
my
text, to those
who
have faith
in his
blood.
But let
it
be
remembered,
that
this desire
to
be
recon-
ciled,
must
proceed. frorn
a painful
sense
of
sin,
that
makes
a
separation
between
God
and
the soul
:
This
im-
plies sincere
repentance
in
the
nature
of
it.
It
must be
such
a
faith
in
Jesus
and
his sacrifice,
as works power-
fully
by
holy love,
and produces
all
the
good fruits
of
religion
in
the
heart
and
life.
All
faith
is
useless tó
at-
tain
peace
with
God,,
unless
it
carries
in
it
the springs
and
seeds
of
love
and
holiness.
Though
we
are
justi
fied by
faith,
yet
it
must not
be
a
mere bold
presump-
tion, 'but
a
living faith, which will
appear
in its
fruits.