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HYMN
FOR
SERMON
XXXIV
THE
ATONEMENT
OF CHRIST.
COMMON
METRE.
HOW
is our
nature spoil'd
by
sin
!
Yet nature
ne'er
hath
found
The
way to make the conscience
clean,
Or
heal
the painful wound.
In
vain
we
seek for
peace
with God
By methods
of
our own:
Jesus,
there's nothing but thy
blood
Can bring
us
near the
throne.
the
threat'nings of the
broken law
I
apress our
souls with
dread
If
God
his
sword
of vengeance draw,
It
strikes our spirits
dead.
But
thy
illustrious
sacrifice
Ilath
answer'd these demands:
And
peace and pardon
from
the
skies
Come down by
Jesus'
hands.
Here
all
the ancient types agree,
The
altar and
the lamb
:
And prophets in their
visions
see
Salvation through
his
naine.
'Tis
by
thy death
we live, O
Lord;
'Tis
on
thy
cross
we
rest:
For
ever
be
thy
love
ador'd,
Thy name
fur
ever blest.
SERMON
XXXV
THE
ATONEMENT
OF CHRIST.
nou
.
iii. 25.
Whom God
hath
set forth to be
'a
propitiation,
HAVING
explained the manner
in which
Christ
is
a
propitiation
for
sin
;
I
come in
the
Second place, to propose some reasons to evince
the
truth of
this
doctrine,
namely,
That
God hath ordained
his Son
Jesus
to be
our
propitiation
or sacrifice
of
atone-
ment. And here
I
shall
proceed
by
degrees, from some
apparent
probabilities,
to
more
evident and
convincing
proofs.
I. The
first
reason
I
shall give
for
it
is
this,
that
an
atonement
for
sin,
and an
effectual method to answer
the
demands
of
an
offended
God,
is
the first
great
blessing
which
guilty mankind stood in need
of:
but the
powers
of
nature
could never
procure
it,
nor
could the
light,of
reason
ever
shew
them
how
to
obtain
it
:
Now
it
is
'the
design
of
the gospel
of
Christ
to supply
the wants and
deficiencies
of
guilty nature,
that
is
both impotent
and
blind;
it
is
to
introduce an
effectual
reconciliation
he-