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THE ATONEMENT
OF
CHRIST.
DERV.
XNXV,
Thence
ive
may
reasonably
infer,
that
these
external
de-
filements
of
the body, did
typify
and.
represent
the
moral:
and
sinful
pollutions
of
the soul
;
and
consequently,
that
the external and corporeal
forms
of atonement
and
pur-
gation
were
chiefly designed.
as
types and figures
of
the
blood of
Christ, which
was
a real propitiation
for the
sins
of
the
soul.
Third
Consideration.
-
-
-The most exact and happy
resemblance and conformity, between the method
of
atonement
by
the
priesthood
and-
sacrifice
of
Christ,
and
the
appointed
rite
of
the
levitical
priesthood and
atone-
ment,
very
naturally
leads
us to
suppose,
that
one was
designed
to
figure
out
and foretel the
other;
especially
since
the
scripture
gives us
such
frequent
hints
of
it.
The great
God,
to
whom
all his
own
works
are
known
from
the beginning
of
the
world, had
the
sacrifice
and
priesthood of
his Son
Jesus
ever
in his eye,
when
he
or-
dained
the
Jewish
forms
of atonement. He kept
in
view.
the
blood
of
Christ,
which was to
be
shed for
our
sins,
when
he
appointed
the shedding
of
the blood
of
bulls
and
goats.
He kept
in
view
Jesus
the high- priest, who was
hereafter
to
enter
into heaven in
the virtue
of
his
own
blood, when he
appointed Aaron
to go
into the holy
place, the figure
of
the true,
with the blood
of
the yearly
expiation.
He kept
in
view
the
merit
of
Christ's death,
which
was
to be
applied
to
our
souls and consciences
by
faith, when
he
appointed
the
people
to be
sprinkled
with
the blood
of
the
sacrifices
:
And
therefore the
blood
of
Christ
is
called the blood
of sprinkling;
Heb.
xii.
24.
And when he
ordained
the morning
and evening lamb
for
a
continual burnt
-
offering, he
pointed, though
afar
off,
to the
-
Messiah, the Lamb
of God,
that
must take away
the
sins
of
men:
These
resemblances might
be shewn in
a multitude
of
other instances; but
I
cannot
omit this one,
viz. As
the
killing
of
the beast
was
designed to
hold
forth the
violent
and
.bloody
death
of
Christ, the
great
sacrifice
;
so
the
don
or
remission
is
the thing
sought
;
"
for
without shedding of
blood
is
no remission."
It
is
plain therefore,
that
to a
guilty and
defiled soul or conscience,
every
thing
is
defiled
;
as
Tit.
i.
15.
But when both
the
people and their sacred
utensils
were
sprinkled with blood, it
denotes,
that
all things are sanctified
and pure;
so
those
whose souls
partake of the atonement of Christ, and
whpse sins
are
remitted through
his bloody
death.