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DISC.
V.]
THE ATONEMENT
OF
CHRIST MANIFESTED,
189
The
saints in
that
day, shall
chearfully
and
thankfully
recount,
the awful
voice
of God
in
the commands and
terrors
of
his
law,,
since these were
the
blessed
means
of
awakening
their stupid
consciences,
and of stirring
them
to
a hasty flight
to
Jesus
and
his
gospel, as
the only
and
all-
sufficient
refuge
of
sinful and guilty
souls.
Happy-
creatures
!
who
turned their
eyes to his
grace,
when
they
were.
thus self
-
condemned, and trembling for fear
of
the
immediate execution
of
the divine
threatenings of
his law.
How
glorious
and delightful
will be
the moments
of
these
souls, when
they shall review the
first
glimpses they
had
by
divine
grace,
of
the salvation
and
hope
which
was
to
be
found for them, in the
encouraging language
of
the gospel and the promises
?
What
new
songs
will
arise
to.
the Redeemer, in
this
review
of
those
past
events
?
What
echoes
of
praise
to him
that sitteth upon
the
throne,
and
to
the Lamb,
while
the inhabitants
of
the blessed world,
are pursuing and tracing
out
back
-
ward
the
ancient
steps
of the grace
of
God, towards
their
recovery from the sin
and ruin
of
the
first Adam,
and
their entering
into
the covenant
of
salvation,
through
Jesus Christ
the
second
?
He
was
the
ever-
blessed
an-
titype
of
the
first Adam,
the
great Head
and
Lord
or
life
and everlasting
blessedness, to
all who
are
sanctified
and
saved.
Honour and
glory,
and power,
be
to
his
holy name, for
ever and
ever.
Amen.
DISCOURSE
V.
Sermons
preached
at
Bury-street,
December, 1744
and
1745.
IN
WHICH THE EARLY APPOINTMENT
OF
THE
ATONEMENT
OP
CHRIST
IS
MANIFESTED.
REV.
xll[.
8.
The Lamb
slain from the
foundation of
the
world.
THE
FIRST PART.
IN
order
to make the sense
of
these words
easy
and
plain,
we
must
take
into
our counsel three
other
texts
of
the
New
Testament
:
zip.