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THE
ATONEMENT
OF
CHRIST MANIFESTED.
[DISC. Y.
I.
1
Pet.
i.
18
20.
Ye know
that
ye
were
not
redeemed
with corruptible things, as
silver and
gold,
but
with
the precious
blood
of
Christ,
as
of
a
Lamb,
without
wish,
and without
spot.
'
Ver. 20.
Who
verily
was
fore-
ordained
before the
foundation
of
the
world,
but
was ma-
nifested
in these
last
times
for
you.
This
shéws
us,
that
this
Lamb
was
Jesus
Christ,
who was offered
a
sacrifice for the
sins
of the
world,
and thereby takes
them away
;
John
i.
29.
It.
Acts
xv.
18.
Known
unto God
are all
his works,
from
the beginning
of
the
world. And
therefore
this
great
work,
of
redeeming sinners
by the
death
of
his
Son
Jesus,
(as
1
Pet.
i,..
20.)
was
also known to
him.
Rom.
iv. 17.
God
quickeneth
the
dead,
and
calleth
those
things.
which
be
not, as
though
they
were:
i. e.
speaketh
sometimes
of
things
not
yet
done,
as_
though
they were done
;
therefore this Lamb
is
said to be
slain
from the
foundation of
the world, because
it
was
by
vir-
tue of
his
death, many
other
things were
appointed.
God
bath
before
the
foundation
of
the
world,
or-
dained.
all things
that
regard
the
salvation and recovery
of
man, from the
ruins of
his fall.
Sometimes
the
holy
scripture
speaks
of
those
things,
which were
Originally
designed and decreed,
as
though they were actually
done, though perhaps
it
was
many ages
afterwards,
,before
these
things had
any actual being.
It
is
in
this
sense,
that our Lord Jesus
Christ,
is
said
to
be
the Lamb
slain,
before the föttndation
of
the
world
;
i.
e.
he
was
decreed and
,
determined
to be
the
Saviour
of mankind;
and for
this
end
he was
appointed
to
be
a sacrifice
of atonement for our
sins,
even before
God
laid the
foundations
of
the
world
:
Eph.
'i.
4,
5.
Ile
appeared
as
the Lamb slain for this purpose,
and
with this
design,
in
the
eye
of God,
who sees all things
in
one
single view,
whether
they
be
things past,
present,
or
to come.
God
the
Father, kept
Jesus
Christ
his Son
ever
in his eye,
in
this view,
through
all his
transactions
with
the children
of
men.
It
is
generally supposed
that
Adam stood
in
the
state
of
innocence
but
a
few
days
at
most,
or
a very
short
time
after
his
creation, though our Lord
Jesus
Christ
came
not
into
this world,
nor
took
flesh
and
blood upon him,
of
the
substance
of
the virgin Mary, till
about
four
thou-
sand years afterwards.
Many
ages
ran out
amongst the