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v.
runner into
heaven,
and have the
honour of
redeeming
all the
sons
of God, and bringing them back
unto
the
Father
:
and
he
decreed
him to be
the
great
sacrifice,
for the expiation of the
sins,
of
all
his
chosen
and
favourite
sons
:
He
has
redeemed
them all with
his
Mood.
e.
It
was in
the
view
of Jesus
Christ,
as
the great
Mediator
and sacrifice,
that God
appoiinted any
further
communion,
or
any
favourable communications,
be-
tween himself
and
his
fallen
creature
man,
It
was in
this
view
that
he
appointed, there should
be
any
approach
of
fallen man towards himself
:
It
was in
this
view
he
gave
him
the first promise,
and the first hope
of
mercy,
even
that
the
seed
of the
woman
should
bruise
the head
of
the
serpent
;
Gen.
iii.
15.
by whom
mankind
was
de-
ceived to
their ruin
and destruction
;
and
by
appointing'
Jesus Christ
to be a
sacrifice for
sin
:
It
was
prophesied
that
his
heel,
or the lower
part of
his
nature,
i,
e.
his
body, should
be
bruised, in
order
to
break
the head
of
the
serpent
;
as
it
is
explained
;
1
John
iii. 8.
For
this
pur-
pose
the
So*
of
God was niknifested,
that
he
might
destroy the
works
of
the
devil
;
i.
e.
his
tyranny and
do
minion
over man.
'This
seed
of the
woman,
was the
appointed
sacrifice
far
.this
purpose
;
Gen.
iii. 15.
It
was with this view
that God
enquired after lost man
in
the
garden of
paradise,
in
order
to
recover
and
save hint
by
his
Son
Jesus
;
Gen.
iii.
9.
Adam,
where
art
thou
?
And
he
gave him
the promise
of
recovery
by
this means,
And
as God
afterwards appointed
it,
that
no
man
should
come
to
the
Father
but
by
the
Son
;
John
xiv. 6.
so
he
revealed himself
as
making
his way
towards
fallen Adam,
by
this
man
Jesus,;
and
it
is by him
that
all
that
are
brought
back again
to
God
have
been
appointed
to draw
near
to
him
e'c-er
since;
for he
.
is
the only
appointed
way.
It
is
also
very
probable
that God
might make clearer
discoveries
to our
first
parents,
in
the midst
of
their
ruined
and dismal state,
in
and with
this
first
promise,
than
Moses, the divine
historian, has
given
tts
an
account
of,
because this
was
to
be
the beginning
and
first pledge
of
their hope
of
any acceptance- with
God, and
their
ex-
pectation of
life
and salvation.
Let
me
here speak
-one-
awakening
word to
fallen sin-
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