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DISC.
v.3
THE
ATONEMENT
OF CHRIST
MANIFESTED,
195
cleanse them from sinful defilements
:
And the
Lord
Jesus Christ
at
last
appeared,
or
was set forth hereby,
as
the
great deliverer
from the
wrath
of God,
and
as
typified
under
all
these
figures
and
shadows. Heb.
x.
1
-12.
The
law
having
a shadow
of
good
things to
come,
but not
the
very image
of
the
things,
those
sacri-
fices
were all
imperfect
as
to
the grand
design
;
for
they
could
not
cleanse the consciences
amen
from
guilt be-
fore God Het..
X.
1,
2.
In
this
respect
Christ
alone
was
the true
Sacrifice
;
Heb.
ix.
11, 12.
:
And
this
was
the reason
of
shedding
of
the
blood
of
beasts according to the
law
:
Heb.
ix: 14,
l
5,
22.
For
there
was
no remission
without
blood.
The
blood
of
Christ
by
virtue
of
his
union
with the
true God, had in-
finite
and immortal value in
it.
Christ, the Lamb
of
God,
offered
himself without spot
unto
God,
to
purge
our
consciences from ,dead
works,
(or
from
works
that
deserve
death)
that
we
might serve the living and
true
God
with
acceptance
:
Thus Israel, considered
as
a
national
church, derived
this
advantage
from
our Lord
Jesus
Christ.
And
it
was
with,this view
that
the
national atonement,
or
the bullock
that
was
offered every
year
for
the
sins
of
the
whole
nation
?
Lev;
xvi.
and
xvii
chapters,
attained
its
proper
effect,
and
delivered the whole
nation from
national
guilt, and
that
destruction
which
the
justice
of
God
might have
brought upon
it
for
sin.
5.
It
was
in
the
view
of
this
great
sacrifice, slain
from
the
foundation
of
the world,
that God pardoned the
personal guilt
of
men,
and
forgave
thousands
of
sins
tinder
the Old
Testament, and spared the
guilty,
each
of
them
in
their
day and season, and took away
the,
guilt
of
their
iniquities.
So
David
was
forgiven
his
adultery and
his
murder, crimes
of the
deepest
dye
for which
David
knew
of
no sacrifice
;
Ps.
16.
and for which
no
man
could be
pardoned
or
justified
by
any ceremonies
in
the
Jaw
of
Moses. And
therefore
the
apostle
says
;
Jets
xiii.
38, 39. 'By
this man, even
Jesus
Christ,
there
was
forgiveness
appointed
for those
sins
for
which no
sacri-
fices
were
ordered
by
the
law
of
Moses,
nor
any
sacri-
fices
were offered,
or accepted,
according
to the
levitical
law.
Rom.
iii. 24,
'25
God
has set
him
forth
as
a
propitiation through
faith
in
his
blood
;
to
declare
his
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