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ATONEMENT
OF
CHRIST MANIFESTED.
[`MSC.
institution of the
Lord's
-
supper
;
Mat.
xxvi. 28.
Rev.
i.
5.
wherein
"
the blood
of Jesus
Christ," is
said
to
wash
us from
our
sins.
The
blood of
Jesus
Christ, his
Son, cleanseth
us from all
sin l
John
i.
7.
8.
It
was in
the
view
of
this
"
Lamb slain from the
foundation
of
the
world,
that
there
was
a
way
made,
pro
-
vided,
and prepared, for
our
Lord Jesus Christ to arise
from
the
dead.
The
apostle to
the Hebrews, in chap.
xiii. ver. 20.
is
express
in this
sentiment. "
The God
of
peace
that
brought
again from the
dead
our Lord
Jesus,
that
great
Shepherd
of
the
sheep,
through
the
blood
of
the everlasting covenant
;"
i.
e.
the covenant
of
grace
and
pardon,
which began
as
soon as man
had
sinned, and remains
to
this
day;
even to all everlasting,
to speak peace
and pardon
to
sinners:
Every circum-
stance in
this
part
of
the history of
our
Saviour
was
ap-
pointed
in this
view.
He
died,
and
lay
in the grave for
a
short
season,
to prove
the
truth
and reality
of
his
death;
and
he
arose again, to confirm the
predictions
of
the ancient
prophets
;
for
all
the works
of
God, concern
-.
ing
our Lord Jesus
Christ, and
his
transactions
in
life
and in death, were
known to him from the beginning
of
the
world
;
and
-every
step
of
his
sufferings,
and
his
rising
from the
grave,, was
all
ordained
with
a view
to this co-
venant,
by which he
was
raised
from
the dead
;"
Acts.
xi.
18.
All
the decrees
of
God, and
all
the
predictions
of
the
prophets,
all
the
types of
the
old
Jewish
law,
and
all
the
promises
of God
with
regard
to
his Son
Je.
us,
were
doubtless
appointed,
accomplished,
and
fulfilled,
with regard
to this
great
sacrifice.
The
holy angels, who
were to be employed
in
the
re-
surrection
and,
ascension
of
Christ,
were
doubtless ac-
quainted with
this
glorious event beforehand
;
every
one
of
those holy ones had
their
orders to
be
ready
at
the,
proper
post for these transactions for
his
rising from
the
dead,
and
his
glorious entrance,
as
the
Son
of God,
into
his
heavenly kingdom
;
thousands
of
angels
-were
-
present
there;
Ps.
lxviii.
17, 18.
"
The,
chariots
of
God
are
twenty
thousand, even thousands
of
angels.
The
Lord
is
among them,
as in Sinai,
in the holy
place.
Thou hast
ascended
on high,
thou has led
captivity
cap-
tive,"
&c.
9.
Therefore
was
our
Lord
Jesus Christ
represented
to
the apostle
John
as
"
a
Lamb slain in the
midst
of
the