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DISC.
VT.]
THE ATONEMENT
OF
CHRIST MANIFESTED.
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throne,"
after
his
resurrection, and
his
entrance into
glory
in
heaven
;'
Rev.
v.
G.
that
there might
be
an everlasting
emblem,
and monument,
or memorial,
of
the Lamb
slain
before the face of
God,
for
all the blessed designs
which
God
had
in his view
for,
the salvation
of
his
people,
through
all
the
ages
of mankind, ever
since sin
entered
into the world,
even to
the end
of
time,
and the consum-
mation of
all things
:
That
by this vision
there might
be
before the
eyes
of God
a
perpetual appearance
of
this
foundation of
our
pardon
of
sin,
the
justification
of
our
persons through
the blood
of
Christ, and our
acceptance
with
God
in the heavenly
world. And who
can
tell,
or
who
can
conceive, how
many
and
how
various were
the
blessed
and
glorious ends
that God
designed,
and actually
attained
by
this
representation
?
DISCOURSE
VI.
THE ATONEMENT
OF
CHRIST MANIFESTED.
nay.
xiii.
8.
and
v.
6.
Of the
Lamb
slain
from
the
foundation of
the
world.
In the
midst
of the
throne
stood
a
Lamb
as
it had been slain.
THE SECOND
PART.
TAUS
far
have
we
considered what
are
the
transactions
of
God
in which he
might have
a
regard
to the sacrifice
of
Christ,
represented
so
early as before
the foundation
of
the world.
In
the next
place,
I
proceed to consider-what divine
lessons
of
instruction, or consolation, may be
derived
from
this
vision
of
the
"
Lamb, as
it had
been slain,"
appearing
"
in
the
midst
of
the
throne
;"
Rev.
v.
6.
And
among these
we
may
number
such
as follow
:
1st Lesson.
There
is
hereby
an information
given
to
the inhabitants of the
heavenly world,
that Jesus, the
Son
of God,
who was
made man, has redeemed
.
many
from among the children
of
men, to
be
a
praise unto
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