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THE ATONEMENT
OF
CHRIST MANIFESTED.
203
or
reckon
up,
but
evenf
rom
presumptuous
sins,
which
are of
the deepest
die
;
Mark.
iii.
28.
"
All
manner
of
sins and
blasphemies,
says
our
Saviour,
"
shall
be
for-
given
unto men."
Look up to this
blessed emblem,
and
you shall
find
this salvation
complete and perfect, and
your
consciences pacified,
under
the agonies
of
your
own
guilty reflections,
through the blood
of
Jesus,,
who
died.
6th
Lesson.
This
emblem
of a
dying sacrifice
is
also
a
refuge,
a support, and a hope
for saints,
under
the
continual
workings
of
original
sin,
under their
daily
in-
firmities,
under
every
new
temptation,
and
the buffet-
ings and charges
of
Satan,
who
is
"
the accuser
of
the
brethren
;"
Rev.
xii.
10.
The
armies
of
the saints have
continually experienced the
virtue
of
this sacrifice,
for
in
all ages they
cast
down
this accuser
by
the blood
of
the
Lamb
;
and here
is
their great
refuge,
under
all
the
vio-
lent
and
repeated
suggestions
and accusations
of
the
great
enemy
of
God and
souls
:
Here
is
indeed a
-sweet
pillow
for
the
souls
of
those
who
have been guilty
of
long
ini=
quities,
to rest
their penitent
and pained consciences,
by
faith upon,
in
a dying
hour;
Heb.
xiii.
8.
"
Jesus Christ
the
same
yesterday, and
to
-day,
and
for ever
:
And
the
virtue
of
his
atonement
always
fresh in the
eye
of God.
Is
there any
poor
soul
here, whose conscience
is
buf-
feted and sorely
tormented with hurrying temptations,
and doubts whether their
repeated
sins
shall
be
par-
donedor
no
?
Go
into the secret chambers
of retirement
and
repentance, whither
the saints before
you have gone,
and
sighed,
and wept
bitterly,
before
God,
and
mourned
over
their
sins
before
the
throne.
Ask
christians
of
long
experience,
'whence came all
their
peace, and
their
hopes
of
freedom from the guilt
of
sin?
And they
will
answer
with
one
voice,
it
is
from
the
blood
of
the
Lamb.
It
would
overwhelmthe conscience to have
a
full
sight
of
these
trans-
gressions
let
in
upon
it,
in
all
their
terror
and
their
dread
ful
condemnation,
if
they
had
not
such a
refuge
as this to
fly
to.
O blessed
for
ever
be
the name
of
Jesus,
who
has
given
us, in his
word,
such
a
sight,
such
a gracious vi-
sion
of
hope and comfort
!
And
a
blessed vision
it
is,
for
the
,poor humble
sinner
to
take
a
look
at
daily, with
an
eye
of
faith.
7th
Lesson,
This
vision
is
appointed
as
an
evidence,