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THE ATONEMENT
AF
CHRIST MANIFESTED.
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over
the soul,
and
taint.
it
with
guilt
and
shame, when
once indulged.
This
is
a
lesson
for
redeemed
creatures
ever
to
remember,
especially while
we
are within the
reach
of
temptation, and
should keep
us
ever
watchful,
9th
Lesson.
This
vision
may
give
the
believers
in
Christ an everlasting assurance
that
they shall
never
be
separated from the
love
of
God,
which
is
in
Christ
Jesus
our Lord
:
For
he
stands
in
the
midst of
the throne, and
will
keep
his
place
there for ever
and
ever;
Rom.
viii.
S4, 35.
He-
stands there,
if I
may
so
speak, in
his
priestly
garments,
with
the
remembrance
of
his bloody
sacrifice,
before the throne
of
God,
and
is
never
out of
his
sight.
Faith
may
triumph
with holy confidence
in this
view.
Who
shall
condemn}
us
now,
since
Christ
has died,
and
lives for ever, to
maintain and
testify
this
atonement,
which he has
made
for
our
sins by his
death, and
his
rising again
?
"
He
that
was
dead
is
alive,
and
lives
for
evermore. Amen
;"
Rev.
i.
18.
Who
'shall
pretend
therefore
to
separate
us
from the love
of
God,
that
is
so
secured
to us in
and
by
Jesus Christ
?
You
see
plainly
in the
last
verse
of
this
chapter, faith
defies
all
creatures
whatsoever to make
any
division between
God
and the
justified
and holy soul,
while
Jesus
appears
there
in
the
eternal
remembrance
of
his
atoning
sacrifice,
the
poor
creature
here
on
earth
may sometimes be
overtaken with
sin, through the
paver
of corruption, and
blush,
and
fear
to think
of
appearing before
a God of
perfect
holi-
ness
;
but
this vision
of
our redeemer encourages
his
faith,
restores
his
spirit, and
supports
his
hope. And
we
observe
it
is
placed
in
the last
of
the
prophetic
visions,
even in
the
Revelations
of
St.
John,
that
it
may abide
upon the
soul,
and live
in
the
memory
of
saints,
in this
frail and
imperfect state, where they
are
so
often
in
danger of
sinning against
God.
INFERENCES
or
ItEMARKS
drawn from these dis-
courses.
1.
Rem.
Flow
large, how excellent, and how glorious
is
this
salvation
of Jesus
Christ, the Lamb
of
God,
slain
to
take
away the
sins of
the
world
?
And
this may be
made to
appear
in
many
particulars:
ist
Instance
of
the
extent
of
it.
It
is
a salvation
that
reaches
through
all ages,
from
the beginning
to
the
end
of
time, from
the
first sin
of
man
even.
to
the
end
of
all things
:
Those glories
of
the salvation
of
Jesus
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