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VI.]
THE ATONEMENT
OF
CHRIST MANIFESTED.
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hand
in all
the
temporal
favours,
and even the national
mercies,
even
of
those who
refuse
to receive
the
special
and everlasting
blessings
of
his
grace
;
besides all
the
consolations and the
joys
which the
saints are
partakers
of
here on
earth, from their
first
calling
to
their
glorifica-
tion,'
must have some
regard
to this
great
sacrifice,
ever
fresh in the
eye
of God.
.5th
Instance
of
the
extent
of
it.
This salvation
spreads
through and
beyöñd
all
the
sins
that
ever
we
commit-
ted,
from
the beginning
of
life
to
this
day
;
and beyond
even all
the miseries
that
mankind ever sustained
by
their
original
fall,
and apostacy from
God
;
had they
all
received
this
grace,
it
is
enough
to
balance them
all.
Ia
the
dignity
of
the divine nature,
united
to
the man
Jesus,
there
is
provision
enough to answer
for
all this
abound-
ing iniquity,
and
price
sufficient to buy all
the blessings
that
God
ever bestowed
upon
his
fallen
creature
man,
and
sufficient
pardon
and
happiness for
all
the sinners
that
are
willing to
submit
to
the grace
of
God, and re-
ceive these blessings in his own
appointed
way:
It
is
only impenitence,
and rejection
of
the gospel,
hinders
the
universal effect
of
it. O amazing
and
blessed
extent
of
this
salvation
!
6th
Instance
of
the
extent
of
it.
I
add, in
the
.
last
place,
the
doctrine
of
the salvation
of
the Lamb
of
God,
slain from the beginning
of
the world,
carries
a
glory
through
all the
perfections and
attributes
of
God
him-
self, which-
might
be
discovered
at
large
in
a
survey
of
the several glories
of
his
nature,
his
justice, and
wisdom,,
his
power and
his
truth,
his
grace and
goodness, in
the
salvation
of
fallen men
:
there
is
never
a
perfection:
of
God that
is
honoured,
but
it
is
in
and
by
this blessed me-
dium, the
death
and mediation of
Jesus
Christ,
the
Lamb
of
God.
IL
Rem. How necessary,
how
solid,
and
important,
is
this
doctrine
of
the
salvation
of
Christ,
by
the
atone
-
ment
of
the Lamb
!
It
is
not a
mere
matter
of
specula-
tion, amusement,
and
discourse
;
but
it
is
of
infinite
concernment
to men
to be
acquainted
with
it;
John
xii.
27.
For
the
purposes
and designs
of
this
hour, even
of
the
atonement
and:
death
of
Christ, the
Lord Jesus,
the Lamb
ofGod,
came
into
this world::
This might
be
illustrated
also
in
marry
particulars
;
as,
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