SECTION I`: 359 ment together : n that God laid on him the iniquities of us all ; that he was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities; died for our sins; was delivered for our offences: bore the sins of many ; bore our sins in his body on the tree; made his soul an offeringfor sin ; was made sin and a curse for us ; suffered, the just for the unjust ; gave himselfa ransom for all ; made reéonciliation for the sins of the people; is set forth as a propitiation :" besides many other phrases used in the case; With the plain senseòf which I cannot hut think any honest mind 'may be safely trusted, though he knew none of the hypotheses built upon it on the one hand, and notwithstanding all the sub- tilties of the Socinians to enervate the force of them on the other. At the same time I find the greatest stress laid upon this doctrine in the express declarations ofscripture. Divine perfec- tions are said to be eminently displayed in it: His love; Rom. v. 6 -9. God rommendeth his love to us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us ;" 1 John iv. 10. "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he lovedus, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sin." His wisdom ; Eph. i. 7, 8. " In whom we have redemption through his blood, the for- giveness of sins according to the riches of his grace, whereinhe has abounded towards us in all wisdom and prudence." His righteousness ; Rom. iii. 25, 26. 0° Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God : To declare, I say, at this time his righte- ousness, that he might be just, and the justifier of hits which believeth in Jesus." It is the scope of the epistle to the He- brews to sliew, that the Mosaical sacrifices were intended to pre- figure it. The great blessings of the cóvenant are expressly made to depend upon it, viz. our redemption. 1 Pet. i. 18, 19. " For as much as ye know, that ye were not redeemed with cor- ruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot." Thepardon of our sins ; Eph. i. 7. " In whom we have redemp- tion through his blood, the forgiveness of sins ;" which words are repeated in Col. i. 14. and again, Heb. ix. 14, 26. " How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your consci- ence from dead works to serve the living God ;" Verse 26. " Once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself." Our access to God ; Heb. x. 19, 20. " Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and livingway which he hath consecrated for us." Our eternal redemption ; Heb. ix. N. " Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his oWn blood he entered in .once into the holy place, having obtained
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