SOO THE CACIttFICE OF c}IrtIST. eternal redemption for us." And the whole covenant of grace'¡ Ileb. x. 20. " The blood of the covenant wherewith he was .sanctified." lieb. xiii. 20. " The blood of the everlasting co- venant." The only two visible rites instituted under. the New Testament, baptism and the Lord's-supper, are expressly de- ,scribed, as referring to it, and representations of it. Rom. vi. 3. Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus - Christ were baptized into his death? Mat. xxvi. 28. For this is ,rayblood of the New Testament which is shedfor many, for the remission of sins. it is represented as the great encourage- ment to Christians under their guilty fears Rem. viii. 34. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died. And it is often in- culcated as a principal motive to christian practice; Rom. vi. 3 11. " We are baptized into his death, that as Christ'was raised from the dead, we also should walk in newness of life : Our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed : Likewise reckon yourselves to be dead unto sin ; 2 Cor. v. 14, 15. The love of Christ constrained' us, for we thus,judge that he died for all, that they should not live to themselves, but to him who died for them ; Tit. ii. 14. Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himselfa peculiar people zealous ofgood works." It is spoken of as the glory of the christian religion ; 1 Cor. i. 23, 24. " But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness ; but unto them which are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God." It is that which the founders of it, under Christ. chiefly glorified in; Gal. vi. 14. But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. And it is made the chief subject of their preaching ; 1 Cor. ii., 2. But I determined not to know any thing among you save .Tsus Christ and him crucified. Besides this, our actual justification is expressly annexed to our faith in his blood', Rom. iii. 25. In a word, this doctrine is interwoven in the revelation itself with the whole of the christian religion. These things laid together ,would oblige me to conclude this doctrine tobe most fundamental ha Christianity ; even though it had not the first cha- racter annexed to it, viz, an express declaration of scripture that it is necessary to our salvation." Thus much says this learned writer. And as Doctor Evans, who was well known to be aperson of large charity, makes the belief of the propitiation of Christ necessary to salvation, at least to those who have the New Tes- tament in their hands to lead them into all christian truth ; so the late venerable and learned Doctor Whitby, who was no favourer of,the peculiar principlesof John Calvin, nor an enemy to ex- tensive charity, makes faith in the atonement of Christ as ne- cessary as ,Doctor. Evans does. See his preface to the first
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