Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1764. Excerpt: ... DISCOURSE VII. Romans tv. 25. Who was delivered for our Offences, and was raised again for our Justification. rTT" HE Manner of Expression here used is difI ferent from what is generally to be met with in other Parts of the New Testament upon the like Occasion. Here we are told that Christ was delivered for our Offences, and raised for our Justification; as if the Remission of our Sins was to be ascribed peculiarly to the Passion and our Justification in the Sight of God to the Resurrection of Christ: Whereas in the Chapter before this, Ver. 25. the Apostle tells us in general, that God hath set forth Christ to be a Propitiation through Faith in his Blood; and in his Ch. v. Ver. g. particularly and exprefly, that, being justified by his Blood, we shall le saved from wrath through him-r and Ver. 10. that we are reconciled to God by the Death of his Son. In the twentieth of the Acts, the Apostle, in his Exhortation ta the Elders of the Church, warns them to feed the Church of God, which he hath purchased with bis own Blood, Ver. 28. To the fame Purpose both St. Peter and St. John speak; the one telling us, that the Blood of Jesus Christ cleansed us from all Sin, 1 John i. 7; the other, that we have been redeemed with the precious Blood of Christ, as of Lamb without Blemi/b and without Spot, i Pet. i. 10. It is the constant Tenor of Scripture, that Atonement for the Sins of the World was made by our great Kigh-Priest upon the Cross; that his Death was our Redemption, and his Blood the Price paid for us. So that, when we consider the Redemption (which includes our Justification) with respect; to Christ, the Author and Finisher of it, it must be aBscribed to his Death and Passion: But, as to ourselves, our Title and Interest in this common Salvation being gro...
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