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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: trine of our Lord himself, though he, too, was a preacher of repent. ance; and that of the apostles, who, proclaiming that all men every where should repent, not less explicitly preached that all men every where should believe; and that they were justified by faith, and thus had peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. CHAPTER XX. Redemption?Death Of Christ Propitiatory. These points, then, being so fully established, that sin is neither forgiven by the mere prerogative of God, nor upon the account of mere repentance in man, we proceed to inquire into the Scripture account of the real consideration on which the execution of the penalty of transgression ia delayed, and the offer of forgiveness is made to offenders. To the statements of the New Testament we shall first direct our attention, and then point out that harmony of doctrine on this subject which pervades the whole Scriptures, and makes both the Old and New Testament give their agreeing testimony to that one method of love, wisdom, and justice, by which a merciful God justifies the ungodly. 1. The first thing which strikes every attentive, and, indeed, every cursory reader of the New Testament, must be, that the pardon of our sin, and our entire salvation, is ascribed to the death of Christ. We do not, now, inquire in what sense his death availed to these great results; but we, at present, only state that, in some sense, our salvation is ex- pressly and emphatically connected with that event. I lay down my life for the sheep. He gave himself for us. He died, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many. While we were yet sinners Christ died for us. In whom we have redemption through his Mood, the forgiveness of our sins...
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