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1 I T 106 Zioiis Landmarks. purdoinible; so of cour.-io ,«ia.s partlon^ ' unto himself a peculiar people, \N ith- | to redeem tljcm that wore under the able which shows that some men are 1 out which atonement or ransom price I huv. Again, Heb. 13; 20, Now the greater .sinners than others, if .so j he had no right to purify a single | God of Peace that l)rought again Uiey need a greater atonement, it sinner, ilencc the atonement to re-| from the dead the Lord Je.sus Christ, 'Va.s said ot Mary, She had much lor- : deem and the work of God’s Spirit to iJuit great Shepherd of the sheep given, therefore she loved /nneh.— i)urlfy go parallel in person and luun-: through the blood of the e\-crlasting i hen all this .shows us that every G)er, no more no lcs.s, not one ! covenant or bargain or agreement, nian’.s sins must be iudivKluaily irn- .that is not redeemed is purilied j whoever shed blood ro confirm a cov- [luted to Christ, and that il so, he ! and not one that is redGcmed but | enant orbargainbutJesusChrist.— sulfers more I’or some sinners than for what shall be puritied; for this was | Then the covenant between the Fa- othei's becan.-e .'^ome sinners were ; the end and design of God, for if all G^ier and Son i.'j an everlasting bar- wor.se than otlwTS. lids will, il dn-| are redeemed—where is the peculiar-j gain. Fm .sa3’s God, Jify covenant ]y considered, make the atonement | ity of this peojile ? I'iiis text 1 think shall stand fa.st with him. The cove- iridividual, .special and particular, | good to prove a personal and special nant of ])eace was between tlicm both, according t(.i the amount of sins com- ; atonement. This text further proves | The covenant which was conlirmed mitted by (im individual. Again, i ChrisPs voluntary conduct to make | before of God in Christ. I need not ine.^e sins of man could not be laid | aii atonement or to pay the ransom ' multiply proofs when a thing is so on or imputed to Christ witliout j price oi our redemption ; and if so, | plain in scripture. Now here in this ftod s foreknowledge j I’or I who live | where is the injustice to make him j covenant, bv God’s foreknowledge now near nineteen iiuudre f 3'cars af- , suffer for our sins when he agreed I was {’hrist foreordained to make an this bride to do it though ho bad in covenant e.sponsed his bride—hi:- church—and therefn-e was bound.— Thirdly, beeau.se if I understand the meaning of the word and nature of e.siionsals aeoording to serijiturc it wms a bargain or marriage agreement by two parties to betroth or make an affiance v.'ith, or in plainer words for p.irents, guardians or friends to make a bargain for a young man and wo ter Ohriat’s death—-if no foreknowl edge how was iny sins imjmted to )iim ? or, how did he bare them in Ills own body on the tree? Jfut b}' God’s foreknowledge each and cveiy sin I .should eominit, was then laid or transferred to Christ and demanding at his hands an atone- to do .so before sin wus committed?— ! atonement for sinners. Here Christ And, 1 think had ho not consented | consented and gave him self for ns, to so to do the world would not have i redeem us from inicpiity. Here grace been created, but that Christ agree ing to give him.self for ns, foreseeing was given ns in him before the world began, on his consent to make an wo should fall,in the covenant or bar- I afoiiement for the sins of man. Here God on this i it was that tlio Lord swore .and will gam or agroomeut with inent, or .sn.ti-faction for them. .So fonndatioa stone,the covenant creator ok he V,o.'ld—and if you should then yon are forced to .see that not ! think that I speak at random about one siniH'r's sins are atoned for since ■ a covenant or bargain or agreement CIhrist died, unle.ss you bring in | lot me give a text to .snjijiort what .1 tiod’s foreknowledge of these sins, .so not rejient that he .should be a priest forever after the order of Melelii.sedcc, Here it was that we v/ere cho.sen in Christ before the world began. Here it was that we were predestinated to man while in youth th.at when the\’ come to sufficient age they should b’ married,or become man and wife. So •Joseph was espon.sed to Marv, the mother of Jesus. And general i\' ou that da)' the esj)oused bridegroom give.s to ids intended bride some pres ent, that if she should remain virtu ous tlii.s should be a token of li.C faithfnlne.ss to comply or marry }u>r at .some future time—but if she did not he was at liis liberty. So Jo.seph had a mind to put away ISfarv’s pri\-- ilcge, or not to marry lier though (s;- pou.sed to her, because ho thought she had defamed her character; ami Jo.seph it .seems would tmt liavc married iier the warning had it not been for of the Angel. Thu.' n.-' have said and make it as plain ;us th^; ! the image of his .Son, to be called, jn.s- cheeks on your flicc, 1 Cor. 6: 20 as to transfer them to Chri.st—-even the .sin.s of sinners to the end of the world. .\ud it so, why could not | 7: 28, ye are bought with a price. For ye are bought with a price. Cor. j(od by his foreknowledge before the world began, then and there lay on Chri.st the sins of five men, or five th.ou.sand ? And thi.-^ is the truth of the case according to the scriiiture.— lie was a lamb, as slain from the fountiriu of tlm world, who was do- ,div.Qrc.^l h>y tli^ i^etern^nati! counsel land ibrekno\|’mlge olf G(^l. i^Yon with wicked 'hands have crucified and .slaiti him so that all the sins that tver were atoned for by Christ were laid on him by God’s foreknowledge, kid on Clu’ist before the sin.s were committed, avid that not by the lump, hut every sinner and every individu- .J—some men more and some ]e.ss as it is written; we like shoe.]) went astray, and the Father laid on him the iniquity of us all. The chastisement of our peace was upon liim, and by his stripe? ye are liealed. lie hath made him to be sin for us, lie bore our sins, &e. All which texts sliovv us that the atonement made by Christ originated with God. Now let us have a text to hcln us a little—Titus 2: 14. Who, Je,su,s, gave himself for us that he might redeem from all iniquity and purify What is that jiricc and who is the purchaser? 1 Pet. 8: 1 S — Forasnuioh as you know that yon were not redeem ed with silver and gold, what then ? 19th verse, But with the precious blood of Christ .as a lamb without blemish and without snot. Now I will make my point, versp 20—AFl' wa.s^ fo r(.'o n iti i n c(,l f veriljp^ ' belm=i! foundation of the world, but Was made manife.st in these last time.s, for here you mustsluit your eves if yon can’t see bai'gain or covenant or agreement. For bow can a thing be titled and glorified. Here it was that we were ordained to eterii.al life and appeinted to obtain salvation by .le.sns Chri.st. Here it was that oar names were written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. Here tlie Kingdom wa.s prepared for ns from the fomida- tion of the world. 11 we it wa.s t.hat God gave his Son ]iower over all flesh, to give eternal life to as many as the. Father gave him. Here God jlfomise^l thel^mi tltat Hlj^htf u^nkL make an atonement he should see the travail of his soul and be satisfied.— In M word, in this covenant before the world began, the foundation .stone was chosen and laid, and the balance bought without a bargain ? and how j also eho.sea to be lively stones, to be can a price be paid unless first an | built up a spiritual church, to oiler agreement on the-price and the prop-i up spiritual sacrifice to God. Yea! erty sold aiul bought specified and all things as to creation and redemp- ns unto himself a peculiar people, zeal ous of good works. Now I .say Christ {.'Hve him.self for us first iu covenant fiigagement before the world began rtnd thus in this text I under.sfand ilic whole elinrch of God including those tliat liad gone to heaven before !u; came and tliose that should go to the end of the world, and then ho gave himself actually in time accord ing to bargain—on the cross of his snfi’eriugs to make an atonemtmt or nxieein them from all iniquity. And t-his was done that he might purify particularized to be exclianged from the seller to the buyer. .So in the text we see God the Father is the seller, whose right siuner.s were in by ereati.,n. Clirist, the buyer, the price agreed upon and the jU’icc paid, {laid the {irecions blood of Christ, the pro’^erty .sold at that {jrice, as sin ners, lost .siimer.s, hell-deserving sin ners, hei{)lcs.s .sinner.s, condemned sin ners, .sinners in bondage to law, and subject every moment we live to the wrath of God, without a mediator.— Oh ! how sweet the name of Jesus sounds in a believer’s ear. The last verso carries us back to the date of the bargain or agreement before the foundation cf the world, and also when the price agreed upon was to be paid, manifest in these last times for you ; and these words “lasttimes” mean in the latter part of the Jewish di.spcnsaLlon—that Christ {)aid the price. Therefore it is said—in tiie fullness of the time—that is, at the agreed time God sent forth his Son tion agree. Here before the founda tion of the world it was finished, set tled and s'worn to be sealed and es tablished, as unchangeable as the throne of God, and the great wheel of providence is turning in all its movements to juit on the cap-stone. Then the justice of Jesu.s dying for sinners arises first from his own vol untary consent, as he sa3's: I have j)o\ver to lay down my life, I have |)ower to take it again—and no man taketh it from me. I lay it down of my.self trusting in God’s accepting it or an atonement by the hands of Je- sn.s Christ instead of the sinners.— Because this was the plan on which Abraham chose and betrothed in own mind—Eebecca—for I.suac.Thu-.s licbccca chose and hetrothei in lier own mind one of the daughters of Laban for Jacob. Thus God tlic Fatherclio.se and betiothed in liB own divine mind and foreknowledge some sinners to be a bride for his Son Jesus Christ in the atonement of grace in which lie gave him as a to ken of his faithfulness, the greatest [iresent ever given to an cspou.scd bride; a.s it is written, be gave him self for us, to redeem u.s from all ■’ll iii^uity,.^ This a tqkep love and kithfuh]e.5s, when he tlie elmrch whom lie fnllv intended to marry in time and eter nity. Now, if the betrothed britU- playexl the whore or involved her self in debt while thms espoused and the young man was still willing anti would take her to wife under all those circumstances, where is the in justice to compel him to {i:iy all hi' wife’s debts since all was fbrelcnown and well known before the marriage rite was solemnized ? I see none,-— So Je.sus Christ e.s{)ou.sed his church in covenant contract. In the fall of Adam she played the whore and in volved herself deep in debt to J a u; and justice, and became by j.,., ^voraan of wrath, a vr" Chri.st might, like Jose- the world was created, for it is old er than the world and tiie law \vhich was given after the wor\j Wan could not disannul this covenant €*•■ destroy this bargain. God ^ right to liold his Sou to this fe^^g^in and force him force was not nec^i;y h^, fi^d’ love enough h??. qku^ch~l\ifi man tha: ph, have |ar! away, vet he had i i.... ,, . . -jponsed her, bfesrf bo 1.1J, „o m..,d to, p„t ^ ^ condue^.^ but remaiaii htiftiffik' takes her i^ptw.ithsfaiKlhig all, Jtnd under dphts and irg’.sdo- meanors.^ An.d, tjtp twain says G.pd. shall, i^p.Qne.flfisk.; thus Christ hecqnv, iqj-l thq church, to pay Ia;;, all ht-sr di.sh;(iU0r- q paid diiwy, h,|s own, .spu.j % her spid-, UoiQcl for Wood, lifo,, % . %, ttnj;U,st, s:nfi'ered curse, paid, jhe. peujilty, paitia qbedjjt. pre?ep»i8 an.d^
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