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Holies with the annual sin-offering was only 

 6 a figure for the time then present.' And he 

 distinctly adds, that Christ, not * by the blood 

 of goats and calves, but by his own blood, ob- 

 tained eternal redemption for us.' 



u The promise'made to our first parents inti- 

 mated a future deliverer, who should remove 

 those evils which had been entailed on man- 

 kind by their misconduct. This was the assu- 

 rance that became to the Israelites the grand 

 object of their faith ; and it was to perpetuate 

 this fundamental article of their hope and belief, 

 that a standing memorial both of the fall and of 

 the promised deliverance was appointed. Now, 

 what memorial could be more apposite, than 

 that of animal sacrifice ? It connected in one 

 view the two great events in the moral history 

 of man, the Fall, and the Recovery : the death 

 denounced against sin, and the death appointed 

 for that Holy Intercessor whose blood was to be 

 accepted as a final atonement. 



" How true it is, that the ways and thoughts 

 of God are not like those of men ! 



" Wonderful in every part of it, but chiefly 

 in the last acts of it, was the awful scene of this 

 stupendous expiation. That the author of life 

 should himself be made subject to death that 

 his sufferings and humiliation should be the ma- 

 nifestation of his glory that by stooping to death 



