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A present from a far country, to the people of New England. I. A…A present from a farr countrey, to the people of New England. I. A…
A present from a far country, to the people of New England. I. A great voice from heaven, to these parts of the earth: in an excellent letter full of divine rarities, lately written from a terrible prison in France; / by a pious confessor of the reformed religion, once an inhabitant of this country. ; (With some late remarkables, of the persecution, upon the reformed in that kingdom.) II. The golden bells of the great high priest, heard from heaven, through the land. Or, Meditations, upon the methods of grace, wherein a few faithful persons may be the happy instruments of delivering a land, from all its iniquities & calamities.A present from a farr countrey, to the people of New England. I. A great voice from heaven, to these parts of the earth: in an excellent letter full of divine rarities, lately written from a terrible prison in France; / by a pious confessor of the reformed religion, once an inhabitant of this countrey. ; (With some late remarkables, of the persecution, upon the reformed in that kingdom.) II. The golden bells of the great high priest, heard from heaven, through the land. Or, Meditations, upon the methods of grace, wherein a few faithful persons may be the happy instruments of delivering a land, from all its iniquities & calamities.
Boston: printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1698
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A Brief DISCOURSE, Made unto the Great and General Assembly of the… › Conclusion 3: Conclusion III.
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Secondly; Our Lord Jesus Christ, being thus Offered a Real and Proper Sacrifice, did by His Deadly Sufferings make an Expiation for our Sins. The Sorrows of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⟨p. 32⟩when He became a Man of Sorrows, fully answered the Intentions of an Expiatory Sacrifice.
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Did an Expiatory Sacrifice Bear the Sins of the People? This was the meaning of that Usage, in Lev. 1.4. He shall put his Hand on the Head of the Burnt Offering, and it shall be Accepted for Him. Thus, as the Hebrew Doctors tell us, they Transferred their Guilt from Themselves to their Victim. Well,; Such a Sacrifice is our Lord Jesus Christ, as to Bear the Sins of His Elect. It is said, in 1 Pet. 2. 24. He, His own self, Bare our sins, on the Tree. Though our Lord Jesus Christ was not Culpably Guilty, yet He was Penalty Guilty, of our Sins. It is a Rude and a Crude Speech, to say, That Christ was the Greatest Sinner in the World; For, Christ never was a Sinner; If He had been a Sinner He could not have been a Saviour. But He became a Surety for Sinners, and therein He became Responsible for all our Sins: All our Debts, He took upon Himself.