self these questions:-Am I interested in the atonement and intercession of Jesus Christ? Have I faith in the sacrifice of the great High Priest? Has my soul been sprinkled with his precious blood? Does he plead in my behalf with the Father? Is my name engraven on his heart? Have I any good reason to conclude, that he is even now praying that my sins may be forgiven, that my faith may not fail in the hour of temptation, and that I may be kept from the evil which is in the world? Were I called, at this moment, to recline my head on the pillow of death, could I indulge the comforting assurance that the advocate within the vail, whom the Father heareth always, would present on my behalf the request, Father, I will that he whom thou hast given me bewith me where I am,' and that, in answer to this prayer, my disembodied spirit should be ushered, in perfect holiness, into the immediate and unclouded presence of my covenant God, and into all the glories of the heavenly kingdom? These are solemn questions. Let no one neglect to put them to himself, or hesitate to press them, till, if no favourable answer can be candidly returned, at least such convictions have been awakened, as no occupation can dissipate, no exercise allay but a believing appropriation of the blood and advocacy of the great High Priest of our profession. May the Spirit of all grace, whose prerogative it is to take the things of Christ and show them unto men, be pleased to grant, that the perusal of these sheets may thus prove the means of salvation to many; and to the only wise God, our Saviour, be all the glory. Amen! INDEX. Abel's sacrifice, 97. Absurdity of supposing Christ's atonement to be indefinite, 255. 'All men,' passages in which the phrase occurs explained, 288. Apostolical writings, proof of atonement from, 172. Application of atonement limited, 240. Appointment of God, an element in the value of Christ's atonement, 231. Atonement, doctrine defined, 5. Term explained, 7. Objections Cain, expostulation of God with, 100. Causation, law of, observed in man's salvation, 204. Christ, legally though not personally guilty, 37. Suffered volunta- ginally under no law, 222. Coats of skin used by our first parents, 81. Creation, how connected with atonement, 323. Curse, in what sense Christ made a, 178. Death of Christ voluntary, 227. Definite atonement explained, 237. Divinity of Christ, essential to value of atonement, 208. Efficacy of Christ's death, proved by his intercession, 390. Elect, only for such Christ makes intercession, 351. Example, not sufficient to account for the sufferings of Christ, 169. Extent of Christ's atonement explained, 237. Proved to be definite, 'For,' the preposition, in what sense used in connexion with the work Forbearance of God connected with the atonement, 311. God not changed by atonement, 20. His perfections, 54. His cha- racter illustrated, 304. Goodness of God, 59. Good works, not sufficient to obtain pardon, 71. Guilt, in what sense it belonged to Christ, 37. Heathen sacrifices vicarious, 86. Hebrews, importance of epistle to, 145. 'Himself,' import of Christ's sacrifice being said to be, 209. Holiness of God, 55. Holiness of Christ, 218. Holiness of his life, 219. Holiness of his Honour of Christ, not impunged by his atonement being definite, 265. Humanity of Christ, necessary to the worth of his atonement, 216. Inefficacy, of every expedient but atonement to procure pardon of Infinite intrinsic worth of Christ's death, 233. Innocent suffering for the guilty, no valid objection to Christ's atone- Intercession of Christ, 333. Correlate of atonement, 333. Reality, 333. Term explained, 341. Wherein consists, 342. How per- Judgment, final, affected by atonement, 329. Justice of God, 56. Justice and mercy consistent, 19. Law of God, renders atonement necessary to pardon, 60. Cannot Levitical institutes ought to be studied, 144. Levitical sacrifices, 114. Many of them propitiatory, 118. Not Love of God, not caused by atonement, 17. Displayed in Christ's Matter, of Christ's atonement, 189. Of his intercession, 351. Miraculous conception of Christ, a proof of the spotlessness of his Moral government of God, renders atonement necessary to pardon, Nature of Christ's intercession, 341. Necessity, in what sense affirmed of atonement, 52. Noah's sacrifice vicarious, 88. Objections, to atonement considered, 15. To divine origin of sacri- fice answered, 103. Origin of primitive sacrifice, 89. Not human, 90. Divine, 90. Pardon, strictly gracious notwithstanding the atonement, 27. In- Paschal lamb, a proper sacrifice, 133. Passover, prefigurative of Christ, 133. Patriarchal sacrifices, vicarious, 86. Perfections of God prove necessity of atonement, 54. Illustrated Possibility of those perishing for whom Christ died, passages which Propitiation, term explained, 9. Passages in which applied to work Prophecy, proof of atonement from, 146. Providence, affected by atonement, 323. Punitive character of Christ's sufferings, 153. Ransom, work of Christ so called, 175. Reconciliation, term explained, 8. In what sense affirmed of God, Rectitude of the divine character, an argument for atonement being Redemption, term explained, 8. Work of Christ so called, 175. Repentance, insufficient to procure pardon of sin, 66. Results, of Christ's atonement, 304. Sacrifice, in what sense God said not to desire, 105. Work of Sacrifices, of great antiquity. 79. Universal prevalence, 82. Hea- then, 85. Levitical, 114. of the legal sacrifices, 137. Why the services of believers called sacrifices, 180. Cessation at death of Christ, 136. Salvation, imperfect views taken of by enemies of atonement, 48. Satan, his accusations and temptations included in the matter of Şatisfaction, term explained, 10. Scape-goat, ceremony of, 120, 155. Security of the people of God springs from the intercession of Christ Services of God's people rendered acceptable by the intercession of Silence of scripture, improperly adduced against divine origin of Sin, inadequate views of, taken by the enemies of atonement, 47 Socinian system described, 2. Subjection to the law, different kinds of, 191. Substitution, term explained, 11. applied to Christ's work, 180. Passages in which language of, Sufferings of Christ, an argument for atonement, 160. Punitive Terms explained, 7. Truth of God, 55. Universe of moral creatures,interested in the atonement by Christ,330. -Universal offer of the gospel, 270. Universal terms employed in speaking of the subjects of Christ's Unipue character of Christ's atonement, 44. Use and design, of ancient sacrifices to prefigure Christ, 106. Of Value of Christ's atonement, 204. From what it does not proceed, Vicarious, what the word means, 12. 'World,' Worth of Christ's sacrifice, divine, 209. |