The death of Christ was a propitiatory sacrifice and a vicarious atonement for the sins of mankind, atheological essay [by J.C. Cowley].

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Page 16 - For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh : how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God...
Page 25 - Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Page 19 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood ; and I have given it . to you upon the altar, to make an atonement for your souls : for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 26 - For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell ; and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Page 15 - I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand in the latter day upon the earth.
Page 3 - ... 6th. For the shortening of our pains, and keeping us from incurable doubt and perplexity of mind, and an endless inquiry after greater certainty than is to be had, it would be very convenient in the several points that are to be known and studied, to consider what proofs the matter in hand is capable of, and not to expect other kind of evidence than the nature of the thing will bear.
Page 7 - And there is none to which it more forcibly applies than to that, by which he endeavours to prove the notion of a Mediator to be inconsistent with the divine immutability. It is either, he affirms,* agreeable to the will of God, to grant salvation on repentance, and then he will grant it without a Mediator : or it is not agreeable to his will, and then a Mediator can be of no avail, unless we admit the mutability of the divine decrees.
Page 22 - Jehovah hath made to light upon Him the iniquity of us all. It was exacted, and He was made answerable, and He opened not His mouth.
Page 24 - I have many things to say unto you but ye cannot bear them now ; but when He, the Spirit of truth is come He shall guide you into all the truth.
Page 16 - Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and did all eat the same spiritual meat; and did all drink the same spiritual drink, for they drank of that spiritual rock which followed them, and that rock was Christ.

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