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his peaceful, happy realms, these perhaps, would have alone<br />

remained forever the channels of his glory. But a world<br />

plunged in sin, but yet within the scope of mercy, opened a<br />

new theater for the display of attributes till then slumbering<br />

in the divine bosom. God's attitude to those of his<br />

creatures who had been caught in the snare of sin, became<br />

the marvel of heavenly hosts, and the relation Christ assumed<br />

toward a world of lost humanity, overtopped all other<br />

displays of the divine nature the universe had seen. Love<br />

and mercy, justice and truth, blossomed forth into those<br />

fair combinations and vast proportions, before which unfallen<br />

seraphs and the hosts of the redeemed will ever wonder<br />

and adore. p. 18, Para. 2, [<strong>LOOK<strong>IN</strong>G</strong>].<br />

The words of John, first quoted, lift the vail into this<br />

marvelous realm of redemption: "Behold the Lamb of God,<br />

which taketh away the sin of the world." The lamb is a symbol<br />

of sacrifice; and in calling Christ by this title, John<br />

indicates the method by which the work of taking away the<br />

sin of the world is to be accomplished. Nothing but a sacrificial<br />

lamb could do it; not an earthly lamb: for it is<br />

written that the blood of bulls and goats could not take<br />

away sin, but it must be such a one as John here designates<br />

-- the Lamb of God. Nothing but the height of sacrifice<br />

could reach the case. No created being would answer. It<br />

must be one in whom divinity itself was enshrined. p. 18,<br />

Para. 3, [<strong>LOOK<strong>IN</strong>G</strong>].<br />

When John spoke these words to the Jewish people, that nation<br />

had had, for fifteen hundred years, daily set before<br />

them a vivid picture of sacrifice for sin. In sacred, solemn<br />

service, the blood of lambs had flowed upon their altars,<br />

and the smoke of consuming victims had ascended as<br />

grateful incense to heaven -- grateful, because an evidence<br />

of penitence on the part of men. The shedding of blood, the<br />

evidence of forfeited life, was essential to an effectual<br />

sacrifice and offering for sin; for the apostle declares<br />

expressly that "without shedding of blood is no remission."<br />

Heb. 9:22. Remission (literally, a "sending back again")<br />

refers to the removal or putting away of sin; and a moment's<br />

glance at the situation, will show the philosophy of<br />

the statement, and the reason why blood alone avails for<br />

this purpose. p. 18, Para. 4, [<strong>LOOK<strong>IN</strong>G</strong>].<br />

The Author of the universe is not the author of confusion.<br />

Government reigns through all his realms,; but government<br />

is maintained by law; and law, to be law, must have its

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