The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, William ... - Adkinshorton.net

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ip Sinners are made righteous Part IF.
our redemption : and therefore alfo ic muft needs proceed from his
free grace in himfelt chat he dothjuftifiw finners,or make chennlirr-
Icfs by his mercyRil atonement, pardon and forgivcnes.
And thu: it pleafeth the Father (of htif-ee^ace) to recofteUe aH
things to himf elf (even) by leftu Chriji Co/, i. 2o.
V.f). JVhom Go J, hath fireord.iined to be a prof itiat ion (or
Kficrifce of Atonement) tljruugh fiith in his blond : by his blond
is meant his {acrifice of Atonemcnr, and by taith in his bloud is
n^Ciin that grace or iuftrim nt ot the fpirit whereby linncrs do
re'.tup:)nChriftsracrificcoi' Atonement as the procuring caufe of
(7.>ds atoncm:n:t »rtheirju!liti:ation : the Apoftle cxplaincs the
matter by another dntence in Rout, ^.ii.bjf rvhom rve Live received
the Atonement I the Apoftle doth imply three things in this fcnt
ence.
i .Tnat Chrill is the mediator by whom linners do receive,
2. that the main thing which they do receive by him, is the Fathers
Atonement. 5. That the means or inftrument by which they
do receive the Fathers a:oncment,is the j^race of faich ;
that istiic
only hand by which the fptrit doth inable finnersto receive the Fathers
atonement for their full and p^teA jurtihcacion.
v. 25. To declare his rghteoufnefs bj puffing over fins that are
pAfifthrough the firbearance ofGod.
I. God declared his rigiit>. oufncs toward ; finners by ordaining
I efiis Chrifl to be a propitiation, s. By ordaining the grace of
faith as the inftrumcnt of the fpirit whrrcby poor finntis might be
inabled to btiievc in tlicmcv-liatori propitiatory facrilke, and to
receive through him tic 1 achers afonement for their righteoufnes:
3. By paflnig over fin- that are pall: this phrafe may well ailnde
toC/ods at'ii.ement when hcfcnt his Angel to p.ifs over the Ifraelitcs
h'uif^s t'\rough the bloud of the Talchal Lamb, which was
fprirkicd upon th*^ ir door polls for the procuring of Gods atonem
nt, tha: fo Gods dcUroying Angel might not kill them, as he
tliJihcE v'pcians
And in t is fenfc T^tth/in the Prophet faid unto penitent
David: the Lord hath a/fo piijfed over thjJinSf thohjh.tlt not dy.
a Sam. 12 .1;. And thus G'od palFed over his tins that wcrepaft,
through the ft irbearance of God: and thi-; title of Gods forbearance
or long 'ui'lermg,
bt]i..ving finncrs,in f'.r. 34-6.
is one of the attributes of his atonement to poot
and jn thii fcnfc alfo David prayed