acts ii ff iii ft v fl and elsewhere now his appeared to be the article in his destination to lie had for tiie sins of his people and of mankind viii ff xx john i john ii his blood poured out on the cross like that which on the day of the high priest sprinkled on the mercy seat rom iii he the pure lamb by whose blood the believing arc pet i f the eternal high priest by the oft of his own body at once effected that which the high priests were unable to effect by their perpetually sacrifices of animals x if c but the who exalted to the right hand of god could not have been a common man not only was he with divine spirit in a greater measure than any prophet acts iv x not only did he prove himself to be a divine messenger by miracles and signs acts ii but also according as the one idea or the other was most readily he was by the holy spirit and i or he had descended as the and of god into an earthly body john i as before his on the earth he was in the bosom of the rather in divine majesty john xvii so his descent into the world of mortals and still more his submission to an death was a voluntary humiliation to which he was moved by his love to mankind ii if the risen and ascended will one day return to wake the dead and judge the world i xvii he even now takes charge of his church rom john ii in the government of the world as he originally did in its creation xx viii john i col i f in to all this every trait in the image of the as by the popular expectation was with necessary or to nay the imagination stimulated invented new characteristic how richly with blessing and elevation with encouragement and consolation were tho thoughts the early church derived from this view of the christ by the mission of the son of god into the world by his delivery of himself to death for the sake of the world heaven and earth are reconciled v is ff i col i by this most the love of god is securely to man rom v s ft viii if i john iv and brightest are revealed to him did the son of god become man then are men his and as children of god and with christ to the treasure of divine rom viii f the relation of man to go i as it existed under the law has ceased love has taken the place ul the fear of the punishment threatened by the law rom viii iv ft very arc from the of the law by christ s of himself as he suffered a death on which the law had laid a iii is ow is no longer imposed on us the impossible task of satisfying all the cl of the law iii f � a task which as experience shows no man rom i lt � iii which by of his sinful nature no man can i rom v ft and which only him who to fulfil it more and more deeply m the most miserable with himself vii ft he who believes in christ and in tlie of his death possesses the favour of god not by works and of his own but by the free mercy of god is the man who throws himself on that mercy just before god by which all self exaltation is rom iii m as the law is no longer binding on the he being dead to it with christ vii ft as moreover by the eternal and all of christ the and service is therefore the wall which separated the jews and is broken down the latter who before were and strangers to the without god and without in the world arc now invited to in the new and free access is opened to them to the paternal god so that the two portions of mankind formerly c by hostile opinions are now at peace with each other in of the body of christ � stones in tlie spiritual building of hia church ii ft but to have faith in death of christ is to die him that is to die to sin and as arose from t ie dead to a new and immortal life so must the in him arise from the death of sin to a new life of and oft the old man and put on the new rom vi ff in christ himself him by his spirit who those whom he with spiritual and makes them ever more and more free from the slavery of sin rom viii ft nor alone will the spirit of christ those in whom he dwells but also for at the end of their earthly course god through christ will their bodies as he did the body of christ rom viii christ whom the bonds of death and the world could not import of the ufe of s hold has both for us and has delivered the from tjie fear of these dread powers which rule over viii f i xv ff ii f liis not on his death horn iv but at the same time is the pledge of our own future of our share in christ in a future hfe in his kingdom to the of wliich he will at his second advent lead all liis people meanwhile wo may console ourselves that we have in an who from his own experience of the weakness and of our nature he assumed and in which he was in all points tempted as we are but sin knows how indulgence and aid we need ii f iv f the of describing in forms the riches of their faith in christ was early 