Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-05-12
BRANDON, THURSDAY, MAY p, 1886.

the mercy seat must tipify. something else, |
besides the atonement; or else we have at
the same time two types representing one
and the same thing, viz: the atonement
and also we must contemplate Christ as
answering to both these types, at one and
the same time and in one and the same
act. @'..
Here is a confusion of figures, that is
hardly admissible, in sound reasoning
But l see no possible way of obviating
this difficulty, according to the doctrine
laid down in the essay. But setting the
doctrine of our author aside, and main
tanning the doctrine that has long been
maintained, land for aught can see ought
still to be maintained,) we arrive at a
ready solution of this difficulty. By the
sufferings and death of Christ, on earth,
as our mediator, he became our propitia-
ton, or Smercy-seat. This characteristic
in the divine Being, the mercy-seat in the
temple tipifes. After his resurrection,
he ascends on high, and sits down at the
right hand of God as our Great High
Priest Here then, Christ at the right
! hand of God, makes lnterceSSa0n Ey the
merits Of his atoning sacrifice offered on
! Calvary, for the sins Of men. And all
who come to God, through the medium of
Jesus Christ-rcccive the sprinkling of
the blood of Christ; as it is sprink led
upon the mcrcv-seat, that is, Christ; and
we, by embracing Christ, as our atone
ment and Great High Priest, make his
righteousness our own, and thus we re-
ceive reconciliation, forgiveness Of sins,
at the hands of God. 1.-The shaving of
the paschal lamb did not avail, unless its
blood were Sp'inkled. The blood was
shed in order that it might be sprinkled
The sprinkling was necessary to preserve
the Israelites. Neither will the blood Of
Jesus Christ prove of saving efficacy, tn
less it be aqpLied When wrath shall
overwhclm the unb,lieving, in the iudg-
ment ofthc last day, it will he Of no avail
to plead the merit of this great sacrifice,
unless we have approached it for our
selves. Having boldnesS to enter into the
hottest by the blood of Jesus, we must
draw near with a heart Sprinkled from
an evil for an accusing) conscience" -
" ue Llelll vi tuC ICeu6elleI 5 DIOOU is IN
finite, but its efficacy is confined to ITS 0p-
pLicatiOn In his own words, except We
eat my flesh, and drink my blood, we have
no life in you "-[Ro6ert Hail.
The sprinkling of the blood of the vic
tim upon the merey-seat, very fifty repre-
Fsents the application of the Savior's blood
). Ito the hearts of men, when they come to
!, Old .bronob tho NJ odiot;op of bic Cop
But our author may say, if this doctrine
j tbe admitted, what was atonement under
J the Jewish ritual, is not atonement when
made by Christ That is, the manner O.
: making atonement is different in the two
f dispensations." | grant it. And to thi:
/ conclusion we must inevitably come; anc
d this conclusion solves the whole difficulty
I; In the ritual law, reconciliation, pardon o
J, sins, and atonement were the same things
e But in the new dispensation, we hav,
= shown that there is a difference. Thi
: result arises from the character of the twC
o dispensations. One dispensation wa
j ritual; the other is SPIRITUAL When
t, therefore, a man had committed sin, un
h der the ritual, or Jewish dispensation, h
offered a bullock, or Sheep or some 9th
b er animal, to atone for his sin. He lai
st his hand upon the head of the animal 5
e then slew it; then, when every thing wa
'r prepared, the officiating high priest too
e the blood, on the great atonement day, er
b tered within the I'd vail, and there sprink
it led it on and before the mcrcy-seat-an
r atoncment was made, or the sin was TO
he given, IN a rational point Of rleec, IN a
s, cases. But when we look through tt
as rite, to its spiritual meaning we shall fir
- the same thing true, in relation to the ri
lis ual atonement, that is true of the atom
k, ment made by Jesus Christ. That is,
as Israelite could make an offering for 81
at and the priest could sprinkle it upon Il
est mercy seat-and thus make atonement-
st. and still that Israelite, might 90 ava
or with no spiritual benefit, being as bad
ii man, at heart, as he was before Unle
e. he looked through the sign, by faith,
lrs the thing signified, he was in no way be
ole Gifted, except in a temporal point of vie
lch So it is, with the atonement made by Jes
or Christ The whole world, receive me
as or less benefit, in temporal point of vi
eat through the mediation and atonement
If our Savior But no man, receives spin
e. uaI benefit, unless he embraces the alto
ole ment, by faith, and has the blood of CHI
, as applied to his soul. 1t is then only
cv- one sense, that the pardon of sin imr
in diately and invariably" followed
ade atonement, even in the ritual law. A
ory this sense, was the prevailing characteI
Ugh tic of that rite. But in the new dispen
the ton, the order is reversed. And W
ard was chief in the old dispensation, is
the least in the new.
ssus can not conclude these extended
ent, marks, without an expression of my
ugh tives IN engaging in this work of revi
re- ing. 1t has been no part ofmy desig