Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg Court House [S.C.]) 1877-1881, 1878-08-24

Himself without spot to God to purge
away sin, therefore when He com eth
into the world, lie saith, Sacrifice
and offerings thou wouldsi not but q
body has thou prepared Nc. Tn
burnt Offering and sacrifice forsin
thou hast 10 pleasure. Then said [,
Lo! | come, i'll the Volume Of the
Book it is written Of me to do thy
will, O Sod. II that body thouhust
prepared me-
The word volume includes the
whole scripture, but here it refers to
the opening Of the roll, the coycn.
art made in Eden, that this prepared
body would be the seed of the woman,
where Ii is written II will put enmity
between thee and the woman, be-
tween thy seed and her seed. 1t
shall brusc thy head and thou shalt
brusc his heel" In one sense, the
devil, his angels and bad men arc
included under the term "sccd of the
s.rpcnt," and all true believers with
Christ are included in The term,
seed oithc woman" In lis primary
sense it relates TO Christ md the
Dcvi', and the issue Of the contest is
set forth in the "bruiscd heel" and
the bruised head" She word hccl
refers to the humanity Of Christ,
being His inferior nature, which was
bruised for our transgrcssion, and is
thus set forth on the back part Of the
divine person, and which seems to
have been mystcriousy exhibited to
Moses when placed in the Cleft Rock.
For we must believe that like ST.
! Paul, Moses heard AMI saw ON the
mount that which was both unlawful
rs we'll as impossible for him to utter.
He must have had fuller and more
complete knowledge OF the dispcnsa-
ton III which he stood than appears
i'll his writings. DO we not here
find more than coincidence in max
ing the heel Of Achilles vculncrablc {?
Is il not a proof Of = ,iimly recolIec-
! fsass II; ce tho -.L,.n.,nrt =
In thG7g5!S3.lcn the covenant y.ts :--s5ct Set
forth, and wc must believe ii had its
type by q sacrifice which provided
skins for clothins Adam and Eve.
This being SO it was the first and also
became, rs it were, u type Of all that
followed. However diml y here cx-
pressed, at this God Himself was pre-
sent and it is highly significant that
the work was His and that Adam
may have understood it t, have
typicaliy represented that which, in
time, he would do and be Gods sacri-
flee, and which he Was also called up
on TO continually commemorate. For
though il may appear that Cain and
Abel voluntarily brought offerings,
there must have been appointment is
for the same, from the fact of Gains
not being os the kind appointed 20 I
the language of Gen. t, would sec nj
to set forth that if Cain had been
without fault, like Adam before be
fell, his offering would have L.een ac-
| copied; but if he WAS not, then he was
to offer the same kind rs Abel, sin
offering.
| The nature of these sacrifices and
the relation they have to us are
gradually developed in the volume,
however we'll understood, by the first
offering. Abraham, toward the close
Of bis long life of faith, was IN
manded to offer Isaac, but found n
substitute; but the great God whose
wondrous love provided the lamb
Abraham vouched for and which
John pointed out, could find no sub
stitutc. For our salvation command
cd the sword, Awake O sword,
against my shepherd and against the
man that is my fellow!, saith the
Lord Of hosts !" Job testified that Ii c
knew that his Rcdcemer livcth and
that he should sec God, the saving
one. Jesus himself said that Moses
wroc Of him and that the scriptures
testified OF him. We who stand in tn G
light Of these days see the complete
ness Of their testimony; and among
the many, do we not find in the ords
that head this article "mY suc,Tfce"