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Sermon. 47extensive philosophical knowledge, or deep metaphysical searchto comprehend it but a way adapted to the poor and illiterate.Gospel requirements of faith and repentance, of obedience, andself-denial, plain, Gospel ordinances and duties are all plain.How plain are Christ's addresses; how adapted are all theessential portions of the blessed Scriptures to make men wiseunto salvation. (4) It is a safe way_CC no lion shall be there."Satan may invite and try to allure us from the way; but hecannot intercept us while walking in it. No, God protects it;lIe is the shield, the refuge, and the fortress of His people.IVho shall harm us, if God be for us '/H. vVe shall observe in the second place the character of thetravellers. The people referred to are stated to be returningfrom one place to another, in short, they are travellers. Fromthe text we see that they are a redeemed people. The literalIsrael were held in bondage in Babylon. The type representseach individual of the human race as they are by nature. Theywere born in original sin from which proceeds actual sin and areunder captivity to sin and Satan. IiVhen God created manlIe created him righteous and holy, free from sin but the dayt]Jat sin entered into the world and man transgressed the holylaw of God ho became a captive, or the servant of sin, and worsestill by his tmnsgression of the law, he was condemned by thejustice of God to death temporal, spiritual and eternal. Apartfrom the above a,i we have seen he is under the power of death.God in His infinite love and mercy provided a Saviour in Hisown eternal Son. T]ll' Saviour was nono else than His ownbeloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Goel foresaw in a pasteternity, before man was creal:ed, ]Iis future condition. IntllC covenant of grace wlJich God made with His own Son:IS the head or representative of lIis Church the above provisionClll'ist WflS sot ftpftrt as a prophet, priest, and king. lIe wasehosen hy the Fnther to be the Saviour of lost sinners. Christwillingly nnd('l'took the work that was set before Him. As.already stntf'd man lay undel' guilt, condemned by t]w justiceof God. 1lt ol'ller thnt lie would be redeemed there had to be
48 Free Presbyterian Magazine.a sacrifice offen'u up as the Scripture saith, "\vjthull~ theshedding of blood there can be no remission of sill." Christundertook to ll\('et all the demands of justice, and, in OI"c!Clr tomeet the above demands he took unto himself a hUlIIan hudyand soul. He that was God, holy and undefiled, condesc(lndodin taking human nature so that the Eternal God becanll' l\ I·hildof days. .rt was in human uature that the head of our rn(~fell and it was to be in human nature that the demandsJustice were to be met. As the whole human race to a IlIanlay under sentence of death, groaning and sighing as those undl'l"captivity. (2) Redemption from the penalty of the law. Till'first and most obvious consequence of sin is subjection to tll('penalty of the law, "The wages of sin is death." Everysin of necessity subjects the sinner to the wrath and curse ofGod. The first step, therefore, in the salvation of sinners istheir redemption from that curse. Until this is done they areof necessity separated from God. But alienation from Himof necessity involves both misery and subjection to the powerof sin. So long as men are under the curse, they are cut offfrom the only source of holiness and life. Such is the doctrinetaught throughout the Bible, and elaborately in Romans, ch.6 and 7. In effecting the salvation of His people, Christ"redeemed them from the curse of the law," not by a mereact of sovereignty, or power; not by moral influence I'estoringthem to virtue, but by being" made a curse for them." Nolanguage can be plainer than this. The curse is the pennltyof the law. We weI'e subject to that penalty. Christ hasredeemed us from that subjection by being made a curse .corus (Gal. iii. v. xiii.) that the infinitely exalted and holy SOil ofGod should be " accursed" is so awful an idea, that the Apostlejustifies the use of such language by quoting the declaration ofScripture, "Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree."Suffering' and especially the suffering of death judicially inflictedon account of sin is penal. Those who thus suffer have thecurse of the penalty of the law. The sufferings of Christ, andespecially His death upon the cross, were neither calamities~
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