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(Visibly a Member of the Church- Mystically a Member of Christ.)

THE GREAT CONSUMMATION OF THE CHRISTIAN SCHEME.

He is adopted-made a son and heir. Becomes one flesh.

The seed of Abraham all heirs of the Promises through the Ordinance of Circumcision.

One family. The People of God.

The Christian is the adopted child of God, through the ordinance of Baptism. A Member of Christ's Body, "which is the Church.' Fellow-heir with Christ.

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TABLE II.-THE CHRISTIAN SCHEME-continued.

FALLING FROM GRACE.

THE WORK OF ANTICHRIST, AGAINST WHOM THE CHURCH IS MILILANT.

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THE DOOR LEFT OPEN BY GOD FOR THE RETURN AND

RESTORATION OF MAN TO HIS FAVOUR

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ILLUSTRATIVE TEXTS.

SACRIFICE,

IMPLYING A PRIESTHOOD AND ALTAR,

(Visibly the Blood of the creature—Mystically the Blood of Christ,)

THE MEANS EMPLOYED BY GOD FOR THE

REDEMPTION OF MAN.

THE CHRISTIAN SACRIFICE, PRIESTHOOD, AND ALTAR.

-IN TYPE AND PROPHECY.

Gen. xiv. 18.—And Melchizedec, King of Salem (Peace), brought forth Bread and Wine: and he was the Priest of the Host High God.

Gen. xxvii. 27, 28, 29, and 37.-See the smell of my son is as the smell of a field, which the Lord hath blessed: therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of Corn and Wine: let people serve thee and nations bow down to thee... With Corn and Wine have I

sustained him.

(That the peculiar blessing given to Jacob, and implied in the promise of Corn and Wine, had a typical and mystical meaning, is to be inferred from Numb. xx. 17, where the " fields and vineyards" of the descendants of Esau are spoken of. The "Corn and

Wine," in their ordinary sense, could not therefore have been meant.)

Exod. xxix. 38-44.-Now this is that thou shalt offer upon the Altar; two lambs of the first year, day by day continually. The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even: and with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with a fourth part of an hin of oil; and a fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering. And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meatoffering of the morning, and according to the drinkoffering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the Lord. This shall be a continual burnt-offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee. And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the Tabernacle shall be sanctified by My glory. And I will sanctify the Tabernacle of the congregation, and the Altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to Me in the Priest's office. (See also Numb. xxviii. and xxix. passim.)

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(The peculiar force of the argument deducible from these passages, cannot be shewn by mere quotation : it consists in the meat-offering, and drink-offering, which accompanied all the Bloody Sacrifices of the Jews. These were properly Thank-offerings-they

were man's part in the Sacrifice, whereby the offerer testified his thankfulness for the expiation and remission of his sins, vouchsafed by God through His part of the Sacrifice-the shedding of Blood. They were for this reason called "Sacrifices of Praise," and were sometimes offered separate from,1 but always with reference to the shedding of Blood; while the Bloody Sacrifices were never offered without their appointed Meat-offerings and Drink-offerings.

The Christian's Bloody Sacrifice has been once for all, offered and slain upon the Cross, and is not to be repeated; but the Meat-offering and Drinkoffering for this Sacrifice still continue, separate from, but with direct reference to the Blood of the Covenant, whereby we were sanctified; that is to say, God's part has been done-"It is finished"— or as we should now say, It was finished on the Cross, and cannot be repeated: but our own part is still in operation, and will continue to be so as long as there are men on earth to testify to God their thankfulness, that by His "will we are sanctified through the offering of the Body of Jesus Christ, once for all ;”2 and to have "the Blood of the Covenant, wherewith we were sanctified," "imputed to them."4 In a word, the Meat-offering and Drink-offering of the One Atoning Sacrifice of the Cross, whereby Christ

1 Lev. ii. passim vii. 12, 13; xxiv. 5–9.

2 Heb. x. 10.

3 Ibid. v. 29.

4 Lev. vii. 18.

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