tive Sacrifices were piacular—The principle established by the common con- sent of mankind—II. That the Jewish Sacrifices were strictly piacular, the doctrine of the entire Christian Church—The opinions of Bihr, Maurice, Jowett, Bushnell, and Young—tThe different kinds of Sacrifice—-The Orthodox doctrine proved, 1. From the occasions upon which the Sacrifices were offered ; 2. The qualifications and sacrificial designations of the victims ; 3. The ritual of the Sacrifice ; 4. From their declared effects ; and 5. From the testimony of the inspired prophets, and of ancient heathens, J ews, and Christians—III. The Sacrifices of the Law were typical of the Sacrifice ist—This proved from the words of Christ ; from the fact that the Old Cectametit Sacrifices are de- clared to be shadows, &c., of which Christ is the substance; and from the fact the Scriptures re sa a assert that Christ saves his es by eoneee offered as a sacrifice for them . Ronaiatetn apr tat echoes :
CHAPTER IX.
ORTHODOX DOCTRINE PROVED BY THE FACT THAT CHRIST EFFECTED SALVA- TION BY ACTING AS THE HIGH PRIEST OF HIS PEOPLE.
position assumed by the advocates of the Moral Theory as to the nature of Christ’s Priesthood stated—The same as to the advocates of the Governmental Theory—I. The priest was ordained to act in behalf of man in those things which bear upon God—That the effect of his work primarily terminated upon God proved from Scripture—II. The work of the priest secured the salvation, not the salvability, of those for whom he acted, and he acted as the repre- sentative of certain persons definitely—III. That Christ was a real and not a metaphorical Priest proved from Scripture—The inferences from these positions deduced..... legals
CHAPTER X.
CHRIST’S SUFFERINGS WERE STRICTLY AND DEFINITELY) WICARIOUS. © |
Bushnell’s perversion of the phrase Vicarious illustrated and disproved—The true
relation of the words Vicarious, Substitute, Representative, and Mediator stated—Barnes’s definition of a Substitute accepted as true—That Christ is in the strict sense the Substitute of his people, and his sufferings vicarious, proved—Barnes’s inconsistency exposed ............e.00 ee
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Passages which assert the fact cited—Different senses of the word “sin” in
Seripture—The Scriptural usage of the phrase “‘to impute sin ” explained and illustrated and proved—The doctrine guarded from abuse, and the mis- representations of adversaries rebuked—The usage of the phrase “‘ bear sin” or
“iniquity,” both in the Old and the New Testament, illustrated and Ee etl Bushnell’s extravagant assertions exposed .. 4 Shida SRO ts roa A AIOE
CHAPTER XII.
THE ORTHODOX DOCTRINE OF THE ATONEMENT PROVED BY THE CHARACTER OF
THE EFFECTS WHICH ARE ATTRIBUTED TO IT IN SCRIPTURE.
T. The effect of Christ’s death as it respects God—The classical and New Testa-
ment usage of the phrase caraAAcooew stated and proved—The classical and New Testament usage of the phrase tAdoxes@at stated and proved—The Biblical usage of 53 explained—II. The effect of Christ’s death as it respects the guilt of sin—The objections of Young answered—The Atone- ment shown to be the effect and not the cause of God’s love for his people— The Orthodox doctrine shown not to involve Tritheism—III. The effect of Christ’s death as it respects the sinner himself—The Biblical usage of the terms ayopagew, Avtpow, AVtpov explained—This language proved not to imply that the Atonement was a commercial transaction—This usage establishes the Orthodox doctrine—The Scriptures combine various modes of conceiving of the Atonement in the same passages, and thus define the species as well as the genus of the Atonement as definitely as any one of the Creeds...........
CHAPTER XIII.
THE TRUE NATURE OF THE ATONEMENT PROVED BY THE NATURE OF THE UNION
WHICH THE SCRIPTURES ASSERT SUBSISTS BETWEEN CHRIST AND HIS PEOPLE.
The common objection that vicarious punishment is unjust considered—I. The
fact that Christ and his people are one proved from Scripture—The substance of all that is revealed as to the nature of this union stated—II. The fact of this union, as thus proved from Scripture, shown to be consistent only with the Orthodox doctrine of the nature of the Atonement...
CHAPTER XIV.
ZHE ORTHODOX DOCTRINE AS TO THE NATURE OF THE ATONEMENT PROVED FROM
WHAT THE SCRIPTURES TEACH AS TO THE NATURE AND GROUNDS OF JUSTI- FICATION.
I. Justification proved to be a forensic act of God as Judge, and thus shown to