of God, that taketh away the sin of the world ! " Here we see the union of the law and of the Gospel to be precisely such as we have represented it. The lamb was at that very time offered every morning and evening in sacrifice to God for the sins of Israel ; and here was Jesus pointed out as the Lamb that should take away, not the sins of one people only, but of the whole world.
And what was the testimony borne by our Lord himself? Did he not declare, that He was come to "give his life a ransom for many?" Did He not, when he administered the sacramental cup to his Disciples, say, " This is my blood of the New Tes- tament, which is shed for you, and for many, for the remission of sins?"
But what said his Apostles, when the time was come for the full disclosure of the great mystery of Redemption ? They with one voice declare, that " he died the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God;" that we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins ; and that " all who believe in him are justified from all things, from which we could not be justified by the law of Moses." In the Epistle to the Hebrews the parallel between the law and the Gospel is distinctly drawn ; so that nothing is left to fancy or conjecture ; but all is declared on infallible authority to have been accom- plished in him, to the unspeakable advantage of our souls ; since, " if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sancti- fieth to the purifying of the flesh, much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge our con- science from dead works to serve the Living God."
And to whom are we indebted for all this knowledge ? To Jews, from first to last : to Jewish prophets and to Jewish Apostles : yea, the very Saviour himself who effected this salvation, and to whom they all bare witness ; he himself proclaimed it ; he himself displayed its power whilst he yet hanged on the cross; and after his resurrection he gave this commission to