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Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1829 edition. Extrait: ... both the Victim and the Priest of spotless purity; as constituting him the true Lamb without blemish, "the innocent blood," which "taketh away the sins of the world," because he who offered it had no need of atonement for himself. For instance, "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who, through the Eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot to God, cleanse your bodies from dead works to serve the living God!"--" Such a High Priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners."--In these and many other such passages, in which the personal holiness of Christ is spoken of, and spoken of too in reference to our salvation; it is not said that the obedience of Christ is imputed to us, and the merit of his good works transferred to us, (which we might surely have expected to find there mentioned, had it been designed to teach such a doctrine;) but, on the contrary, it seems rather to be implied that his obedience was imputed to himself, as necessary to qualify him for the great sacrifice of atonement. Dr. Whately, Essays on Some of the Difficulties in the Writings of St. Paul, &c, 1828, p. 179. C p. 9. Whenever they can bring themselves up to such a pitch of confidence, &c There are two sorts of men in the world that maintain two very different opinions, equally false and dangerous. The one is, that our own works are meritorious, and deserve a reward at the hand of God. The other is, that a strong faith in Christ, though it be separated from obedience, is sufficient to salvation: I must confess, this faith is a faith that hath wrought miracles, hath transformed the most enormous crimes into Gospelvirtues, hath persuaded men that they may commit murder, and rapine, ..."
