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of the blood of the victim whi character to the oblation. Crucifixion of CHRIST by th which effected the atonement is His priestly ministrations w to be for evermore an availing for us by the merits of His I so he claims for us what He l The Blood of the Victim v under the Altar. Thus was death was a sacrificial death, a lost life, but a life given to G in like manner died not wi Himself to GOD. On the sa was betrayed, "He took Br and brake it and gave to This is my Body which is giv remembrance of Me. Likew Supper, saying, This Cup is in my Blood which is shed f for the remission of sins. I shall drink it in remembranc

This, my dear Brethren, pouring out of the Blood u

oblation to GOD. Our LORD says, "This Cup is being poured out for you." He speaks of an act taking place at that present time in the upper chamber, not merely of a future act to be done upon the Cross. His Words connect the act not with the first outflowing of the Victim's Blood in the act of death, but with the outpouring of the Blood from the vessel wherein it was collected in order to pour it under the Altar. Let us understand hereby how in the Holy Eucharist we do "shew forth the LORD's Death until He come;" how we therein take part in the one great Sacrifice; how we therein claim our privileges from the FATHER, as the heirs of the accepted Victim. It is the Cup of the New Testament which we drink at the Holy Altar; the New Testament of life Divine, communicated to us in the Blood of the glorified Son of man. By the power of the HOLY GHOST in the priestly energies of His spiritual Body, He makes the earthly offering to be identified with His Heavenly oblation. As we gaze upon the Holy Altar, let us think of the Lamb of GOD as it had been slain, but living now for evermore. "We are come to Mount Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to JESUS the Mediator of the New Covenant, and to the Blood of

Sprinkling, that speaketh that of Abel."*

"If the ministration of glory, much more does the m eousness exceed in glory." Jewish victim could not be d blood of death. But excep the adorable Victim of the drink His Blood, we can h this Flesh is given "for the this Blood is shed "for th While we worship before the therefore learn the privileges of our holy things, the better the cleansing of heavenly th eternal and all-sufficient Sa perpetually present with us to the FATHER. In the grace, let us love Him wi homage of entire depende our great High Priest, our offences, and was raised cation."

SERMON VIII.

THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

EASTER.

PSALM CXix., 40.

"Behold, my delight is in Thy commandments; O quicken me in Thy righteousness."

ASTER tells us that "our SAVIOUR JESUS

CHRIST hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel."* So does the ancient longing of mankind begin to find its accomplishment. The prayer of the Psalmist "Quicken me," is met by the admonition of the Apostle-"You hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins."t The resurrection of CHRIST is the beginning of our new life.

And why so? Because the resurrection of the

dead is nothing else than t sinner. The one expression phenomenon of life, the other of Divine fellowship. As ou raised for our justification," us life. He quickens us by of His righteousness:-" ( Name's sake, and in Thy ri soul out of trouble."* And me in Thy righteousness." Our justification is, there for our Easter thoughts. upward at this time, with to praise Him as "the Lo When the blood of sprinkl become identified with th Lamb of GOD. "In bap with Him through the fa GOD, Who hath raised H All the law which was ag sin and death, He has re broken a passage for His r of holiness and life.

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