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 him, who effects this great work, is that of a Saviour, an Almighty Saviour; who came to deliver us from the wrath to come: to recover us from the abyss of sin and misery into which we are fallen, and to exalt us to the regions of endless felicity. This he effected not barely by the heavenly doctrine which he taught, and the bright example which he set before us, but by the death which he died for our sins.

Mankind are represented in the Scriptures of truth as being in a lost and ruined condition. But Jesus came to save the lost, by bearing their sins, in his own body on the tree, by being wounded for their transgressions, and bruised for their iniquities; by suffering, the just for the unjust; that they might have healing by his stripes, and life by his death.

This enables us to account for all that is said in the Scriptures concerning the dignity of the Redeemer's person. He was found in fashion as a man, but he thought it no robbery, thought it no more than what he might justly claim,) to be equal with God. Though he was really and truly a man, that he might be capable of suffering, and of dying yet all the fulness of the Godhead dwelt bodily in him. He and the Father are one in nature and perfections. If the Redeemer's death were not a proper atonement