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Rh come to the close of his public life, his whole mediatorial undertaking presented itself to his view; his eye ran over the history of race which he came to save from the beginning to the end of time; he had a  of all the misery, and a sense of all  guilt of men. If he looked back into times, what did he behold? The earth field of blood, a vale of tears, a theatre of. If he cast his eyes upon that one which he lived, what did he behold? That nation to whom he was sent, rejecting the of God against themselves, imprecating his blood to be upon them and their children, and bringing upon themselves, such  desolation as has not happened to any other people. When he looked forward to ages, what did he behold? He that the wickedness of men was to coninue and abound, to erect a Golgotha in  age, and by obstinate impenitenice to  afresh the Son of God. He saw that his blessed name, and under the banners of his cross, the most atrocious crimes were  be committed, the sword of persecution,  be drawn, the best blood of the earth to  shed, and the noblest splits that over raced the world to be cut off; he saw that  many of the human race, all the efforts  saving mercy were to be defeated; that is death was to be of no avail; that his was to be shed in vain; that his