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 STUDY IX.

��RANSOM AND RESTITUTION.

THE RESTITUTION GUARANTEED BY THE RANSOM. NOT EVERLASTING LIFE, BUT A TRIAL FOR IT, SECURED BY THE RANSOM.- THB CONDITIONS AND AD- VANTAGES OF THE TRIAL CHRIST'S SACRIFICE NECESSARY. How THE RACB COULD BE AND WAS REDEEMED BY THE DEATH OP ONE FAITH AND WORKS STILL NECESSARY THE WAGES OF WILFUL SIN CERTAIN WILL THERE BB ROOM ON THE EARTH FOR THE RESURRECTED MILLIONS? RESTITUTION VER- SUS EVOLUTION.

��the outline of God's revealed plan, as thus far sketched, it is evident that his design for mankind is a restitution or restoration to the perfection and glory lost in Eden. The strongest, and the conclusive, evidence on this subject is most clearly seen when the extent and nature of the ransom are fully appreciated. The restitution foretold by the apostles and prophets must follow the ransom as the just and logical sequence. According to God's arrangement in providing a ransom, all mankind, unless they wilfully resist the saving power of the Great Deliverer, must be delivered from the original penalty, " the bondage of cor- ruption," death, else the ransom does not avail for all.

Paul's reasoning on the subje6l is most clear and em- phatic. He says (Rom. 14:9)," For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord [ruler, controller] of both the dead and the living. ' ' That is to say, the objedl of our Lord's death and resurredlion was not merely to bless and rule over and restore the living of mankind, but to give him authority over, or full control oi, the dead as well as the living, insuring the benefits of hi*J ransom as much to the

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