The offering up of Isaac, our adversaries themselves allow, was a type of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Isaac, the delight of his father and his only son, was bound in order to be sacrificed by Abraham himself, notwithstanding all the yearnings of parental bowels. Thus he became a lively type of Christ; of Him, who is the only begotten of the Father, and in whom he takes infinite and eternal delight. Him did the Father deliver up to sufferings and sorrows, to agonies and death. The types, which prefigured the death of Christ, all agree in representing him as suffering in our stead; as the ancient sacrifices were substituted in the place of those for whom they were offered. So the blood of Christ, being sprinkled on our hearts, preserves us from the stroke of Divine justice.

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