When nothing among the creatures could be found to deliver the soul of the sinner, from going down to the pit, God himself found a ransom; he found an atonement, Job xxxiii 24, by setting forth Christ to be the propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness,—that he might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus, Rom. iii. 25, 26. We sinful creatures, both ministers and people, should all have fallen a sacrifice to the sword of God's wrath and vengeance for ever, because of our sins; but behold he finds a ransom; he sets forth Christ to be the propitiation. Whenever he is set forth, the sword falls upon him, and awakes against him who was the shepherd, that the sheep might escape.

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