Now in the day of conversion, the believer may be ignorant of many things pertaining to the Prophetic and Kingly offices of the Saviour. But if a repenting sinner could not believe so as to be justified by faith, until he should have a complete knowledge of all the offices of the Messiah, there would be but few justified believers in this world. The blood of the everlasting covenant is made to stand as an identical object. — “In whom we have redemption through faith in his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.” In the same manner, the cross of Christ becomes indentified with faith and forgiveness; for the cross, the blood of the cross, and the death of the cross, all convey one leading idea, the idea of the merits of the sacrificial death of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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