The meritorious cause, and the instrumental means have ever been the same. Christ only, and always has been, "the end of the law for righteousness to every believer." The seed of the woman bruising the head of the serpent; and Christ triumphant over him on the cross, were one, and the same. The death, and blood of the ancient sacrifices, and Christ making his soul an offering for sin, were the same in import, and design. The former were emblems of the latter, and were available only as anticipations of the sacrifice of Christ. He alone, ever, and in all respects was the Saviour of men. God's mercy revealed, and exercised through a mediator and atonement, was the only assigned way in which the just God was a Saviour, and accepted believing sinners, as righteous in his sight.

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