Author: Samuel Eyles Pierce

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9781230341590

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ... 104 SIN IMPUTED TO THE SCAPE-GOAT [PART 2. head of the goat, how the goat represented Christ, and how Christ as the representative of the Church had all our sins laid to his charge, proceeds, Secondly, "To confess over the goat all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their trangressssions in all their sins: " thus shewing the truth and reality of Christ's being made sin; the whole weight of sin and of the sinner's dependance being on the head of Jesus, as Aaron's hands bore heavy on the goat: and thus Aaron confessed all our depravity in the same words expressed in Exod. xxxiv. 6, 7, where the Lord promised " to forgive iniquity, transgression, and sin: " and in Dan. ix. 24, the same words include the whole essence of evil to be removed by the death of Messiah. Now Aaron confessing all this over the goat, shewed his faith in the transfer and imputation of sin to another, and that the slain goat was sacrificed for those very sins which were confessed over the live goat. There is not another type in the whole Bible so important and so declarative of the total removal of all guilt from the most guilty of all sinners. The high-priest is reported to pray thus over the goat, "O Lord, thy people, the house of Israel, have sinned and done iniquity and transgressed before thee: O Lord, make atonement now for the sins and for the iniquites and for the trespasses that thy people, the house of Israel, have sinned and unrighteously done and trespassed before the?, as it is written in the law of Moses thy servant, That in this day he shall make atonement for you." The covenanttransactions between the Father and the Son were clearly set before the people through the sign of the scape-goat, on which the sins of the people being put by...