An essay on the remission of sins / by A. Campbell.

  • Alexander Campbell
Date:
1846
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    the death of his Son.’’§ To the Corinthians, lie says, “God has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ;”f and to the Colossians, he asserts, “It pleased the Father by him to reconcile all things to him, having made peace by the blood of his cross; I say, whether they be things on the earth or things in the heavens. Even you (gentiles) who were formerly alienated in mind and enemies by works which are wicked, he has now indeed reconciled in the body of his flesh through death.’’J To the Ephesians he de¬ clares, that though “once they were without God, and with¬ out hope in the world—far off, they are now, through the blood of Christ, made nigh.’' He has made the believing J ews and gentiles one, that he might, under Christ, reconcile both in one body to God, through the cross, having slain the enmity between both thereby. Indeed, he represents God as in Christ, reconciling a world unto himself; and so all under Christ are frequently said to be reconciled to God through him; which was the point to be proved. Prop. v.—The first disciples were considered and address¬ ed bi/ the Apostles, as “adopted into the family of God.’ This adoption is presented by the Apostles as the great reason which called forth the Son of God. “God,” savs he, “sent, forth his Son, born of a woman, bom under the law, that he might buy off those under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.” “ And because you are sons, he has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.”§ “You are, therefore, now sons of God/’ Indeed, the same writer, in his letter to the F.phesians, goes still farther, and represents this adoption of Jews and gentiles into the rank and dignity of sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty, as the great object contemplated in God’s predestination. “Having,” says he, “predestinated, or before hand determinately pointed us out, for an adoption into the number of children by Jesus Christ, for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.”§ Another tes¬ timony must suffice on this point. “Beloved,” says the Apostle John, “now are we the sons of God; and what manner of love God has bestowed upon us, that we should be called sons of God ! If sons, then we are heirs of God —joint heirs with Christ.*' § Rom. v. 10. + 2 Cor. v. 18 j Col. i. 20, 21. || Gal. iv. 0. § Eph. i. 5.
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