History of Presbyfa‘fanism

that are sanctified” ; and when he had thus, by one final, and because divine, perfect and eternal offer— ing of Himself, “forever purged our sins,” we are distinctly told that “he sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high.” There can now therefore never hereafter be any other possible sacrificial of- fering or pretended auxiliary offering of any de- scription whatever made for sin.

Everything propitiatory, to the very last drop of incarnate blood, has thus already been shed, once for all, and no imaginable repetition or subsequent renewal of that perfectly “finished” act can ever again in the history of this world or in the ex- perience of our race be permitted to occur. The Romish “Sacrifice of the mass,” as it is called, can then be actually nothing short of an unmitigated and perpetual insult to the God of heaven. N o imaginary human priests can have any share whatever in the absolutely single handed and wholly indivisible sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. That work is now, has been and must ever remain his own. In reference to his great mediatorial work more than anywhere else has he declared “I am the Lord and my glory will not give to any other.” On this all- important point the Scriptures of truth leave not the smallest room for dispute. The great work of human redemption is by them repeatedly pronounced forever complete, and consequently the only part now left for us, as they likewise distinctly point out —the only work in which we can have any active share-~is simply that of proclaiming aloud this

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