enemies were reconciled,—a statement which plainly announces two conditions: one a relation of wrath; another a relation of favour, based upon the great historic fact of Christ’s death. Not only so: he adds, we have NOW RECEIVED the atonement; that is, as the term signifies, have now received the objective ground of reconciliation; the meaning of which can only be, that we have NOW received a peculiar relation, or a reception into favour unknown before. He is speaking, not of a change of disposition
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