which made Him unspeakably well pleasing to the Father. That blood of Jesus, God and man, poured out in a death that was a perfect fulfilment of God’s will, and a perfect victory over all the temptations of sin and self, effected an everlasting atonement for sin, and put it for ever out of the way, destroying death and him that had the power of it. Therefore it was, that in the blood of the everlasting covenant Jesus was raised from the dead; that in His own blood, as our Head and Surety, He entered
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