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race. They were cut off from communing with God, and were plunged
in hopeless misery. The law of God could not be changed to meet
man’s necessity, for in God’s arrangement it was never to lose its force,
or give up the smallest part of its claims.
The Son of God pities fallen man. He knows that the law of his
Father is as unchanging as himself. He can only see one way of escape
for the transgressor. He offers himself to his Father as a sacrifice for
man, to take their guilt and punishment upon himself, and redeem
them from death by dying in their place, and thus pay the ransom. The
Father consents to give his dearly beloved Son to save the fallen race;
and through his merits and intercession promises to receive man again
into his favor, and to restore holiness to as many as should be willing
to accept the atonement thus mercifully offered, and obey his law. For
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the sake of his dear Son the Father forbears a while the execution of
death, and to Christ he commits the fallen race.
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