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FINAL APPEAL

this redemption is, St. Paul tells us, Eph. i. 7, Col. i.

.14, 'even the forgiveness of sins.' But if St. Paul had not
been so express in defining what he means by redemption,
they yet would be thought to lay too much streas upon
the criticism of a word, in the translation, who would
thereby force from the word, in the original, a necessary
sense which it is plain it hath not. That redeeming, in
the sacred Scripture language, signifies not precisely pay-
ing an equivalent, is so clear that nothing can be more.
I shall refer my reader to three Or four places amongst

. a great number, Exod. vi. .6, Deut. vii. 8, xv. 12, and
xxiv, 18. But if any one will, from the literal significa-
tion of the word in English, persist in it, against Paul's
declarations, that it necessarily implies an equivalent
price paid, I desire him to consider to whom; and that,
if we strictly adhere to the metaphor, it must be to those
whom the redeemed are in bondage to, and from whom
we are redeemed, viz. Sin and Satan. If he will not be-
lieve his own system for this, let him believe St. Paul's
words, Tit. ii. 14:—'Who gave himself for us, that he
might redeem us from all iniquity.' Nor could the price
be paid to God, in strictness of justice, (for that is made
the argument here,) unless the same person ought, by
that strict justice, to have both the thing redeemed, and
the price paid for its redemption; for it is to God we are
redeemed, by the death of Christ; Rev. v. 9 : ' Thou
wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood.'"
Note upon the word mercy-seat, verse 25: " IXaa-T^Pcov
signifies propitiatory, or mercy-seat, and not propitiation,
as Mr. Mede has rightly observed upon this place, in his
discourse on God's house,"

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