Excerpt from To-Morrow; The Day of Atonement; The Christian, a Debtor; Pride and Humility; Making Light of Christ; A Mighty Saviour: Sermons Delivered on August 10, 17 and 25, 1856, and January 4, 1857

Again, the atonement was made by a solitary kigli priest - alone and unassisted. You read in the 17th verse, And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congre gation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel. No other man was to be present, so that the people might be quite certain that everything was done by the High Priest alone. It is remark able, as Matthew Henry observes, that no disciple died with Christ. When he was put to death, his disciples forsook him and fled; they crucified none of his followers with him, lest any should suppose that the disciple shared the honour of atonement. Thieves were crucified with him because none would suspect that they could assist him; but if a disciple had died, it might have been imagined that he had shared the atone ment. God kept that holy circle of Calvary select to Christ, and none of his disciples must go to die there with him. 0 glorious High Priest, thou hast done it all alone. 0, glorious antitype of Aaron, no son of thine stood with thee; no Eliezer, no Phineas, burned. Incense; there was no priest, no Levite, save thyself. I have trodden the wine-press alone, and of the people there was none with me. Then give all the glory unto his holy name, for alone and unassisted he. Made atonement for your guilt. The bath of his blood is your only washing; the stream of water from his side is your perfect purification. None but Jesus, none but Jesus, has wrought out the work of cdr salvation.

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