let Him deliver Him now, if He will have Him: for He said, I am the Son of God".

And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabacthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me"?

After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to His mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, He said, it is finished c.

And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, He said, Father, into Thy hands I commend My Spirit and having said thus, He gave up the ghost d.

And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent®.

And one of the soldiers with a spear pierced His side, and forthwith came thereout blood and water.

a Mattt. xxvii. 39-43.

c Joh. xix. 28-30.

e Matt. xxvii. 51.

b Mar. xv. 33, 34.

d Luke xxiii. 46.

f Joh. xix. 34.

Prayer for a participation of the benefits of Christ's sufferings and death.

O BLESSED Jesus, our most gracious and compassionate Saviour, Who didst willingly submit to the greatest indignities, and pains, and sorrows for the expiation of our sins; I most humbly beseech Thee, by that unutterable love which moved Thee to undergo so great sufferings for our sakes, to intercede for me with Thy Father, that those sins may be pardoned, for which Thou hast so dearly atoned and that by the continual exhibition of Thy meritorious death the God of compassions may be moved in wrath to remember mercy, and to admit me to a participation of all those benefits which Thou hast purchased for mankind, with pains most exquisite upon the cross.

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And, O most merciful Father, Who so lovedst the world, as to give Thine only-begotten Son to die for us, that we might live through Him, I humbly entreat Thee, for the merits of His most bitter death, and through His most powerful intercession, to be reconciled unto me, and to pour down upon me the abundance of Thy mercy, and such a plentiful measure of the gifts and graces of Thy holy Spirit, as may direct me into the paths of righteousness, and

excite me to an ardent love, and careful imitation, of the great Author and Finisher of our faith; and at length conduct me to Thy holy hill, there to sing the praises of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, to all eternity. Amen.

2. Scripture proofs that the death of our Saviour Christ upon the cross was a true and proper sacrifice offered up by Him for the atonement of sin, and accepted by the Father as a full satisfaction in the behalf of all those who shall comply with the terms of the new Covenant in His blood.

ALL have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God".

For ye

know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold":

But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. Who His own Self bare our sins in His own body on the tree*.

Rom. iii. 23-25.

h 1 Pet. i. 18.

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1 Pet. i. 19.

k 1 Pet. ii. 24.

And hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us'.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all".

Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted, But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed ".

For He was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of My people was He stricken °.

It pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief: when Thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand P.

Because He hath poured out His soul unto death and He was numbered with the transgressors; and He bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Christ also hath loved us, and hath given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour '.

And He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world ".

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other Name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved °.

God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them P.

He hath made Him to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him".

For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit'.

And after He had offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever sat down on the right hand of God".

Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal re

demption for us.

For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh; How much more shall the blood of