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The Fundamentals Second , Redemption through Jesus’ blood. “The Lord laid on Him the iniquity of us all” (Isa. 53 :6 ) . “The Son of Man came * * * to give His life a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45). “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” (1 Peter 3 :18 ) . “For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor. 5 :21 ). “For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth” (Rom. 10:4). “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree” (Gal. 3 :13 ) . “And ye are not your own. For ye are bought with a price” (1 Cor. 6:20. See also Lev. 17:11; Heb. 9 :22 ; Matt. 20:28 ; 26:28; John 3:14 , 16; Rom. 3:24-26 ; 5 :9 ; 1 Cor. 1:30; 10:16; 2.Cor. 5:14-21; Eph. 1 :7 ; 2:13-17; Col. 1:14, 19-22; 1 Tim. 2 :6 ; Heb. 9:12-14, 24-26; 10:19; 13:12; 1 Peter 1:2 , 18, 19; 2 :24 ; 1 John 1 :7 ; Rev. 1 :5 ; 5 :9 ; 12:11). On no other ground than the cross can the sinner be justified and recon ciled to God. If the atoning work of our Lord was not vicarious, then the sacrifices, ordinances, types and symbols of the old economy are meaningless and of no value. The moral influence theory of Bushnell is all right for the saint; but the atonement is of no value to the sinner if it is not substitutional. More than thirty years ago, in Denver, Colorado, I met an aged Congregational minister, who was a pastor in Hart ford, Connecticut, during Dr. Horace Bushnell’s pastorate in the same city. He told me this: “I spent an hour with Dr. Bushnell the day before he died. He then said to me, ‘Doctor, I greatly fear some things I have said and written about the atonement may prove to be misleading and do irreparable harm.’ He was lying upon his back with his hands clasped over his breast. He lay there with closed eyes, in silence, for some moments, his face indicating great anxiety. Directly, opening his eyes and raising his hands he said, ‘O Lord Jesus,
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