The Works of Robt

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and the vail of mercy has taken it away; that great covering of divine love, which is large enough to overspread so many and so great offences. Thus it does as it were turn away the penetrating eye of his justice, which the most secret enquiry could not elude, did not he himself in pity voluntarily avert it. But you will know what is our Propitiatory, what the covering of the mercy-seat, even Jesus who was typified hy that Caporeth in the temple, which the Septuagint render ls-nfiov swtDi/, a propitiatory covering; by which title our great Redeemer is marked outm, as the same Hebrew word Caphar signifies both to cover and to expiate . But that the thing may be more evident and certain, the thought is repeated again in the second verse. Ver. 2. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord im- puteth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. Aben-Ezra paraphrases it, of whose sins God does not think, does not regard them, so as to bring them into judgment; reckoning them as if they were not, '/! AojErat, don't count or calculate them, or charge them to account; don't require for them the debt of punishment. To us the remission is entirely free, our sponsor having taken upon him the whole business of paying the ransom. His suffering is our impunity, his bond our freedom, and his chastisement our peace; and therefore the prophet says, The chastisement of our peace was upon n Rom. ill. 25. It is observed the Hebrew word Eschol haccopher, which some render a cluster of camp/iirc, Cant. i. 14. may with a little variation in the reading, i. e. reading it Ish col haccapher, be rendered, a man of all kinds of redemption, or of all expiation; so the Titrgum interprets it by expiation, and by the way some assert that this Psalm used to be sung on the day of expiation. h...