COUNCIL OF PUBLICATION. W. LINDSAY ALEXANDER, D.D., Professor of Theology, Congregational Union, Edinburgh. JAMES BEGG, D.D., Minister of Newington Free Church, Edinburgh. THOMAS J. CRAWFORD, D.D., S.T.P., Professor of Divinity, University, Edinburgh. D. T. K. DRUMMOND, M.A., Minister of St Thomas's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh. WILLIAM H. GOOLD, D.D., Professor of Biblical Literature and Church History, Reformed Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh. ANDREW THOMSON, D.D., Minister of Broughton Place United Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh. General Editor. REV. THOMAS SMITH, M.A., EDINBURgh. THE WORKS OF THOMAS GOODWIN, D.D., SOMETIME PRESIDENT OF MAGDALENE COLLEGE, OXFORD. With General Preface BY JOHN C. MILLER, D.D., LINCOLN COLLEGE; HONORARY CANON OF WORCESTER; RECTOR OF ST MARTIN'S, BIRMINGHAM. And Memoir BY ROBERT HALLEY, D.D., PRINCIPAL OF THE INDEPENDENT NEW COLLEGE, LONDON. VOL. V. CONTAINING: CHRIST THE MEDIATOR- THE SUPEREMINENCE OF CHRIST ABOVE MOSES- THE RECONCILIATION OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD BY CHRIST'S DEATH- THREE SERMONS ON HEB. I. 1, 2. EDINBURGH JAMES NICHOL. LONDON: JAMES NISBET AND CO. DUBLIN: W. ROBERTSON. M.DCCC.LXIII. CONTENTS. PAGE God the Father's eternal counsel and transaction with Christ, to Some observations premised. To the Father the reconcilia- tion is made, and to him the affair is chiefly attributed. What as to our salvation was done by God the Father from all eternity. Meaning of that phrase, God was reconcil- ing us in Christ.' God's resolution and purpose to recon- cile some of the fallen sons of men to himself. God, in pursuance of his design to save sinners, exercised his wisdom to contrive the fittest means of accomplish- ing it. Though God might have pardoned sin without satisfaction, yet he would not; and the reasons of it. Necessary that a full and complete satisfaction should be |