BY THE REV. EDWARD HOARE, M.A. Vicar of Trinity , Tunbridge Wells ; and Hon. Canon of Canterbury . LONDON: HATCHARDS, PICCADILLY. 1878. LONDON: Printed by John Strangeways , Castle St. Leicester Sq....

‘But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.’—1 Cor . i. 30. It is one of the happy characteristics of the present day that persons are much more occupied than they used to be with the subject of emotional religion.  The religion of feeling is much more studied than it was forty or fifty years ago.  Modern books and modern addresses abound in the records of what is termed ‘Experience.’  To a certain extent this is w

‘Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched-out arm, and with great judgments.’— Exod . vi. 6. ‘Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.’— Exod . xv. 13. These texts have a very important connexion with each other.  The first contains God’s promi

‘But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck.  All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem.  And none shall appear before me empty.’— Exod . xxxiv. 20. Man is a very forgetful being, and there is nothing which he seems to forget so much as mercy.  It takes a great deal to make us forget a trouble, but very little to wipe away the thought of mercy.  Thus when God has wrought great acts He has not unfrequently appointed

‘After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him.’—Lev. xxv. 48. Our blessed Lord said in the Sermon on the Mount, ‘Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.’  He did not come as a sweeping reformer to break down existing institutions, and sweep away the law of types; but He did come as the predicted Messiah, to fulfil the prophecies of those prophetic pictures, and to give a fresh dignity to the law i

‘And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance; redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.’— Ruth , iv. 6. It has been my sacred privilege to speak lately more than once on the great subject of redemption as taught in the Old Testament, and the last time I did so I directed your attention to the law of redemption, as laid down in the book of Leviticus.  But that law conveys a very imperfect idea of the redemption by our Lord and Saviour.  In s

‘Into thine hand I commit my spirit; thou hast redeemed me, O Lord God of truth.’—Ps. xxxi. 5. It is a very happy thing for the Church of God that David’s life was chequered by trials, and his character by no means free from fault.  If he had never been in difficulty, we should never have been taught how difficulty drove him to his God; and if he had been a man without sin, we should not have had from him any lessons on repentance as we now have in his penitential psalms.  To his difficulties we

‘Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.’— Jer . xxxii. 7. The Old and New Testaments are so linked together that they cannot well be separated.  The Old is the foundation of the New; the New is the head-stone of the Old; and the same great principles run through them both.  Thus faith in the Old Testament is the same in principle as faith in the New; and by studying the f

‘O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.’— Lam . iii. 58. We studied in the last lecture the remarkable faith of Jeremiah.  We found how he redeemed the field in Anathoth at the very time that Jerusalem was invested by the Chaldeans, and he himself was predicting the certainty of its destruction: but in that moment of hopelessness he had such entire trust in the promise of restoration, and such assurance in the validity of the title, that he purchased the fie

‘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 . iii. 13. In tracing the doctrine of redemption through the types and illustrative narratives of the Old Testament, we found that redemption always includes two ideas—deliverance and ransom—and that in some cases, as e.g. , in the redemption from Egypt, the deliverance is the more prominent of the two.  I cannot help thinking that in this respect th

‘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 . iii. 13. When we considered this passage in the last lecture, we did not complete the subject.  We found who the Redeemer was, viz. the Christ.  We found what it was that He redeemed us from, viz. the curse, or just judgment of God’s righteous law.  We found also what was the redemption price, or great redeeming act, viz. the substitution of the Lo

‘In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace.— Eph . i. 7. ‘And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us.  And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.’— Luke , xi. 4. In our study of the divine redemption we considered from the words of St. Paul to the Galatians the great foundation act of the whole, viz., the satisfaction made for sin by the atoning sacrifice of the Son of God.  We ha

‘Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.’— Tit . ii. 14. If we wish to understand the various passages in the word of God on the subject of redemption, we must never forget the two parts of which redemption consists, so often brought before you in these lectures—the satisfaction of the law by the payment of redemption price, and the actual deliverance of the ransomed people as the result of the finished

‘And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.’— Luke , xxi. 28. It is perfectly clear that the redemption alluded to in these words is something still future.  It is the bright hope which is to cheer the little flock through the storms of the latter days.  When the world is full of perplexity, and men’s hearts are failing them for fear, the Lord’s people are to look up in calm, happy, peaceful, trusting hope in the full assu

‘And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.’— Rev . v. 9. In the preceding lectures it has been my privilege to direct attention to the important subject of redemption, and I think we cannot do better in closing the series than examine in this lecture what they think of it in heaven.  They know there more than we do here,

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