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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: No. III. THE BURDEN OF THE NEW SONG. The Hallelujah chorus of the New Song is, the atonement of the Lamb of God for the redemption of the soul. Hence, it is not the life, but the death of Christ?not his example, but his sacrifice?not his ministry, but his mediation, that forms the burden of this song of songs. Not only do all around the eternal throne sing nothing of their own good works or great sufferings, whilst they were on earth: they celebrate none of the Saviour's good works or virtues; but confine the song of salvation, exclusively and entirely, to the blood of the Lamb. This fact demands and deserves your utmost attention. I do not, of course, mean to insinu ate, that either saints or angels in heaven, overlook or forget the life of the Saviour. They cannot?they would not if they might?forget that perfect model of the beauty of holiness: and they know its merits too well, not to admire it, as the express moral image of God. But still, it is the Saviour's death, not his life; his blood, not his obedience, that kindles their adoring wonder, and calls forth their pealing hosan- nahs of gratitude. Now, if there be any thing self-evident from revelation to reason, it is, that whatever is done in heaven, under the eye and sanction of God, must be? the will of God. And it is equally obvious, that the grand intention of religion is, that His will should be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Now, as all in heaven ascribe salvation wholly to the blood of the Lamb, it is self-evident that all on earth, who refuse to do so, are directly opposing the will of God, and thus demonstrably wrong and rebellious. There is no evading this conclusion, whoever it may affect, or however it may clash with some popular theories of charity: for if they are right, who, in h...