intended to preshew, by at once representing the spotless sacrifice He offered on the cross, and his bearing our iniquities away into everlasting oblivion. But that the reconciliation obtained by the blood of Christ's cross, not only for us, but for all, past, present, and to come, was alone obtained by his perfect righteousness; that neither the justice of God was satisfied, his wrath appeased, nor sinners showed what sort of treatment their transgressions did deserve by the sufferings of our Saviour, the distinction in the offices assigned to the goats, we conceive to have very fully demonstrated.

We again see the opinion we deplore broached in consequence of another portion of Scripture, which on an impartial examination will, we venture to assert, be found totally irrelevant to the subject unto which it is applied. The passage alluded to is contained in the first chapter of the Lamentations of the prophet Jeremiah and the twelfth verse; and is thus quoted by Dr. Doddridge:-" Let us set ourselves at the foot of the cross and see whether there be any sorrows like unto his sorrows, wherewith the Lord afflicteth him in the day of his fierce anger, clearly implying that the sufferings of Christ were occasioned by the fierce anger of God. Now, on reading over this chapter, we in the first place find that Dr. D. in his quotation, has altered one material word, as recorded in holy writ, to suit the application to the purpose he employs it. The verse runs thus in Scripture, Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by ? behold, and see if

there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, (not his sorrow, as stated by Dr. Doddridge's quoted exposition,) which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger." In the second place, the whole of the chapter is manifestly a prophetic lamentation over the sorrows of the miserable state of Jerusalem by reason of her sin; and these are the very words prefixed in the Bible as explanatory of the contents of the chapter in question: and these contents further state that she_that is, Jerusalem -complaineth of her grief, and confesseth God's judgments to be righteous. "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies. Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness. Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy. And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is

departed her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer. Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries, all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore she is removed all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness; yea, she sigheth and turneth backward. Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully she had no comforter. O Lord, behold my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself. The adversary hath spread out his hand upon her pleasant things for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation. All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile. Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger." (Lamentations i. 1—12.)

Now, we only ask any impartial person to determine whether this prophetic lamentation is most applicable to the sorrows that awaited the city of Jerusalem, or the sorrows and sufferings endured by our Lord; and we think