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2. The purchase of this blessing was made by the offering that Christ made to the Father.
Prince of Peace. (Isa. 9:6). Peace on earth... Nigh by the BLOOD. (Eph. 2:14). He is our peace. In the text, peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
The way. Great High Priest. Offering is but one; but it is to be variously considered.
3. The way in which we come to have an interest in this.
Purchase: and so to be actually brought into peace with God is by being united to Christ.
Threefold union.
Most immediately by a legal union... Real union foundation of legal.
Being in Christ, the believer, as it were, necessarily is a partaker.
4. The immediate efficient of this union is the Holy Spirit.
So Christ is in them, and they in Christ. (Rom. 8:9, 10).
The union is first by a communication from Christ; and this is what is communicated.
The vine is united by deriving sap: the womb by deriving life.
Thus the Holy Spirit makes application. In this respect the peace with God is from the Holy Spirit.
5. The work by which the Spirit works in the elect by which this union is effected is faith.
This is the uniting act. Therefore God looks on the sinner as one with Christ, because He has accepted of him; and his soul has united