Christ - Our Atonement

"What Christ gave as an atonement was himself, namely his person; not his body without his soul, nor his soul without his body, nor his human nature without his divine nature, but he offered up his person. *His divine nature did not suffer, but it sustained and added virtue to the suffering of his human nature.* He was treated as the chiefest of sinners; the Father hid His face from Him; He suffered the extreme of man's rage; he suffered his people's hell; yea, he drank it to its dregs; he answered all the claims of the law, to the extreme of its demands; he was found to be as the covering of the Ark, the same width, the same length.

In light of this atonement I see the evil of sin and the severity of the law: all the perfections of God shining to the greatest degree: the greatest love and the bittersweet sufferings; with all appropriateness, he could say, "What sorrow is like unto my sorrow?" He drank the cup of millions. Here I see a fountain to wash the unclean, an example for every Christian of how he should behave in the midst of his greatest grief that should befall him in this world. Here I see the devil with his head bruised and his work being destroyed: and eternal justice being ushered in. Christ provided an atonement for our sin while in a triple relationship with us: 1) As being our surety. 2) As being our family. 3) As being married to us. Except for this relationship in triplicate Christ would profit us nothing. Those objects for whom Christ died are those who have gone to glory, and those who will go to him."

Daniel Evans
19th century Welsh Reformed Pastor
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