(1) As Victim, by His perfect humanity our sinbearer 294-297 (2) As Priest, able to offer what man could not 297-298 The true vicariousness of His Priesthood 298 2. Christ's death the source of life 298-299 (_a_) As delivering us from sin 299 (_b_) As bestowing new life 299 (_c_) As uniting us to God 299 But only as connected with and issuing in the Resurrection and Ascension 300-301 3. Christ's death in relation to man's responsibility 301 (_a_) The Atonement, being forgiveness, must remit some of the consequences of sin 301-302 (_b_) But our mystical union with Christ ensures our share in the sacrifice 302-303 (1) Not in its propitiation, which we can only plead 303-304 (2) But by faith which accepts it and recognises its justice 304-305 (3) And by following Him in obedience through suffering 305-307 III. Consideration of certain erroneous statements of the doctrine 307 1. The implied divergence of Will in the Godhead 307-308 2. The view of Redemption as wrought for us, not in us 308 3. The view that Christ redeemed us by taking our punishment instead of us 309 (1) The essential punishment of alienation He could not bear 309 (2) The penal sufferings which He bore are not remitted to us 309 (3) But He bore them that we, like Him, may bear them sacrificially, not as punishment 309-310 IV. Short summary. 1. The death of Christ as propitiatory } tested by } 2. His death as transforming pain and death } experience 310-312 VIII. THE HOLY SPIRIT AND INSPIRATION. Christianity is an experienced or manifested life: because its essence is the possession of the Spirit, and the Spirit is Life 315-317 I. The Holy Spirit the life-giver:-- In nature 317-318 In man 318-319