2.) Published anew the law of nature. 3.) Taught with authority. 4.) Revealed the right manner of worship. 5.) Revealed the exact use of repentance. 6.) Revealed future rewards and punishments. 7.) Set us a perfect example. =2.= He has a _kingdom_ which is not of this world. 1.) Founded a church. 2.) Governs it. 3.) Of it, all who obey him are members. 4.) Each of these shall live and reign with him forever. =3.= He is a propitiatory _sacrifice_. 1.) How his sacrifice becomes efficacious, we are not exactly told. 2.) Conjectures may be absurd; at least cannot be certain. 3.) If any complain for want of further instruction, let him produce his claim to it. 4.) Some, because they cannot explain, leave it out of their creed; and regard Christ only as a teacher. 5.) We had better accept the benefit, without disputing about how it was procured. VII. _We are not judges, antecedent to revelation, whether a mediator was necessary, nor what should be the whole nature of his office._ =1.= We know not how future punishment would have been inflicted. =2.= Nor all the reasons why it would be necessary. =3.= The satisfaction by Christ, does not represent God as indifferent whether he punishes the innocent or guilty. 1.) We see, in this world, the innocent _forced_ to suffer for the faults of the guilty. 2.) But Christ suffered _voluntarily_. =4.= Though, finally, every one shall receive according to his own deserts; yet, during the progress of God’s scheme, _vicarious_ sufferings may be necessary. 1.) God commands us to assist others, though in many cases it costs us suffering and toil. 2.) One person’s sufferings often tend to relieve another. =5.= Vicarious atonement for sinners, serves to vindicate the authority of God’s laws, and to deter men from sin. =6.= Objections to vicarious suffering are obviously not objections to Christianity, but to the whole course of nature. =7.= The objection, therefore, amounts to nothing more than saying that a divine arrangement is not necessary, or fit, because the objector does not see it to be so; though he must own he is no judge, and _could_ not understand why it should be necessary, if it were so! VIII. _We have no reason to expect the same information touching God’s conduct, as we have in relation to our own duty._ =1.= God instructs us by experience. =2.= This experience, though sufficient for our purposes, is an infinitely small part of his providence. =3.= The things not understood involve God’s appointment, and Christ’s execution; but what _is required of us_, we are clearly informed. =4.= Even the reasons for Christian precepts are made obvious. CHAPTER VI. SUPPOSED LACK OF PROOF OF REVELATION, AND ITS WANT OF UNIVERSALITY.