200 words essay on redemption
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REDEMPTION, in Scripture, signifies the buying back something that is lost, alienated, or mortgaged; or, it signfies deliverance from danger, violence, or oppression. It is applied to persons or things; to either the lives or estates of men. It always has relation to some law of equity, and moral justice. That redemption which our Lord Jesus Christ wrought for his people, was also according to the law and justice of the first constitution which man was placed in. It was observed in the introduction, that the will of God is the source of moral obligation; it was his revealed will, that man should have kept that positive law he gave him, in a state of innocence, or in case he should transgress the precept that was given to him, he should fall under the weight of the threatening, and forfeit the favour of his Maker, in which his true life and hap∣piness consisted; for in the favour of the Almighty is life;