Ralph Erskine on mercy and peace meeting in heaven

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... Now, in this work, Christ carried the price of his blood into the very presence of God for us, Heb. 9.24. and paid it down before him; and, in this act, justice hath its satisfaction brought home; and, by this act, mercy and justice actually are met: For hereby Christ sprinkled the very mercy-seat with blood all over, both upon it, and before it, as the forecited Lev. 16. represents: For the mercy-seat of old stood so, that it could be seen but two ways, namely, upon it, and before it, as a table next to the wall; and so this points out, that whatever way we look to mercy by faith, we may see mercy and blood mixt, mercy and justice met together, and all sorts of mercy conveyed thro’ the blood of Christ, top-mercies, and side-mercies, upper-mercies of a spiritual nature, and lower mercies of a temporal nature; for the mercy-seat is sprinkled with the blood upon it, and before it, and whatever way you look to it.

The sacrifice was finished on the cross, and all sacrifices finished therein; but the blood of the sacrifice behoved also to be carried within the vail in order to the full atonement, that what was written in blood upon the cross, might be sealed in the presence of God at the heavenly bar: And we act not our faith far enough for redemption, unless we follow Christ from the cross to the bar of God’s justice-court in heaven, to see all sealed and secured there within the vail, where this blood is exposed, as it were, and pled at the bar; where mercy and justice meet together, and embrace each other. ...

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