REMISSION, is sometimes taken for Lev. xxv. 10. Num. xxxvi. 4. Deut. xv. 1,2,3, &c.the Year of Jubilee, or the Sabbathical Year, in which the Slaves were set at Liberty, and in which every one return’d into his own Inheritance.
Remission is also used for the Pardon of Mark i. 4. Luk. iii. 3.Sins. Our Saviour says, that John did baptize in the Wilderness, and preach the Baptism of Repentance, for the Remission of Sins. And it is said in several Places of the Ephes. i. 7. Col. i. 14. Math. xvi. 28, &c.New Testament, that the Blood of Jesus Christ was shed for us, to procure the Remission of our Sins.