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ings of Christ , and of bis atonements are supposed" to derive their principal support . With best wishes for the success of your important undertakipg , I am , Sir , Your obedient servant ^ York , Jan . 6 , 1806 . Cath . Cappe .
He hath made' him sin for us who knew no sin , that we might be made the righteousness of God in him . 2 Cor . v . 21 . The sufferings of Christ are - uniformly represented by the sacred writers as having the interests of mankind for their object : they make no mystery of the benefits that redound to us from these sufferings . If there be some passages that are more
figurative and obscure , there are others which speak plainly and explicitly , that will help us to interpret them . Such is that passage of the Apostle above cited . He here speaks plainly con - * cerningthe origin and the end of the sufferings of Jesus ; and this end was so highly worthy of the great and good Ruler of the world s that he hesitates not to ascribe them to his
appointment , nor even to take notice of that very circumstance , which had there been any thing unjust or unkind in the appointment * had been the greatest possible aggravation of if , i . e . the perfect innocence of the sufferer . € l He hath made him , says the apostle , to be sin for us ^ who knew no sin ^ that we might be made the righteousness of God in him . "
These words , I apprehend , would have been more intelligibly and more correctly translated in the following manner , viz * * him who knew no sin , he hath made sin for us ^ that we anight become the righteousness of God through him . " He hath made sin : what then , can guilt and innocence consist together ? How flagrant an absurdity ! Could the holy God traasform his holy Son into a sinner ? What an impious accusation ! I > id he then transfer the sins of other men to him
who had done no sin—the demerit of all other men ' s offences unto Jesus , that being thus loaded with their accumulated guilt , he might be said to be made been even sin itself ? Such absurdities have been taught ; but was Jesus then made guilty of having re * jected , and despised , and reproached , and persecuted J esus ? Christ made guilty of betraying Christ ? The Son of God of bearing false witness against the Son of God ? The King of
Israel of imprecating upon his own head the blood of the King of Israel ? Is Jesus made to bear the demerit of having nailed himself to the < accursed tree ?** Is b £ charged with the guilt of having vilified and reproached hiniself while he was hanging there ? What can be conceived more wildly inconsistent , or more perfectly irreconcileable , not only to all notions of jusiice , but even of possibility ? It is not within the compass of Onuii-r poteuce to transfer one man ' s guilt to another : ; it is not m th $
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28 Christ's being made Sin .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1806, page 28, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1720/page/28/
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