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preaching / , it then states the popular tenet of Christ ' s atonement , and afterwards proposes the plan upon which the subject is to be considered . Mr . K . inquires , first s oh . what ternqfs
God is represented in Scripture as pardoning sinners ; 2 dlj what is the design of the death of Christ 5 thirdly , how this design appejars consistent with those various figures in whith it is spoken of , and with the many virtues which are ascribed to it ? He previously examines , however , into what the light of nature would teach us , or what we should be able to collect from
the appearance of things around us , concerning the terms of pardon . We shall submit to our readers the -method and the result of this examination ; although , in our own judgrhent , it might have been waved , in consequence of the appeal being made , and rightly made , to Scripture . The prevalence of happiness in the works of nature proves the benevolence of God * Evil , from its tendencies and
relations , is , upon the whole , an advantage . We have reason to believe , that happiness is the object of the divine government ; that the punishments inflicted by the Deity upon any of his rational and moral ' creatures have their good in view % and that wherever thefe is sincere repentance , the necessity of punishment is superseded . From the imperfection of human governments , sentences are executed upon offenders against the laws
without regard to their professions of repentance : under the government of a being of perfect knowledge , no such obstacle to pardon can possibly occur . True it is , that men are often punished for sin , as in a diseased constitution of body , &c . where they are sincerely sorry for their past misconduct , and have entirely reformed their behaviour ; yet all that can be inferred from this is , not that there is no room for any degree of forgiveness , but that the remission is not complete , so as to exempt the ^ offender from ill the ill effects of his transgressions , which , adds Mr . K . is prbbably the fact in every instance , even where the divine Being forgives most freely .
After all , we agree with our author , that the light of nature leaves it doubtful how far the pardon of sin will extend ; arid we receive with gratitude the more decisive and satisfactory information afforded by revelation upon this interesting subject *
Mr . K . brings forward many passages of Scripture , in support of the doctrine which furriishes the title of this discourse these axe , Ex . xxxiv . 6 , 7- . ( part of which declaration he illustrates by Jer . xxx . 11 . ) ' Ps . li . 16 , 17 . xxv . 7 . Ps . lxxxv , 5 . Dan . ix . 9 * Luke xviii .. 3 . together with various remarks , parables , arid discourses of our Lord ' s , Acts x . 34 , 35 . and Rotir . iii . 24 . From his enumeration of these texts , and his comments upon
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Kenrick ' s Sermons . 313
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 313, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/33/
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