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rection answering to it in p . HS . Towards the conclusion of this discourse , Mr ^ K . explains the comparison of Chrises death to a curse ^ to the paschal lamb among the Jews , and to the death of a testator . The title of the thirty-first sermon is ** The doctrine of Christ's atonement inconsistent with reason /* 1
( Ezek . xviii . 20 . C The righteousness of the righteous , ' &c . ) We content ourselves with stating the heads of the author's reasoning : they are these—that the doctrine in question is dishonourable to the divine Being , and irreconcileable with the prih < ciples of justice , as well as with the general tenor of scripture .
Mr- K . treats m the thirty-second sermon ( 1 Johnn . 1 , 2 . ?* And if any man sin / 7 &c . ) "On the language applied in the New Testament to the death of Christ . " He gives this paraphrase of his text : we have no occasion now to be afraid that our sins should exclude us from the worship of God ; for , if any one sin ^ we have , an advocate , or a comforter , with
the Father , one who is in the presence of God ( as the Jewish high-priest was in the presence of God in the tabernacle ) , -who has performed for us by his Gospel all that that minister performed for the . Jews ; and he is the propitiation or atonement for our sins , he has by his Gospel assured us of pardon for our offences , and procured us free access to God : moreover , he has answered the purposes of an atonement not to us Jews
only , but to all mankind . Other passages then come under our author's examination , such as those where Christ js said to have died for us , to have given his life a ransom for us , to bear the sins of men , and to be a mediator ; and his agony in the garden is also here considered . The ** inferences drawn" by Mr , K . in sermon the thirtythird ( John xvi . 26 , 27 . « At that day , " &c . ) " from the falsehood of the doctrine of Christ ' s atonement" ( rather from his view of it ) , are , that this doctrine has no just foundation ;
that it is improper to ask any favor of God for Christ ' s sake ; that the mercy of God ought to be the object of our trust ; and that we should do every thing in our power to-remove the mistakes cocnrpoply entertained concerning our Lord ' s atonement . In sermon the thirty-fourth , Mr , K . treats " On the
necessity of providing a subsistence for public [ religious ] instructors' * ( L Cor . ix . 14 . " Even so hath the Lord drdained that they who preach the gospel should live of the gospel ) . This is a subject of particular delicacy hi the hands of those who are themselves Christian teachers . Our author has discussed it , however , with great propriety and manliness . The discourse was writ *? ten and preached with the view of recommending a colfection for tlx © support of Dissenting Ministers * , in the counties ^ of Do *
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316 Kenrick * s Sermons . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 316, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/36/
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