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of John , our attention is arrested by a passage which appears decidedly to support the agency of the devil , and which , therefore , must ~ he particularly examined ; ch . iii . 8 . He that committeth sin is of
the ' devil , ior tne devil sinneth from the beginning , for this purpcse the son ot ' God was manifest * ed , that he might destroy the \ vorks of the devil /
Unquestionably the devil is here spoken of as the author of sin , and as a being who himself sinned , in reference to which the apostle aa ; ain says , ver . 10 . c In this the children * of
God are manifest , and the children of the devil ; whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God , % neither he thatJoveth not his brother / It ma y however be questioned , whether the apostle means to support the truth of this opi ,. nion , or only adopts it as the common and prevailing one . There is also an allusion to this doctrine , vcr . J < J . though the word ; SicxJSoXos is not used : For this is the message tin-it ye heard from , the beginning / that is , the begin-
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For the Monthly Repository \
Dec . 1 , 1 S 08 . Some Christians contend that sin is infinite , that nn infinite
satisfaction must be made to divine justice in order to its being forgiven , and that consequently none but an infinite per&on could make satisfaction for sin ; that therefore Christ must be God , or he could not procure our salvation . To say nothing either of the absurdity of saying that sin is infinite , or of
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ning of the gospel dispensation , 4 that ye should love one another , not as Cain , who was of that wicked one , ( the devil , ) and slew his brother . ' It is admitted that the apostle is pointing out the different classes ofmen and their re * lation to two different beings ; the virtuous he describes as children of God , the source of all goodness ; and he speaks of the vicious
as the offspring of a very different being , that is , the devil ; but this may be only in allusion to the philosophy of that dark age when the Jews incorporated the mythology of the heathens with the-pure
doctrines of revelation . They , 3 n whoxn the sun of righteousness has arisen , have learnt that God is the creator and maker of all , that all men are his offspring , and . tlnit it is only in a figurative sense , that the vicious " are the children
of the wicked one , i . e . of the devil , or the being who is supposed to sustain that character , the author of every thing which is evil . T- W .
( Fo be continued . )
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talking of forgiveness on the ground © f satisfaction , it is evident that if sin be an infinite evil , one
infinite person could make satisfaction for only one sin ; for as the number of sinful acts committed is not infinite , sin if infinite at all , must be-infinite in its nature , and unless each sinful act be infinite , sin in the aggro , gate cannot be so ; for if fniite quantitios . be added together eve ?
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330 On Infinite Satisfaction for Sin *
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ON INFINITE SATISFACTION FOR SIN .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1809, page 330, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1737/page/28/
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