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    tied the efficacy * of the death of Christ ; " all stand in need of a . Redeemer > " but have the same text , Heb . ix . 26 . The Doctor assumes that the death of Christ was efficacious to-the pardon of human sin . However , he has

    neither clearly stated his views of rhe doctrine of atonement ^ nor entered into any comparison and explanation of the texts which he produces . The reconciliation spoken of in Col . 1 . 20 , is the union of Christian believers of both

    Jewish ^ and Gentile race , into one body ; -an union accomplished by the cross or death of Christ , as the consequence of which the polity of the Jews was destroyed ahd Christianity offered to ., the heathens .

    In the twentieth sermon , from Horn . vi . 1 ,- the writer attempts t : > prove that * the efficacy of the ceath of Christ is consistent with

    the necessity of a good life / ' The fame laxity of statement and reasoning , the same misapplication of scripture pervades this sermon vith what we noticed in the

    foregoing : —the death of Christ is lever spoken of in the N « T . as the cause of salvation : that cause i * the free love of God . ' A much better discourse is the tventy-first , on ' * pure religion ^ " from Jam , i . 27 . It describes

    and -properly exposes the state of those who pretend to be pious and lenevolent without the cultivation cf personal purity . " The agency of Jesus Christ

    since las resurrection , " is represented in the twenty-second , from Heb . Xiii . 8 . Although the context limits the meaning of this passage to the unchungeabloness of the Christian doctrine , yet . Dr .

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    P . has thought fit to explain iI m Christ ' s person , pbwer and office ; points not in themselves unimportant , but about which this veifee-. is totally silent . We have next three sermons , the twenty-third , twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth , from 1 Con . iir . l 6 on " spiritual influence in general / ' 'Ihe error runniftg throughout them , is that of

    interpreting certain passages as ot Christians in general , which ought to be interpreted ^ only of the very first converts . It is remarkable tbat , in a visitation sermon , to which we have already adverted Dr . P . recommended a ** cautioii

    m the use- and application of scripture language / ' which he has not observed himself . Either then the sermon of which we speak should no longer be published , or those before us should have been kept back . In that valuable discourse he says , It becomes every

    man who undertakes to explain the scriptures , before he deter * , mine to whom or what an expression is novv-a-days to be applied ,, to consider diligently whether it

    admits of any application at alJ , or whether it is not rather to be restrained to the precise circumstances and occasion for which it was originally composed , " he asserts concerning texts similar to those < which he brings forwawl in his scrmgns on spiritual influence , that cC they mean nothing to be found or sought for in ihe pivscnt circumstances of christiantty , " It therefore appears to us that he is , in this instance , incon - sistent with himself , and has noc pursued his own principle to its just extent . W ^ explain by Matt , ¦ vii . 11 . Lttko xi ; 13 ; and we re *

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    Mevi ^ £ ~ -&aiei /* s Sermom * 401

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 451, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/37/