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atonement . There may be some daring Ahtinomia ' ns , who are ignorant and vicious enough to reason in the manner which he justly reprobates ; . but * it is sufficiently known that ; all the'proper Calvinists disavow the sentiments , the spirit , and the practice , of such
persons . f I . » m not explaining-, or adducing evidence for , the doctrine in question z my only object is to plead for a fair and equitable construction of it . Whether it be
held as stated by such authors as Tomkins , Ritchie , Price , Fuller and Magee , or in the high and 0 n my humble apprehension ) untenable sense of GUI and Brine , or in any intermediate method of explication , —• all dispassionate men must admit , that the believers of the doctrine of Atonement
uniformly maintain it as a scheme of ineptitudeand , mercy * to secure inviolate the honour of the Divine Per ~ fenttmts ^ and to restore sinful men to houne « s and felicity * Does not the u Old Correspondent "
know that , according to Calvinists arid those-who , in this point , nearly coincide with them , faith in Christ is the condition sine qua non of pardon ; and that no faith is held to be efficacious but that
-which operates in the production and preservation of righteousness and holiness , sincere , universal , and constant ? Is it not a com . tnon topic in their sermons andpractical writings , that , should a ttitatx reason as your correspondent represents them to reason , it would indicate a state of mind
destructive of any rational hope that he % a * a patdomd and happy character f * / . - If it is not trespfcsaing too much wkyvyur pagei , 1 bfeg permission % o
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adduce , as no slight evidence of what I have advanced , a passage from a very respectable and able work recently published , Dr . Williams ' s Defence of Modern
Calvinism . u We also maintains that a true and * lively faith is productive of good works , as a good tree bringelh forth good fruit ; and that its character may be best known to
us by its effects ; but surely , as a cause is distinct from its effects , as a good tree differs from its fruits , and a principle in the mind from its operations , so a good faith is a different thing from good works , and therefore should neither be
identified nor confounded * But though Calvinists avoid this , thf J are in the constant habit of insisting ^ that a fruitless fai th is not saving . They urge the importance of good works ou several accounts ; for they know that God requires
universal obedience — that they are . well pleasing to God—that Christians are justified aud renewed , in order that they may walk in them unto all pleasing—lhat they are profitable unto men *—that Christ is the author of eternal
salvation to them that obey hita *—and that they are bound , in duty and in gratitude , to observe all things whatsoever Christ has
commanded . They reprobate < * wih warmth a dead faith , and inculcate with earnestness ' charityaijd all other virtues and gdo&de ^ ds * * as indispensable towards forming tye Christian character . ^ ¦ >»
" They are taught by experience , aa well as by scripture , that except they abide in Christ i by > faith , they canrtot glorify God by bringing forth much fruit ; yea , that they * can do nothing , *^ tufthing that deservei th # naipiof Gkrit-
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% g j Calvinistic Doctrine of Atonement .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 298, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/18/
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