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      Iteve , that the garments of the holy ones will be made white in the blood of the Lamb . We can enter into the spirit of all these figurative allusions , without in the least trenching- on the distinction between him , who was made unto us sanctification , and the great Father of him and of us , who

      thus condescended to make him the instrument of our atonement . I here use the word atonement , since it is the English term in the vulgar translation for ytoilxXXoLyf } ; the more appropriate term being reconciliation , which is in fact the term used in other places . When I profess then my sincere belief in the atonement , let it be understood ,

      that I do not involve any thing in that term , which is not comprehended by St . Paul in the term xotfocWctyr ) , or reconciliation ; and on this I shall be glad to see a better union among Unitarian Christians . I need not say , that the inquiry into this

      interestingtopic may be conducted in the spirit of brotherly love ; and if I might be permitted to advise , I would recommend , that no appeal should be made to any other authority than that of the scriptures . The opinion of writers , living or dead , may be adopted ; but if it is introduced , there is danger of

      it sleading- into endless controversy : whereas , if wa kaep closely to the scriptures , our minds will be enlarged , and whatever mistaken views any of us may have entertained , they are most likely to be rectified when they are weighed in the balance of the sanctuary . I remain , Sir , Vour constant Reader , W . FREND .

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      Messrs * Frend and Jevaits on Afonemenf . § 3

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      { Chapter Caffee-hoii&e , Jan . 7 , 1815 . Sir , IN your Repository for September last , ( ix . 55 & . ) a Correspondent who calls himself " A Friend to

      Justice , Truth and Candour , " extracts a note from Storcr ' s " Graphical and Historical Description of the Cathedrals of Great Britain , ' * which either he or you cite as an instance of * blundering bigotry . " Asa liberal

      Christian I was inclined to acquiesce in the propriety of this character , especially as you , Sir , expressed your approving wish for more of this ingenious correspondent ' s communications . But one of the most decided Trinitarians

      eagerly seized this , to him propitious , opportunity of shewing what he call ^ ed the " bigotry and intolerant illiberal ity of the professors of reformed Christianity . " ilis arguments were so clear and unanswerable , that I was induced to read Storer ' s work alluded

      to , and consequently to address to you this note , that your correspondent might not again fall into the vulgar error of deciding on men ' s motives merely from their opinions . This champion of the established faith investigated your correspondent ' s letter paragraph by paragraph , and

      observed , " Now-, Sir , it so happens that ( although the able writer is himself an Unitarian ) the main object of Jones ' s Ecclesiastical Researches ( published m 1812 ) is not to demolish that Gothic and

      barbarous system of Christianity miscalled orthodoxy , 'but to pro ve , as justly stated in the note cited in your Repository , that Joscphus and Philo were apologists of Christianity . It is true , however , that the " Sequel to the Ecclesiastical Researches , " published nearly two years later , and either since or about the same period that the ( 5 th number of

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      Sir , JBanbury , Jan . 2 d , 1815 . 1 PERCEIVE that your thoughts have been , and will , for a time , be

      much turned to the scripture doctrine of atonement . It appears to me very desirable-that some person should give us a simple view of that subject , devoid of allrnanner of controversy .

      All persons who read their Bible dust see that much is said about it both in the Old Testament and the New . The question then is , What is it y ' ' .

      If we attempt to explain it all away , or make what is said of our Lord ' s death , in relation to it , a mere shadow , and the shadow of a shade ; and do *<* t give the public something deter-^ "ate ^ substantial , that tkey can fix vol

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      and rest their thoughts upon , 1 aitf very much inclined-to think that they will continue to \ iew the subject in the manner they now do and have long done .

      Nothing , not a word of a controversial nature should be said in it , concerning the person of our Lord , &c . that the reader ' s mind may not , on that account , be prejudiced against it . Some writers , by attempting too much , effect little or nothing . They forget , hasten slowly . I am , < kc . * J . JEVANS .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1815, page 33, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1756/page/33/