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ing , for by his life , sufferings and death , believers have their hope in God ; Jesus is the High-priest and Mediator between God and man , for by him we have the perfect knowledge of God ' s will and character , and through him we have the enjoyment of God ' s favour .
If your readers will take these ideas with them , they will I trust , find the New Testament nn easier book tlian some I fear wish it to be . But what is this New-Testament covenant ? Christ offered , devoted himself without spot to God , to purge the conscience from dead works that we
might serve him , Heb . ix . 14 . See also Peter ' s reasoning , 1 Ep . chap . i . from ver . 17 > to the end . Yes ! Jesus is a Mediator of a better covenant , established upon better promises than that of Moses . See Heb . viii . 6 . To
return to the former chapter , Hebix . 15 , and following verses ; here the words testament and testator might have been rendered " covenant '' and " covenant-witness , " alluding ta tjie ceremonies and the victim employed in such engagements 5 the word is equivocal , and it is plain this
author so considered it . He says , ver . 18 , " the first testament was not dedicated without blood j Moses , " 19 th ver . " took the blood of calves and sprinkled both the rjook and the people , ' &c . Read to the end of the chapter . Thus * there are three that bear record , the spirit , the water , and the blood . "
To sum up the tenor of our reasoning , the most ancient sacrifices were symbolical but not typical , they were peace or thank-offerings , but not sacrifices for sin . The Jewish sin-offering , a refinement on the original idea , was not expiatory , nor had it reference to any thing * future . The death of Christ was a sacrifice to God
on the altar of purity , fidelity , integrity , virtue : faith in Christ and repentance towards God , holiness , without which no man shall see the Lord , a sincere heart , a righteous disposition are necessary to those who would enjoy the privileges of this atonement , this reconciliation ,
obedience to the gospel , the word of reconciliation , trutjj and salvation * Were not these things expressed by the Jewish lustrations and by Christian baptism ? " Purge me with hyssop , &c . wash me , &ck ° Psalm li . See
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also Matt . iii . 11 , "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance : but he that cometh after me is mightier than I , whose shoes I am not worthy to bear , he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire 5 " that
that is , " I initiate you into my doc trine by lustration , thus I introduce you by a figure into covenant wi th God ; but Jesus will lustrate you really , he will purify your hearts and lives by his doctrine and spirit . " Justice and mercy are honoured in the death of Christ , and life and
immortality are secured by his resurrection . Surely the work of Jesus was in the highest degree meritorious , he was our intercessor on earth , he is our mediator and- advocate in heaven , through him the divine mercy is communicated to men , Thus God ho .
nours ^ his beloved and exalted son : he supplies all our wants out of his riches in glory by Christ Jesus . In a few words , If we say that a way was opened by the death of Christ for the
free and consistent exercise of mercy in all the methods which sovereign wisdom saw fit to adopt , perhaps we shall include every material idea which the scriptures give us of that important
event . I am , Sir , yours , B . P . SEVERN . Erratum . —P . 88 , col . 1 , 1 . 19 from th « bottom " signa" for si quas .
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158 Objections to the Popular Scheme of Atonement .
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Sir . T is said that Jesus Christ made Iatonement to God or satisfied the divine justice by his sufferings and death ; now , I wish to ask when and how he made the atonement and gave the satisfaction ? By his death ? or by the sufferings that preceded and ushered in his death ? or by both together ?
If by his dbath , was it the mere circumstance of dying , or was it the mental agony that accompanied death ? But the history shews that he died with composure and serenity ; in the mere struggle of nature he did indeed call out in the language of one of the
penitential psalms , My God , my & <>"> why hast thou forsaken me ?—he presently recovered himself , however , he prayed to his Father , was heard in that he feared , committed himself to him ihatjudgeth righteously , ^ * j ^ his Father ' s hands gently com mended his spirit , declaring before he died ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1815, page 158, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1758/page/30/
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