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• < r zealot fer the literal sense of scrip ture * i * i all c ^ ses , ntay consider as in direct opposition to the sentiment of the wise man before quoted , and thus , unawares , set the law against the gospel , Christ against Sofomon , and represent the sacred scriptures as inconsistent with
themselves . I have been led into these reflection * , upon perusing lately an old book found in the library of the late excellent Dr . Fleming , which from its external appearance might probably bare cost him at a stall , some threepence or four-pence . " It is entitled " The Torments of hell , the
Foundatiou and Pillars thereof discovered , searched , shaken and removed ; with many infallible Proofs , that there is not to he a Punishment after this life that shall never end , &c . 1658 . " "N o printer or author ' s name . Though a desultory work , it contains many acute remarks and solid arguments , founded
on reason and scripture , against the doctrine of eternal punishments , expressed , after the manner of the time , in very shrewd and homely language . It is the more curious , as the writer is both a Trinitarian and , apparently ,
in favour of predestination . The followiugnote is within the cover , in the doctor ' s hand-writing . " A book written by a Predestinarian , which may f allowed to have some arguments » n it against the eternity of future punishment , but who has cancelled the
very idea of sin , and supposed the universal happiness of all mankind /* This does not appear to me to be a for statement of the merits of the w ° k ; but as the subject of future punishment is dismissed by you for the P « sent , I shall only trouble you , if
you think them worth insertion , with Jie authors sentiments respecting the wctrine of atonement ; a subject pch should certainly be treated cau-Uousl y and temperately . We must 2 / arefuJ on th $ one hand , not to ** ct froin the character and essen-¦ * Perfections of the adorable Jehoor
^* encourage a vaiu con fiden ce j «| e merits and undertaking of our r ^» and on the other hand , not to *** fte character of the Saviour , ^ ^ ttfci sh his glory in the gre at . ^ ^ rcdeitm tk )! , «* O »« ambassa-2 ** M < M ; BitfV the grand er-* ** di ^ ea&r $ hfe grace to the
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children of Adam : for all men to whom he is preached , must " honour the Son even as" ( XP &x $ ) that i » s , as truly , *« as they honour the Father . " " He that honoureth not the Son , " ( with that appropriate honour which is his due ) 4 * honoureth not the Father , who hath sent him . * ' But I am
unawares entering into a disquisition , where I only meant to give you a quotation , which now follows * verbatim , " I believe that Christ
hath borne the whole punishment of sin $ in that I am satisfied , and desire no more 5 but how Christ suffered the torments of htell , I nor themselves see not : thev say , Christ being God ,
made an infinite satisfaction , paying at ofice upon the cross , that which we should have been ever a paying : I grant , Christ is God ; but the Godhead did not , nor could not suffer $ if the Godhead of Christ was to make
satisfaction to God , that is to say , God mtisfieth God ; and , if ( Christ as God was to make satisfaction , to what purpose was Christ to be made man and die ? If je say , Christ was to make satisfaction in both his Godhead
and manhood : doth the Godhead need the help of the manhood to make satisfaction ? It is not proper to say , God was to be satisfied ; for he wa& never unsatis fied * God is perfect , in - finite , happyy unchangeable ; how is he so , if he were ever unsatisfied ? To
say , God is , or ever was unsatisfied , is , in effect , to deny the being cf God ; to say he is not happy ; for satisfaction and content belong to happiness y where there is no satisfaction , there is no content , because no
perfection : God is one to us , there is bat one God , who * in Christ , reconciled the world unto himself ; ' that is , Father , Word and Spirit , God is one , not one divine nature in Christ
satisfying , and another in the Father , sa .-tisfied , but the Father in the Son , God in Christ : the essence of God , one and the same , * reconciling the world to himself . God was never
unreconciled to the world ; it in only man that is at enmity and unreconciled : therefore , it is said , * he reconciled them unto him . ' * The change is in the creature , not in God . ' Mai . iii . 6 . If the manhood of Christ was to make satisfaction to Go ( i , how can man that is finite , satisfy that which is infinite ,
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Knowledge and Opinions similar in all Ages . 92 ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page 283, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/19/
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