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unless you affirm that the Opdhead of Christ did , suffer ? There was not then airy thing to suffer but the manhood of Christ— -Can the suffering of man satisfy God ? Man \ s finite , so is all he doth—sin is a transgression of the law , sin is a disorder of the
creature ' s first and chief heirs *? , which &taiids in righteousness , and is an erlipse of the glory of man . Sin is a defect and discovery of the weakness * and mutability of the reasonable ¦ creature ; sia cannot impeach God .
Job , xxxiv . 6 , 7 , 8 . God hath all satisfaction in mid from himself , not from any thirty without or besides himself . God gave not a law to himself to satisfy ,, but to man : the law belongs only to the human nature , therefore Christ was , a man : * He
took on him the form of a servant , and became . obedient to death , the death of the cross—a bodyy Obedience belongs to the human will . The man Christ * made a curse for us . He was bruised for our iniquities , and by his stripes we are healeaV * It was
blood that washed away our sins ; therefore it is said , * By the obedience of one [ man ] we are made righteous . ' The word saith , not by the obedience of God , nor of God-man , is God satisfied 5 but by the obedience of one wiau , the man Christ Jesus . The
worthiness of Christ ' s person did not abolish the equity of the law of God and exempt him from suffering , that he ought to suffer , Luke xxiy . 25 . Some say , the suffering of Christ was infinite , but the word saith not so : the punishment of sin is death , he tasted
death , he died for us ; it is no infinite thing to die : they reply , the sin of man is infinite , because committed against an infinite God . To say sin is infinite h > a strict sense , is to attribute too much to sin and too lit lie to God—to give that to sin which is
proper to God : to equal ^ n with God , is , in effect , to deny the being of God 3 because , There can be but one infinite : also , Xo say sin is infinite , is to make sj 11 sin alike equal 5 for there is [ are ] no . degrees in that which is infinite :
sin , not being infinite , needs not au inlinite satisfaction : they say , Infinite Majesty offended , infinite punishmen t impose ^; btrt it is but their say so , because it is without and besides the wwd of God , 4 The puiriament of sin i * not to be taken from the infi-
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niteitess ? M , 0 od , ^^ tjrbmijie ^ naltv expressed in his la \ v for the br ? ach of it , whicji is death /^ peo . iii . An Occasion , al Reader . ^—
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£ 84 Degraded Condition of the > French Peasantry under JjjtyifXV " . and XV
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Sm . Jprilzs , 1315 . Give me leave to confirm the description of the poet whom I quoted ( p . ^ 19 ) , by a very respectable prose authority , for the degraded co ndition
of the French peasantry under the reign of Louis XV . I Vefer to the Earl of Cork and Orrery , , from Lyons , October 2 , 1754 , thus mites to his friend , Mr . Dun com be .
" In France the poverty of the people and the fruitfulness of the soil , are circumstances that excite wonder and compassion . All the great cities , and the districts belonging to them , at
once proclaim the power and the shame of this arbitrary government The French nobles are clad in purple ; the French peasants haw scarcely sackcloth to cover them . There is no
mediuni between laced clothes and rags . The equipages and number of horses seem to answer the wealth of the Indies . The persons who make those equipages , and who provide food for those horses , have not bread
to eat . The people in the proviuces through which we have passed , complain extremely of the rapine of the farmers-general . " Corkes Letters , 2 nd edit . 1774 . Pp . 9 , 10 . More than twenty years after the
date of this nobleman ' s observations , the same remarks were made by Sir Neale Wraxall in his " Tour through the Western , Southern , and Interior Provinces of France , " first annexed to his " Memoirs of the King * of France of the House of Valois . " n * thus writes from Blois , 13 th of Mtf ,
1776 « . No language can describe w beauty of the Loire , or the fertility of the country through vW «* ? \ The extreme poverty and misery w the peasants , in the niidst <* J ™!* cious paradise , producing in th € . ^ i est abundance all the neceN * x *»** elegancies of life , impresses u * »>™ pitv , wonder and indignation , i _ much magnificence , but 8 ti « « T distress ; one princely cbawau ^ rounded with a thomm * ^ J ™ hamlets ; the *»<** «*^; 2 £ E » vate luxury amoi * the b ^ J ^ y of society , otttfafeted ¦>* & ***
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page 284, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/20/
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