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country . Your burnt-offerings are not acceptable , nor your sacrifices sweet unto me . " Jer . vii . 21—23 . " Thus saith the Lord of hosts , the Cod of Israel , Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices , and eat fle * h . " ( i . e . Take both your sacrifices and offerings and eat them vourseives— -I will not eat them . ) " For I spake not unto your fathers , nor commanded them in the day that 1 brought them out of Eg } pi , concerning burnt-offerings and sacrifices : but this thing commanded I them , saying , Obey my voice , and I will be your God , and ye shall be my people ; and walk ye ia all the ways that I have commanded you , that it may be well unto YOU . "
j The evidence which these passages exhibit of the existence of an error among the Jews , similar to that of the modern doctrine of the atonement , affords , at tl } e same time , a lamentable proof of , the proneness of mankind to misapply the gracious dispensations of heaven .
The unqualified manner ia which the writers both of the Old and New Testament speak concerning righteousness , i . e . moral goodness , affords the strongest proof that they knew nothing of the orthodox doctrine of the atonement .
The sacred writers do not represent the Jewish error concerning the atonement as a harmless doctrine . They plainly intimate , too , by exhorting to good works in opposition to their sacrifices and observances
that those ceremonious observances had supplanted good works . " I will have mercy and not sacrifice , " plainly implies , " you offer sacrifice , but do not shew mercy . " Nor can I doubt that the doctrine of the atonement , as believed in our clays , has produced an abundant harvest cf mischief . The
consideration of this , however , would ] ead to a more protracted view of the subject than I intended ; and I shoul f l be much gratified to see it treated by
an abler hand . It appears to me that there is naturally a proneuess in every degenerated lieart to receive the doctrine of the atonement . What a man does not feel inclined to do himself , he wishes to be done for him . External means of salvation , however absurd , appear to many , no doubt , much more prac-
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ticable than self-government and ? jr tuous exertions . I am , Sir , your % &c W . . J .
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Ml " Sir , IN reading the life of William Pent , lately published by Mr . Clarkson ' it is impossible not to feel anxious respecting the fate of the virtuous jury who were insulted , abused and locked wp for two days by the court and finally committed to Newgate
because they persisted in acquitting William Penn and William Mead of an offence against the Conventicle Act , contrary to the wishes of the bench . Mr * Clarkson remarks , as u » the poor jurymen , " I can no whesv learn what became of them , or how
long they continued in prison . " The following quotation from Hargrave and Butler ' s Notes on Lori Coke , will shew that the jurymen owed their liberation to that
palladium of British liberty , the Habeas Corpus Act , which , let us hope , no sham plot or pretended conspiracy will ever again furnish a pretext fcr suspending .
" In the case of Penn and Meade , indicted in 1670 , for unlawfully assembling the people and preaching to them , the jury gave a verdict againa : the direction of the court on a point of law , and for this were committed
to prison , but on a ~ habeas corpus being brought in the Court of Com mon Pleas , the committment was de clared illegal . Lord Chief Justice Vaughan distinguished himself on this occasion by a most profound args ment in favour of the rights of a jury . *"
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one has a rig ht , to use in what sense he pleases , provided that he defines his terms and adheres to his definitions , I have nothing to add to what I advanced in my former letter ( voi «
Sir , Essex-House , July 1 , 181 ^ AS the most trifling of . ill trifling employments , is wrang lingabout the meaning of words , which even
x . p . 278 . ) in defence of the sense n » which 1 have used the term Vim-4 I would only beg leave to correct
* See Hargra . ro and Butlcr > edition <" Coke oft Littleton , page 155 , note .
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4 l 6 Mr . Belsham , on the Term " Unitarian . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1815, page 416, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1762/page/16/
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