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entrance , however * on his new charge , the alarm was given among the Transaltegany bigots , and the Presbytery of the state have published a caveat , accompanied with a statement of the necessity of erecting another College , where instruction may be given less dangerous to the Kirk . " CATH . GAPPE .
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explain what is said in- Scripturfe about the efficacy of the death of Christ , by considering the importance of which it was , in establishing Christianity . Thus for instance , the point which he labours is this ; that if Jesus had avoided death , he would have ruined the cause in which he was
engaged . On the other hand , it is here contended , that the efficacy of our Lord ' s death , which is principally noticed in Scripture , lay in its tendency to impress on mankind certain seasonable and salutary lessons , such as peculiarly befitted the
introduction of the dispensation of grace and forgiveness , to manifest the evil of sin , and make men hate it . Viewing the death of our Lord in this light , it appears to me most eminently and justly an atonement for sin , for the sins of the world ; nor can 1
wonder , that in the Scripture © ur attention appears to be so often directed to it as such . Does any one then ask me , Do you think that the Scripture represents the death of Jesus as an atonement or expiation for sin ? I answer , undoubtedly it does : how can it be denied ? Does he further
ask , In what way do you suppose it could be so ? I answer , because it was an event calculated to impress believers in Christ with a deep hatred of sin ; and , therefore , calculated to prevent any abuse to which the grace of the gospel might have been liable , had it not been introduced in
connexion with such solemn and striking circumstances . Perhaps he farther asks , But is this doctrine consistent with Unitarian views of the person of Christ ? I answer , quite as much so as with Trinitarian : according to
either belief , the death of Christ is a great monument of the evil of sin , and a solemn warning to flee from it ; it tends to guard those whos £ sins are forgiven , from thinking lightly of their guilt ; or being careless about a relapse . Such is the lesson which tlie Scripture draws from it ; * ' tie
that despised Moses' law , died without mercy : of how much sorer punishment shall he be thought worthy who hath profaned the blood of Christ 1 " There is one misconception against which I wish to guard : I suppose it may be said , but all Unite * rians draw " such instructions as , these from the death of Christ , as well as
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356 Suggestion * van behalf ofthe Doctrine ofAtonement .
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Sir , Clapham . SOMETIME ago you were so kind as to insert a few arguments , [ XIII . 235 , ] which I sent you in favour of the doctrine of atonement .
My conviction both of the truth and importance of that doctrine has since become confirmed . Allow me then once more to endeavour to interest your readers in its behalf . It appears
to me , that the Unitarian cause suffers more from our unqualified rejection of this article of belief than from any other circumstance . I must premise , that the doctrine of atonement must
by no means be confounded with that of satisfaction ; they are totally different things , and the latter to me appears manifestly unscriptural . In the eighth chapter of Dr . Carpenter ' s iC Unitarianism the Doctrine of the Gospel , " it is observed , " that the death of our Lord must have had its
efficacy in one of these two ways j either it must have acted out of the usual order of Providence , directly producing , without any intermediate
agency , some change in the Divine disposition or purposes towards mankind , or it must have been a means operating according to the usual order of Providence , and in the then
circumstances necessary to promote the purposes for which he came from God . The Author adopts the latter supposition , and so do I ; for it is perfectly consistent with the doctrine of atonement , and that in the full * force of the word . 1 contend , that the death
of our Lord was regarded by God as an atoqement for sin , principally , if not entirely , ( at least , as far as it imports us to understand the matter , ) on , account of the impressions which ,
according to the usual order of Providence , it was calculated to make on mankind * The difference then lies exactly here . The respectable Author whom 1 have quoted , and with him I believe the main part of Unitarians
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 356, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1773/page/12/
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