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past sins , ami set them apart , for the future , for his service in Christ Jesus , that he ma > I hereby train them up to a . meetings for ihe holy world and holy employment of heaven . We know but very little either of the real nature or operations of the infinite mind of God , and therefore
should be very cautious what we assert concerning' them , and closely adhere to the Scripture representation of things . Our heavenly Father , in great condescension to his feeble creatureis , is pleased to stoop to converse with us in our own very humble dialect ; for if he did not , we could not
converse with him at all . We , therefore ,-should , and especially the learned should , think much of this when studying the Sacred Scriptures , and above all , when fixing the sense of such weighty subjects as the present . ^ The wisest know but in part , and see
through a glass darkly , i heir most refined ideas , and polished mode of expression , are but as the feeble and indistinct expressions of little children , aiming at something they scarcely know what . The light of heaven will impart much information on these
things . In the mean time , let us adhere to the pure language of Scripture , neither adding to , nor taking away from it-. It is our duty to relate its truths as they are stated in that blessed book ; God and his prophets
will be answerable for the justness of the representations . You know , Sir , who hath said , ** Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain ( empty ) deceit . " JOSEPH JEVANS-
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Bristolt Sir , August 14 , 1819-HAD entertained some hopes that I some one of your able Correspondents would have noticed the observations of Mr . T . F . fiarham on the
Atonement [ p . 356 ] ; that not being the case , 1 have ventured to drop a few hints on the subject . 1 flatter myself that I can make every reasonable allowance for every Christian ( who has been educated in the Orthodox system ) tenaciously cleaving to the doctrine of atonement tinder some modification or other .
Bnt a . few years since , and the following passage ( which I quote verbatim ) I should have subscribed to
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without hesitation : We have no higher degree ; the knowledge of Him appears to ? u ? a sea of perfections , and his love , which in . the mystery of his
atonement has the most beautiful aspect , is our eternal theme * " i was taught
this doctrine from the pulpit , not from the New Testament : I have since found from reading that book , that it is . not the doctrine taught by Christ or his apostles . The discourses
and parables of Christ , and those taught in the Acts of the Apostles , are all at variance with 1 he doctrine of the atonement : this , if the doctrine be true , is a very extraordinary circumstance indeed . Now > our Correspondent expresses Iiis ** conviction
both of tiie truth and importance of the doctrine of the atonement ; * and
if it be so now , it must have been so at the time when the Gospels were written ; and how such an important article should have been omitted is to me unaccountable . The punishment of the sinner seems to be the uniform
language of the Scriptures ; and bow the doctrine of faith in tlie atonement has a tendency ** to manifest the evil of sin and make men hate it—or inspire the sinner witli a bitter hatred to sin , " I must confess is beyond my
comprehension . So far from it , that in my view of the subject , the apostle ' s advice to * work out our own salvation with fear and trembling , " would lose its force , under the
influence of ** an atonement or expiation for sin . " ] f we understand the word atonement as signifying to reconcile , to unite , to harmonize , all is plain and easily understood , and perfectly consistent with the Old and New
Testament : but how your Correspondent can consistently " premise that the doctrine of atonement must , by no means be eon founded with that of satisfaction " and at the same time consider it an * expiation for sin , " is to me a matter of astonishment . 1 could quote many
instances where the satisfactiouist uses the latter word as nearly synonymous with the former . 1 cannot help considering the doctrine in question as one of the appendages of the Trinity , and with that it must stand or fa ll *
Mr . Wright has well delineated its advocates in . his " Free Grace of God Defended , " p . 151 . " Mistaking the premises , and proceeding on false
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552 On the Doctrine of Atonement , in reply to Mr . Barham .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1819, page 552, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1776/page/28/
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