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explanations , I should stand convicted of palpable folly . My view regards no more than the plain connexion of two great events ; it is more of an historical thau doctrinal complexion , according in this with that fine remark , * that Christianity is a religion
of facts . " The two facts are , first , the sufferings and death of our Lord Jesus Christ ] secondly , those privileges and blessings which were conferred on mankind' by his resurrection ; or , in other words , that forgiveness of sins which we receive in him . Before I
go further I would observe , that this forgiveness of sins , which we thus receive , is by n o means t o be confounded with that general favourable disposition , with which a penitent is always regarded by God : I am not for adopting the strange language of those who
speak of the death of Christ as giving efficacy to repentance ; let us not judge by supposed cases , but by the real facts- —the facts which the gospel records and predicts , and no others . These facts may be briefly stated : our Lord Jesus , being without sin ,
suffered and died ; that is the first : the second is , that having risen again , he has brought life arid immortality to light , and is exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour , to give repentance to his people , and remission of sins . Now the question relates to the
dependence of thie latter of these events on the former , and may be stated thus : Does not the Scripture represent the former of these events as appointed by the Divine wisdom to prepare the way for the latter 9 and that in consideration of mankind being sinners ; and the latter
event involving the forgiveness of their sins ? I must leave this question , Sir , with F . B . and your readers—we cannot all see things alike ; but to my mind the answer shines unambiguous
with the clear and steady light of truth . I will not trouble you now with texts ; I think there is none clearer or stronger than the simple statement ,, that " Jesus died for our sins . ' I care little about the word
atonement , or any other theological phrase ; only let such expressions as that just quoted , be used as freely and fearlessly as they fire in the , New Testament , and I shall desire no more * The connexion between the steps of our redemption , as pointed out in
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Scripture , should not be lost sight of or lightly regarded ; for , no doubt , to bear it in mind concerns both otrr holiness and our comfort . F . B . considers the atonement as turning on the Deity of Christ : m
answer , I avail myself of the words of an able defence of Unitarians , lately published . ( Appeal to Scripture and Tradition , p . 140 . ) It is there said , ** The atonement is commonly thought to be interwoven with the divinity of Christ , but erroneously . The
atonement , or propitiation , does not of itself prove Christ's divinity or his super * angelic nature :, the simple humanity of Christ's nature does not of itself disprove the atonement" The . Jewish sacrifices were atonements in the appointed cases ; Job ' s offering was an atonement for his friends ; an act of
Phinehas made atonement for the whole people of Israel t why then should an Unitarian think the mediation of the Lord Jesus an insufficient atonement for the sins of the whole world ? These things do not depend on weight and measure , but on the good pleasure of the only wise God . The question is simply , " . Cjui dabit partes scelus expiandi ?" THOMAS FOSTER BARHAM ,
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London , Sir , December 1 , T 819 . HAVING been repeatedly toW that I ought to have taken some notice of Mr . Procter ' s letter , which
appeared in the Monthly Repository for November , 1818 , p . 688 , respecting the state of sundry Presbyterian Chapels in the county of Stafford ; artfl observing that the subject is again alluded to in your last Number ,
at p . 673 , 1 now send you such information as I am in possession of , respecting the one at Newcastle-under-Line , and hope that this may induce some other persons to furnish you with similar communications from
Stone and Stafford . Twenty-five years ago , the Old Presbyterian Chapel at Newcastle was used regularly for public worshi p * and though the congregation was small , some of the most respectab le people in the town and neig hbourhood belonged to it . By foe death of a gentleman of great opulence and considerable consequence in the -county
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732 Presbyterian Chapel at Newca £ tle-under ~ Line .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1819, page 732, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1779/page/16/
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