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tea ? # aig * W | g as . far » 4 fPf « % » . w « r « ssr Ujpegfa , M | n h | % tjM ^ c ^ l memoir , dra , w # m hr Vt e fcSPH m ftpati ^ ri | rv g § ftejraj , f mm '* w # imte tetters 3 MTg ttH ? Vgftt ihe ygry l > eat evidence we caph ^ m in any mi ^ tfce ^ gcerning # i $ y tjie
fii 3 s ^ nlpa ^^ i $ * £ roateriala an wlygfi 14 ? bi ^ grapUgr S $$ es 9 ® a treasure . At p / pent , howler , my appeal is to tne historical boojbft , from
wbjch I think there are nioje testimonies to 6 e procjucecj tfeaji y&m cpjv rf ^ pqjpjjeni } && noticed . We caoaot gi ^ Rgct ; tQ § i * d our Lori v ^ ry frequently explaining the end 3 01 his death , when $ iaj ; eveixt itself was etiU concealed ia futurity , or o * ily dimly apprehended |> y nis disciples from spjqpe predictions which h ? ojccasipnlly uttered , bul wlijch t ^ y were at ^ los § to uadejv stand . Yo ^ ir coyresponjient asseria the
that pur Lord ne ^ er declared the coonejcioa . l ^ et ^ eea his death and reinissioii af sins but once , that is , when at tlie last § i ^ pper he said , holding the < rup , " " ^ is is my blppd of the New Testaineint , \\ hicn h shed far many for the remission of sins /* This
declaration alojiSj so uttered , and at such ^ time , is v ^ ry f ^ ir frotin silence ou the subject but several other places may ba , quoted of similar import . Oar £ brd declares th ^ f < rTh o Son of Man came to give lu § lifq ^ ransom for inany . " He sayV , that * ' As Moses
lifted up $ h § serpent iu the wilder * ness , so must the Son of Man be lifted lij ) , tjiat whosoever betieveth on him might not per ^ h , but have everlasting life . " An 4 ag ^ «« Tfcue b ^ e ^ d that f will give 19 niy flesh , w \ £ u& I will give for tl ^ e life of the wprld . ' * I am
aware thaf 8 qn > e of these passages jnay b ^ e ^ pWined in more ways than ppe , bty $ It ^ ink tfeey alj , iu 1 ; lieir most obvious aan ^ , ^ dicate ^ connexion between the 4 ^ tfe of 4 e $ u $ | ind that forgiyen ^ esf of sins } which , he was about to dispose . Xhe same appears to me to hwe beien plainly pomt ^ d out byhis forerxmner , wh ^ a he exclaimed , f'TBehpld the J # i * i b of Ga 4 , which taketU away t ^ ie ps of t&Q world V If % i ^ not h ei ^ e called a lamb , in
reference to his laying down his life , I can s ^ e no meaning in this singular qfppqlljtfiftfl . Bm when the hour of ii ^ trial w %$ past E an < l the cross of Chrijat was ^ qci > rae at once the p ^ pwa ?^ and a ^ ry qf the Chrfetian VW ** % * *» 9 » Wl v ^ i Jtt&bt expect ,
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lajOFe frequent xnaitioa ipf t&is eutgect . la saying this I refer Jto the apoBtdlic epistles , £ or I -must ailow , that in the book of the AutB this point of doctrine is not very explH » idy insisted on . In those short diacaursaa af the apostles , which are recorded in this book .
only the great outlines of Ohdstiaaity are skjetched , while many important ; particulara are left to be more fully explained elsewhere . Accordingly t we find distinct notLee af the appointmeat of our Lortfs mediation , of
ministry in general , for the forgiveness of sins , but not «> f his death ia parti * cular . Thus Peter says to Cornelias , ' < Every one who believeth on him shall receive remission of sins " through his name . * And again , Paid , in his address to the Jews at Antioch in
Pisidia , " Be it known unto you , men and brethren , that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of dins /? Here vve find the person and name of Jesus connected with our redemption' in a very close and peculiar manner . His death , it is tnje , is not
particularly mentioned , but surely we cannot do better than to let the apostles be their own interpreters , and use their epistles as comments on their history . I shall , therefore , proceed to
select from these more amplified expositions of oar feith , Biich passages as appear to me the most pertinent and decisive . They are the following . Rom . UL 2 fi : " Whom God
foreordained as a propitiation ( or mercyseat ) by his blood , far . the remission of past sins . 99 Rom . v . 9 , 10 : * ' Much more being i ^ otvJustified by his blood , shall we be saved from wrath through him . For if , when we were enemies , we were recancUed unto God by the
death of his San , routih more being reconciled , shall we he saved by his life . " Rom . iv . 25 : " Who was delivered for our qffienqet i and was raided again for our justification . 1 Oor . xv . 3 : * ' Christ died for on * sins , acdwfimg to the Scriptures / ' 2 Cor . v . 11 r ? ** For he ha 4 ? h made him to be
site . fbr us who knew no sip , that we migrht be made the righteousness of God m him . Gah lit . 13 : " Christ bath ¦ redeemed tasffrom the ourse of the law , being made a cm : se . fo $ us . * Ephes . I . 7 : * In wl ^ m we have wdetnption , through his bloody thefwgivene ^ s of sin *?' E ^ p hee . ii . 10 n ** B * & aaw , ^ h Chx&tt Jesua , y « wh ^ : « dfi > e-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1823, page 146, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1782/page/18/
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