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artv He Stigmatized thfe Oaivmistic atonement in this manbep . ** In fact * fhia aoctrine iinderniiue * the divinity of Christ , as nmeli as Socinmniam , inasmuch as it makes a separation-between the views and character of the Father and those of the 'Son . "^ -P >
120-On the Patfipassian system o € atonement * Mr * Erskine is enabled to Eulogize it without measure * as implying , in to&e sense , the unutterable
love of the Deity , and not the unutterable malignity whiek sticks closely and inevitabiy to bb character , aceording to every Galvinistic scheme . This love he described thus , ( p . 104 , ) * ' What a wonderful and awful and
enlivening subject of cob temptation is this ! God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Soa ^ - ^ that J > art of himself which assumed the manhood . " And the same God sent forth this Son "—* this manhood . €€ Thk is the God with whom we have
to do . This is his character , the just Go <^ and yet the Saviour . There is an augu&tn £ s& and a tenderness about tlik acty a depth and height , and breadth and length of moral worth
and sanctity , which denes equally , the full grasp of thought and language *" M % ht not the Jesuit , whom I before introduced , adopt this pathetic language with as much propriety and effect , when he dwells on the eonti *
mted and excessive humiliation of a third part of Ms . Gad ? - A very small additional portion erf faith ivonW enable Mr . Eatefckie to join , in ecstatic
delight , with those who warship the Deity irt the faon of a beast . As he haa taken good care not "to analyae the component parta of the Ghnstian scheme of doctrine , ' * which
he 6 ay 8 & tiie object of his Disserta tion , we cannot ; titerfctfotray certainly decide , that he makes Ms aion * ment to operate so partially , as- to imply the doctrine of unconditional election oatid rejihsrbatron . Bu ^ though' we
fthXMddr acquit him from representing WM ^ JJetisy < as > ea ^ rlDiou ^ unj us t ana ttWigttfitot , itUi tttem is an ex ^ aur ^ - tpPlf foUy in M « nruion of atone te ^ he ; * a 4 ^ ko mve mind can endure fot ^ ' i vtiatte ^ What man . k his >^ e » i ^ wnew that the infini te and »< H ^ € lod ^^^ ul ^ et ^ &a '^^ degtrsidckl ralfcieff -ttp ^ nJu ^ lwibj fy& $ m # M
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bimsel ^ ordectb jatoae himself for the sins of men i How are we to account for the fact / that a man of talent and learning should maintain , in a civilized society , that the Qitotipotent , Omniscient Creator of all worlds , and of all beii ^ s , ^ should be
reduced : to the necessity- of becalinn ^ a roan ^ and dying upon m crass * before he could forgive any one individual m&ii , and before hk could induce any rational creature to Uate sin ? There ij » in these notions a depth and height , and breadth and Length of absurdity , which denes the power of language .
The remainder of hia book contains aot much clearer elucidation of his atonement ? hut the whole is r contrived with great ability , . mid a studied obscurity to sooth the prejudices of
Calvinisms , ta enlist them on his side , and even to persuade them that he coincides . with their ideas , when lie discoursed in Rhapsodies on the character of God , and the wonderful effect which his unutterable love must
produce on the hearts and lives of men * We cannot but regret that a man of his talents and acquirements , with so much devout feeling , should be driven blindlv from one frightful
extreme , v respecting the character of God , to an opposite extreme m& less monstrous ^ aud to advocate a cause which would tend to bring . revealed religion into contempt . . ¦ ' . . . ¦ , . . S .
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\ . ¦ . , --.: ' ,, ' . Yvovil , ¦ iSra / . i -. March 12 , 1823 * MAVING seen the statement of - M *» Adam ia MHhm Unitarian Fund Register , J $ o . I . /? attached to your last Number , I cannot fail ( in of
common with eveTy Jov ^ f truth ) to i ^ oice in the pr ^ spect ^ of th ^ spread of UnitariaaisEtoinXtldlai Connecting with it the accounts which have reached this . country b 6 fdre ^ there doetus little doubt qf the ult&ifiate success of tt well-dig « sted > plaoy Bin <^ ottr brc Are » at OailcHtta h ^ W sikco ^ e ^ ed in
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1823, page 154, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1782/page/26/
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