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vour idols , &c . ^ and enter my church as the humble disciples of iny beloved Son , and I will pass by all your past offences ; only take care hereafter to behave yourselves becoming your new
relation , and all shall be well with you for ever ? When Mr . Cogan restores an offending child or pupil to his former state in his family , does not the youth consider himself as
forgiven , and does not Mr . C . reckon himself to have forgiven him by his behaviour to him , though he may not have expressed his thoughts in so many direct terms ? Actions speak louder than words .
If , then , the blood or death of Christ procures sinful creatures a sanctified state , it also procures them the forgiveness of sins , for they are , in some relations , inseparable things . The
Holy Scriptures were wrote in the Eastern part of the world , where , it is well known that no prince will permit a disobedient subject to appear in his presence , on friendly terms , if he does not , at the same time , intend
to forgive him . Esther vii . 8 , and chap . viii . Indeed , all the world must feel the great impropriety of such an action . A certain writer , speaking of the behaviour of the late Emperor of France towards the Duke of Enghien ,
whom he would not admit into his presence to intercede for his liberty and life , says , " That N . seems always to have considered that to see the Duke of Enghien , and to pardon him , were one and the same thing /'
As then the blood of the patriarchal and Jewish sacrifices often cleansed the offerer froca moral guilt , and the Mood or death of Christ is so many times directly or indirectly said to do so too , why , I again say , should we hesitate to use this language , especiall
y as we allow the same thing in a different set of words , that are not a whit more scriptural ? How trifling ^ a ppears to admit that we are received into favpur with God , enter nito the covenant of immortality with ""w , and enjoy all thesacfed privileges
° f the clmrcji of Ood through the l )() od or death of Christ , but do not receive the pardon of our past sins thro ugh it ! Let him make good and consistent sense of this who can . And if this be truth it ought to have vol
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as large a place in our public religious services a 3 jt occupies in the Sacked Scriptures . And I * # m inclined to suspect , that the Unitarian , ^ ai * wil l drag rather heavily along until ¦ this popular and powerful principle shall be linked faster to it , and be set in
more vigorous motion by it . And if our friend Mr . Field could be persuaded to publish his numerous set of discourses on the sufferings and death of Christ , it might greatly promote this good end . —F / s Letter to H . p . 22 . J . JEVANS .
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Unitariamsm in Mttd ^ asiim d Calcutta . J 9 £
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Sir , May 12 , 1823 . TRUST that the time is fast ap-I proaching when Unitarians will no longer be reproached with a want of zeal for spreading the knowledge of divine truth amongst distant nations .
The very favourable and unlooked-for openings exhibited to us at Madras and Calcutta , appear to me nothing less than the finger of Providence pointing out the theatre where our exertions should for the present be principally made . If ( as I hope we all firmly believe ) the period will arrive when Christian truth shall
overspread the earth , even as the waters cover the sea ; there can be little doubt in ipy mind that this great work must be accomplished by Unitarian missions . We may ask , what has reputed Orthodoxy done towards the attainment of this great end ? How sincere and earnest the endeavours
that have been made by different missionary societies in our own times , and in comparison how very small the results ! nor without a miracle could it be otherwise . The stupid
Hottentot , or the scarcely less benighted Pacific islander may be induced to profess a belief in dogmas which they cannot comprehend ; but whsit impression has been made on the Jew or the
Mussulman ? Must not the true but melancholy janswer be , None ? However inviting the pure and divine morality of the gospel may appear to welldisposed men of those religions , so as to induce them to make further
inquiries concerning the truth of Christianity , they no sooner enter upon those inquiries than they are astounded and horrified by hearing doctrines set
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1823, page 297, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1784/page/41/
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