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pdtence and degeneracy of man * On this part of the subject we shall give the author ' s summary o £ . original sin and the atonement in their connexion with one another .
" It is declared that as ' by one mail ' s disobedience many were made sinners , so by the obedience of one stall many be made righteous . ' Rom . v . 19 . Now , if we compare this passage with others , such as ' God has concluded all under sin , ' Gal . iii . ' 22 ; * By the deeds of the law shall fto flesh be justified , ' Rom . iii . 20 ; ' Christ Jesus , who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption , ' 1 Cor . i . 30 ; and * * He has made him to be sin for us who knew no sin , that we might be made the righteousness of God in him , ' 2 Cor . v . 21 ; tUe meaning will be sufficiently plain ,
that the sin which came on all men , or original sin , namely , the natural v inability to fulfil perfect righteousness , was remitted through a mean chosen by God ; Christ ' s unaergoins : the sentence past upon it , and the natural righteousness regarded as the righteousness of Uod , or as original and perfect righteousness : in other words , that the many were justified , or beheld in the complacency of God , as just persons , iii consideration , not of their own , but of Christ ' s righteousness ; and that they were afterwards sanctified , through the same faith in Christ ' s propitiation , and enabled , through the grace given them ,
to ' work out their salvation , ' Phil . ii . 12 ; their repentance being now rendered available , and they being enabled by faith to attain to that law of righteousness , through God ' s forbearance and acceptance , which the first chosen people , by the works of the law , were not , Rom . ix . 30 , 32 . And thus they were ' redeemed by Christ from the curse of the law , ' Gal . iii . 13 ; ' For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse ; for it is written , Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them , ' Gal . ii . 10 . "—Pp . 28 , 29 .
. Such , according to his own account , and so far as we have been able to attach an intelligible meaning to his language , are Mr . Elton ' s present notions on these branches of Christian theology , to the illustration and defence of which the work before us , with the exception of the ample portions appropriated to invidious or criminal charges against Unitarians , is ostensibly devoted . We shall not trouble ourselves to submit the theological system
comprised in his " Second Thoughts , " to a more minute and critical analysis . As far as he has succeeded in developing his conceptions , we are content to leave his . new opinions to be answered by those which preceded them , in which the " reasons" adduced in their support will , we think , find their complete refutation . To any reply we might offer he would probably turn a deaf ear , ascribing our rejection of his sentiments to " the natural pride and self-righteousness of the human heart . "
We cannot compliment Mr . Elton on th 6 literary execution of this part of his undertaking . We look in vain for the lucidus ordo 9 the perspicuity and' the point , which had usually distinguished his style . He writes like a man who had embarked on an irksome task , who is dissatisfied with his work , distrustful of his . conceptions and language , and yet deeply anxious to make the best of his case . , There is so much of evident toil in . searching out and displaying in full array all that was to be obtained to give an apparent
sanction to the author ' s views , that the book has been rendered almost unreacjably heavy and tedious . In his frequent wanderings into the regions of mysticism ,, the- reader loses all distinct traces of his meaning , and becomes bewildered in * thick and , impenetrable clouds . The , parts , of his work in w ^ ich alone he speaks plainly ^ t hqss < tevoted to vituperative attacks upon the Unitarians , xS some 6 f tymfch : we shall direct the attention of . our readers in jthe . following number .
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590 Review *—Secessions frdrn Unitarianism .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1827, page 590, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1799/page/38/
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