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    69 g ffincks ' s Sermons .

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    Sir , —In confirmation of the remarks of your two former correspondents on the original meaning of the words atone % and atonement , I beg leave to contribute the following examples . In Spenser , we have , in Book ii . eanto i . v . 29 , So beene they both attone . : — iv . —• v . v . 46 . And with him eke that aged squire attone . —r— — — vii . v . 14 . Whom like unlucky lot Hath linckt with me in the same chaine attone .

    t—— v . —viii . v . 21 . Of final peace , and faire attonenoent Which might concluded be by mutual consent . What is concluded' here is a reconciliation ; it cannot be ap expiation .. Shakspeare furnishes inany instances of this sense of the word atone , besides those adduced by your correspondent , R . S . In the second part of King Henry IV . act iv . scene 1 , - ^ Be assurM , my good Lord Marsha ] , If we do now make our atonement well , Our peace will , like a broken limb united , Grow stronger for the breaking !

    Coriolanus , act vi ., scene 6 , — Mess . Marciu $ , Join'd with Aufidius , leads a power ' gainst Rome . Men . This is unlikely ; He and Aufidius can no more atone Than violentest contrariety . Merry Wives of Windsor , act h scene 1 , — Evans . I am of tfte Church , ai ) d will be glad tp dp my

    benevolence , and to make atonements and compromises between you * In the life of Chillingworth we have the following passage :- — The greatest piaft of the controversy * ( says Heylin ) * between us

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    circumstances which deprive them of the advantage of their author ' s careful revision , with a certain allowance ; but such a reader will rise , we think , from the perusal of these serinons , with a full persuasion that their author possessed in a high degree the moral and literary qualifications required of the accomplished Christian preacher . They are mostly , we may say universally , of a practical character , and the morality which they inculcate is , as might

    be expected , pure and high-toned ; but the sermons on the Death of Christ—on Christian Humility—on the Purifying Influence of Faith—and several others , abundantly show that he was by no means backward , either in vindicating his peculiar views of Christian doctrine , or in pursuing them to their appropriate application , by establishing their efficacy to promote the formation of the genuine Christian character . W . T .

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    FURTHER ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE WORD ATONEMENT .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1832, page 698, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1822/page/48/