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Criticism uponHed . £ ii . 22 , 23 , 24 . 145
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supported by other sanctions than those of the former , and of which neither ttie ten commandments nor any of the Mosaic precepts make apa / rt . Let no man Suppose that because Jesus Christ is here callea a mediator , he has appeased the fury of incensed wrath , or satisfied the claims of almighty justice . Though reconciliation was his errand , it was the reconciliation not of God to man , but of man to God . Persons therefore who pray to be heard and pardoned for the sake of Christ , or through the mediation of Christ , use words and countenance opinions which are totally unscriptural .
V . Lastly ; the words before us represent the ratification and the grand purpose of the Christian scheme : " ye are come to a sprinkling of blood which speaketh better things than that of Abel . " Here we have a reference , first , to the ancient custom of ratifying covenants by the deeith of an animal slain for that end , and next to the blood that was shed by a brother ' s hand , and the voice of which is said to have cried to heaven from the ground .
lhat blood demanded vengeance on the murderer . But when Christ was crucified , this event strongly attested his claims and doctrines , and laid the best foundation for our faith , obedience and comfort . He died , as he had lived , to accomplish the most benevolent of all objects .
borne Christians , however , are so inattentive to the Uesign of sacrifices under the Mosaic ritual , ( forgetting that they were merely ceremonial and had no relation to moral imperfections , ) they are so unacquainted with scriptural phraseology , and especially with the arguments and language of the epistles ; as to imagine that when Christ suffered on the cross , he bore the punishment which our sins deserved . They suppose that something besides unfeigned repentance and substantial amendment is necessary to procure the divine forgiveness * While it is difficult , or rather impossible , to reconcile these opinions with our correctest ideas of God ' s moral character and government , it is not less so to reconcile them with scripture .
If we seriously read , and faithfully interpret those writings , we shall find that no influence is there attributed to Christ ' s death , taken independently of his religion hi general . How does it- " cleanse us from sin ? Only so far as it prevails on us to live , no longer to ourselves , but mnto him who died for our benefit and rose again , I have thus endeavoured to illustrate the phraseology here used bv the author of the letter to the Hebrews : I have considered his language as describing not the future happinttss
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 145, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/33/
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