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400 Examination of the Remarks mi Stone ' s Sermon .
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' S AN EXAMINATION OF THE CLERGYMAN S REMARKS QN STONES SERMON . LETTER IV . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , The divinity of Jesus Christ and the atonement are doctrines which , by the writer of the Remarks on Mr . Stone ' s Visitation Sermon ^ and by a numerous class of Christians are considered as the very fundamentals of Christianity , and a disbelief of either of them 5 as a sure sign of reprobation and inevitable damnation .
We have examined what this writer has alleged from the scriptures to support the former of these doctrines ^ and seen that it is utterly insufficient . to establish it . We now proceed to examine the evidence he has offered in support of the latter , that is the atonement .
This writer says , that Mr , Stone rejects all those parts of the scriptures which declare this doctrine ., as s purious interpolations . He cannot surely mean to affirm that the atonement is a doctrine taught in the Christian scriptures , and an article of the Christian faith . In them the term
occurs but once * , and ., as a man of literature , he need not be informed , that there , it is * not a just rendering of the original ; and if it were , it cannot mean what this writer
means by the term , that is , a satisfaction made to the justice of God for ( he sins of mankind ; for the expression is , " By whom , " ( that is , by Jesus Christ . ) " we have received the atonement : " that doctrine therefore is not to be found
in those scriptures either in name or in substance , and consequently Mr . Stone could not be under the necessity of rejecting any part of them to get rid of it . Atonement , is a mere technical theological tern ) , the shibboleth of aoarty , used without any delcrmimitemeanins ; which he that pronounces , whether or no he can affix any ijdea to it , is at once dubbed a sound , orthodox Christian .
This writer adds , " For the doctrine of atonement , it is declared in Jewish prophecy , see Isaiah I ' m . 4—8 . 11 . 12 . Dan . ix , 24 — 26 . " That the doctrine of atonement is declared in Jewish prophecy , is affirmed without the least degree of evidence j for it is certain that that doctrine in any * Rom . y . x i .
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again appear together , there is a mercy that shall separate those who had blended each other in a common crime ; yet never may the sincerest penitent expect it to be entirely wiped away /' I am , Sir 5 &c . V . F .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 400, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/4/
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