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of their hearers . Accordingly , the Christian dispensation : ig sometimes described as a covenant , and Christ is the victim by whose blood that covenant was ratified . Again , the Gentilea being in an uncovenanted state , and the Jews having forfeited their covenant privileges , they are both represented as
ceremonially smners , and Christ is said to have died for sinners because by the gospel dispensation , Jews and Gentiles are both brought into a covenant state and made ceremonially holy , by believing in him as the Messiah . In the epistle to the Romans , Christ is compared to the mercy seat , and it is sprinkled with his own blood . In the epistle to the Corinthians , the Christian dispensation is apassover feast , in which Christ is the paschal lamb , and his doctrine the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth . In the epistle to the Hebrews , Jesus is represented as the high priest of the new dispensation , and being of the tribe of Judafo and not of the family of Aaron , it was necessary that he shoul < J
be consecrated , as Aaron was , with blood ; but his priesthood being superior to that of Aaron , required the blood of a supe ^ rior victim , and that victim was himself . Who does not see that these representations could never be intended to be understood literally , but were figurative exhibitions of the death of Christ , and intended to abate the violent prejudices of unbelievers , but especially those of the Jews against the doctrine of & crucified Messiah ?
My friend gives a most curious illustration of his notion of a , n atonement , p . 202 , by supposing a cc wise and good king ** to put his beloved son to death s i& order to convince penitent rebgjs , whom he intended to receive into favour , how much he was offended at their treason and rebellion , and how little they could expect forgiveness if they should rebel a second time * This would have been thought an odd method either of conciliating or intimidating the Irish rebels after the late rebellion-, and its success must surely have been very problematical . Whether our own wise and good sovereign may ox may not think fit to avail himself of my worthy friend ' s patriotic suggestion upon any future similar occasion , ( which God grant may be very remote ) , it is not for me to say * . But of this 131 m
* My friend ' s imaginary iuhe * ndgood king is supposed to possess the power of aising his beloved son to life , which our real one does not . This however makes little difference in the case so far as the rebels would be concerned . But though ihe worthy author is entitled to great credit for the originality and ingenuity of his invention , I suspect that our modern statesmen who profess so much deference ta the wisdom of our ancestors , would regard it as a hazardous experiment , and would probably resort to the old and tried method of punishing some of theriug * Jeaderi , and pardoning the r » et »
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lit . Belsham ' s Strictures on Carpenter ' s Lectures . 597
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VOL . II . 4 I
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 597, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/33/
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