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God" ( p . 23 ) . He forgives purely on confession , and for * - his own < r 0 odncss sake" ( p . 37 and 43 ) j and he has u erected a throne of grace freely to dispense hia par . doris" ( p . 190 ) . Yet all these p ardons are bought of him at an immense price ( p . 189 ) , and he
receives a full payment for our salvation ( p . 425 ) . " All our hopes begin from the mercy of God , " yet we should have been utterly hopeless without the " purchase of Christ ' s death ! " ( I \ 2 07 . )
VIII . The Great God himself was at one and the same time , the sacrifice that was offered , the priest that did offer it , and the Being to whom it was offered ! ! In other words , God himself , offered up himself , to himself / 1 / " Aaron must lay his robes away , His mitre and his vest , When God himself comes down to be The off ' ring and the priest ( / P ' . 3 * 8 . )
IX . The same Being that hears prayer , is engaged in praying " for us above > ' ( P . 183 , 328 . ) X . God greatly loved and highly exalted his son ; regarded him as his u eternal darling " ( p . 378 ); yet he put him to great pain ( p . 369 ) , pierced him with the " sharpest smart" ( p . 426 ) , and was exceedingly delighted with the sound of 4 C hia dying groans" on the cross !!
" His dying groans , his living songs . Shall better please my God Than harp or trumpet's solemn sound , Than goats' or bullocks' blood . " ( P . 9 6 . )
XI . No manner of comfort could be found in God till he appvii-red in human flesh , about t ] ghteen centuries ago ; yet David ai ) d all the patriarchs and pro-
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Dr . Wafts * & Trinitarian Yarodoxes . 59 < y
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phets found every comfort in him * long before that peridd !! u Till God in human flesh t see , My thoughts no comfort find ; The holy , just , and sacred Three Are terror to my mind . " ( P . 406 , compared with 97 and 86 . )
XII . God is three persons id one nature , and Christ is two natures in one person ! ! ( P . < 239 y 437 . ) XIII . There were two divinities pertaining to Christ ; one of them left him when in the agonies of death , but the other remained behind to support him .
" His soul , what agonies it felt , When his own God withdrew !** ( P . 430 . ) < c But the divinity within Supported him to bear . ( " Same page . )
Such is the creed , Sir , which I think may be fairly deduced froiu Dr . Watts ' s far-famed Psalms and Hymns : it embraces , as you see , no other subjects than the Trinity , and the deity and satisfaction of Christ ; other topics are omitted for the sake of brevity ; but I guess that , short as it is , it is paradoxical and perplexing enough
to induce you to exclaim " Crc-, dat insanas non ego !—Let me tell you , Sir , that after I had sketched out its articles , and had seen what they amounted to , I was glad enough to shift my
ground again , and recur for relict to the Holy Scriptures ; the words of Mr . Lindsey , at the same time , very forcibly struck my mind : " How thankful ought we to be for the good sense and simplicity of the gospel of Jesus , which
leads us by no such dark and intricate roads to heaven !" A few observations shall now close my letter . 1 . Though Dr . Watts ' s book
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1808, page 599, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2398/page/23/
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