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and I must candidly confess that I nave always felt some degree ; of embarrass-Went arising frorn them . J trust you will excuse my mentioning on or two instances of this . It mutt be evtt'ent to all iyho are acquainted with this system , tfcat chert ? , is a great 4 egrce of darkness amending it with respect to the nature of Christ in his supposed prfe » e * iwtent state , of which no one has ever be * n able to form a' clear , and -
detc 1 ?» Fe iudgn ^ ents upon any goo 4 authority ** A ^ ain , with regard to his death , and * tht purposes which it was designed te answer ; or , my own part , I have tt £ v $ r he ^ n able , since I have been capable of thinking seriously , upon the subject , to believe that it was intended
either fo pacify ( he wrath of God , and dispose him to the exercise of mctcy , or to sa iafy bis justice by paying * as it were , a full equivalent for the ^ s of naen : nor was able to assign any other crrtte whicri it could rationally be supposed' accorrn > K » li , than to manifest , ill the m&f t affecting manner , the halinens of . God ' s nature , and his hatred Of sin , at the same time that he ex tend-1
edihetcy to sinners ; to give the most strHging pledge and assurance of bis repiiineftMO ; forgive the s ^ s of tbe truly pepiteat , by tiie 6 olea . n ratification of tlie covenant of grace ; and thus , to hold ©\ £ t the strongest encouragement and motive to repentance . Yet , I bad a general persuasion that the language of
scripture implied something more ihan this , which t was not able to explain ; and , upon that principle , I have often quoied pasf ages of scripture , or other . wise expressed myself in such a way as might naturally convey an idea of tJtjere Ikying sortie further etjBc ^ cy in the death of cm / L ^ rd , without attempting to define wherein it consisted . r
u Further , > vith respect to the agency of £ h ? ist m the govern men t of die Criorch , rdgardin ^ Mfm fcbtfc as the procurer at > d imrpefii ate dispenser of sptricuai blessings t I have not £ crn }> led to say that ; wevirere to look to him for tnem , ^ the exercise of humble faith :
though both hb own express rfTrectidns , and the language , as well as the practice of fiis a > osi 6 ft . forbade hie to encourdgd stfch ari rfflSa &VhSi hf vtpjtik t 9 hm | pr themi n 4 X thinl : ft must ^¦^ M ^ I Jft ®^ gtofjdp t > q » i » 4 oflsidetable decree of confusion attend-
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ing such views as these , 1 apprehend * J * . petIM * MBi& . fact that those ncra ! , * -en v ^ ry expfccit ^ ^ atin ^ miiratcly the . r sent $ nent $ 9 ynth regard to some important docirmes of Christian , ity ; an 4 1 : ^ . hJR ^ it tn n sk , appear , from
the' circunoqtances w ^ ich , I ^ ave now raentibneo , that this is suft ] cientl ) f accounted ^ or by £ he embarrassments -which resak ^ ifrom the system itself .
without charging . ^ hos . e who embrace it with any wUful , <| up Uci ; y pj- ^ sinffe , nuous ^ eas ^ for it i ^ sure ^ r impos sible for anyone to ex |> lain a subject fully and preciRel ^ to others , upon ' which he 4
has not ckai a ^ d q finite CGnceptiona m his own mind . <« Having yt nturcd % p saj ^ so much with reference to niyself , I" hope you will pardon me , and not attribute my conduct to a vain wish of giving any undue inqportfincc . to my o * n views and feeling ^ \> va rather to an honest desire of serving trie cause of ituth , and ci
inciting others to serious inqtairy , if 1 take $ fic liberty of mentioning further , that about a year ago , I was incidentally led to give a more particular attention to one view of the agency of Chr st , which w&s his being supposed to be , under Gq 4 > &b creator of f the world , than I had eyer paid ip it be / ore ; the result of which was that 1 found myself compelled to relin ^ uisjri the idt ^ as " which
M . *« flU *** MU *** K . ** 9 * M . % , \ Jl ^ JtynJi * 1 " ! . **» % OUUJVVWl . ^ n * t beipg auiEckotiy supported by the scriptures . I then felt it tp be my cfrty to enter into a more serious and close examinatiorl into the grounds of the general system which I had long adopted and into the scriptural evidence which there is for what is cpmrponW
called the Unitarian doctrine , with respect to the per&qn of Christ ; against which I ought to he ashamed to acknowledge £ &at I had hitherto indulged a general prejudice , so far ^ to prevent my giving ; it a fair and fulV . exaniiuation ,
*« Alter much anxious , and , I hope I may add t serious and faithful app lication of my best powers of judgment to the subject , I was at length constrained to renounce | he ytews > $ wh I } && ' ' tertaincd witb tegard to t ^ e person or Chrtst ; and browghi to a fiilt conviction that he was , in natnw , bnlf a **** > though eminently disfimgimhtfd f ™™ all other men , both by iht unpamUeic c
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 614, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/54/
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