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ac ^ p& ^ $ > " 4 p , tbi | i $£ ntepc $ scriptural . , . trt ^ tlt fi nd ^ Antichristfeiv error ire lameritabTv blended together ; much is taken for granted which ought to have been esta * blished ( yrfere it possible ) by sound
evidence ; and the preacher , wlib in other passages expresses himself as though he considered the death of : Christ injhe light of a substu ti $ i , on now describes it as pro . curing forgiveness for repentant
sinners . It ft difficult to acquit him of calumny when he holds forth his opponents as " desirous to reduce CWistiatrity to a mere moral sys . tfetirt * Jiot does he render them Justice when he states it to be their * i&vourite object" to represent out EbtdV surrender of life as arfc jehiirety figurative sacrifice ,
" ^ lauiided only in allusion and similitude to the sacrifices of the lfcWi" Sacrifice is defined as
follows by the orthodox Cruden *—4 i an offering made to God , upon lis altars , by the hand of a lawful minister , to acknowledge his power , mid to pay him homage A sacrifibfe differs from a mere oblation in
tins , that in a sacrifice there must be ; H real change or destruction of the ? thiibg offered ; whereas an oblation is but a simple offering of * gift * ' Comparing first of all the Jewish sacrifices with the above
dfefimtibn , and then the death of Christ with both , we shall perceive thy&t bur Saviour ' s voluntary surrghcter 6 f life was in some respects a literal but in other views a figurktive fcabrifice . How far it either
resembles the . Levitical sacrifices , or varied frotii them , will come Hin der oar fnvestigation wh ^ n we itilmidv ^ rt 6 h Brj Knee ' s Iltius
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trahpnsMtta JE ^»^ na / pry Jjis&tr * ty $ m , ; # >< iX ^' r- > >< Y- > - ¦ ' < . From th ^ ^ iyipe aewptan ^ et pf Arjel ^ s sacrifice h ^ infers ** that of
the institution y ^ as divine ordinarjtce /^ j ^ Th ^ i ^ a weigh ty coiiclusipn trdhi ve / y slender premises . But the fiea ^ n . of C ork does not stop here . In the circumstance of Abel's sacrifice he fiqds tbaif this rite , " as practised ip the earliest ages / ' is connected with the
sacrifice of Christ . Tliehypp tbe ^ is is not new : Kennicott and ^ q ^ dndge have endeavoured to iitppprt . m but , after alL itjs ctf thelbaseless fabric of ; a vision » " lij ^ , pj $ ak tempts to g iy ^ j t femi ^ j ^^^ Magee is constmin ^ id tp i' ^ xjfOjtijf some very singular iWts of criticisra on Gen * iv . /• ana Heb , xii .
24 . To evade the plain , JntelljU gible statement in the , Jforrjjer pi these texts , W ^ t aieineitit ^ 3 ^^|*^ illustrates the ^ case of i ^ e ^ ^ ad Cain ' s sacri fices , he aitprs the
translation . ^ nd % instead * j £ reading * and if thoa -doest not we )] sin lieth at the door /^ ff r ^ rj ?? nd ^ rs the clause and if | b ^ a dpesi not well , a sin ^ fferiyg $$ * ^ ypn ^ the door . ' * As tp ttio other
passage— " the blood of sprinknrJ § that speaketh better tilings than that of Abel "— . rhe arbjtrisirily uiv derstands it of a coJDap ^ rj ^ ojQ be « tween the blood of Christ and the blood of AbeVs sacri fice ^ althoiigh the blood of Abel must jaecessarillf
denote the violent death of that righteous person * whicl | cried for vengeance on his murcteref ; wjiil ^ on thp contrary , ^ e crucifixion of our Saviour , was instrumental to , tbe ^ ricjhesit bl ^ s 9 ii | gs # - ^^^ c Ji tftc practice of D ^ ^^ geeK ^ € xpJai » j ^
J Family ExjpoUtvr , M « bf xi . ( note ^)
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4 m ' U ^ ttfW . —2 > r . mdgtt on Atonement .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 494, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/46/
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