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was consecrated with his own blood . This is the idea which runs through the epistle to the
Hebrews , and by which the fanciful liut eloquent writer endeavours to reconcile his half-fielieving countrymen to the offensive doctrine of a crucified Messiah , But
neither does he , nor do any of the writers of the New Testament ever hint at the modern doctrine of the blood of Christ being shed as an expiation for moral offences ; I am persuaded that the idea of
a doctrine so repugnant to reason and the divine perfections , and to the most explicit declarations of the prophets of the Old Testament , never once entered into tlveir minds . I am , Sir , Your humble servant , T . BELSHAM .
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Passage from Hobbes , on the Destruction of the Wicked . Mr . Editor , I send you a few extracts from Mr . Hobbes * answer to Dr .
Bramhall s book , entitled , The Catching of the Leviathan . My reasons for sending them are , that they bear upon a subject of controversy which has appeared in many of your Numbers , and that
I would contribute my share of influence , or at least endeavour to lead back the public mind to th . e simple , clear and vigorous wrhiqgsof those giant minds , that wiere created in the mighty
struggles between the new principles of freedom and the old principles of arbitrary authority , which commenced under the reign of Henry the Eighth , and whiich terixiinated ir * that of William and Mary , Gr ^ at occasions oot only
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require but create great men This is the chief reason , I conceive , why our greatest writers are comprehended under the eventful period of our history to which I have referred .
I cannot persuade myself Mr ., Editor , that any of your readers will infer that I approve all Mr . Hobbes' principles because I quote from his writings . The
greater part of his works ,, indeed , I not only approve but admire ; but one or two of his political and ethical principles I consider to be false , and if , operative ^ mischievous . This , however , is no
sufficient reason for indiscriminate and entire reprobation as if no . thing good could come out of Na zareth . Atheism is the old , the
perpetual accusation brought a * gainst philosophers ; for there never was , perhaps , a true thinker and honest writer from Socrates
to Locke , whose principles were not reprobated as false and dangerous . In the . following extracts , J . D . stand for Dr . Bramhaik that
is , as I suppose , J . is the initial of John , and D , is the -initial- of Derry , of which the Df , was Bishop ; T . H . are the initials of Thomas Habbes .
I . G . ' < I . D . To what what pmpose should a Caelum Empyreuoa serve in bis Judgment who denieth the immortality of the soul ; who sup * poseth that when a man dieth there rer » aineth i * Qthh * g of him but his carcase ; who , maketh the
word soul in holy scripture to signify always either the life or thxj living creature ; and expouadeth the casting of soul and body into hell . fire . to be the ca&ting o ( body and life into hril-fire . He
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756 Passage from Hobbes , on the Destruction of the Wicked .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 756, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/28/
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