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inquiring minds . After this short preface will you permit me to express a wish that the ^ doctrine of tic atonement may in some of your future Nos . be submitted to . examination , and that your torrespondents be invited to communicate such remarks on this ailed ged essential doctrine of Christianity as may have occurred to
them in the course of their inquijrjes . I should particularly wish to have the truly orthodox doctrine of the atonement stated , after the best authorities , to have
the nature of the Jewish sacrifices clearly explained , to learn what were the sentiments of the Jews concerning acceptance with God
from the age of the prophets in . clusiveiy to the time of Christ , to have it ascertained whether the Christian scriptures countenance
the notion of the transferring of moral qualities from one moral agent to another , and to be made acquainted with the views of theological students concerning the
ends answered by the death of Christy concerning the supposed merits of Christ ' s death , and the satisfaction to the justice of God , the Father , made by it , &c . &c I should likewise wish to learn
the notions of the heathens concerning the placaJbility of the Divine Nature , and concerning the end of sacrifices ; with other topics connected with so important a question .
If there is any impropriety in my suggesting such a measure , you will of course suppress , at least the latter part of this communication ; if not , you will oblige by an early insertion , Yours , &c . RUFFINUS .
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770 Form of the Baptismal Commission ,
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Baptismal Commission . Sir , As a friend to free inquiry and truth I cannot but feel some chagrin at not finding a point which was mooted some time ago in your present volume , [ pp « 182 —184 ] renewed by some other correspondents . The subject to
which I refer is certainly not an unimportant one—theauthenticity of the baptismal precept in its present shape , Matt , xxviii . 19 . Those who see reason to deny the Deity of our Saviour consider / it would seem from their liturgy , the orthodox form , or that in use
with the apostles , as a matter of option with a Christian church . is it then , I ask from an honest curiosity , is it that they conclude these forms to be equivalent , identical in point of meaning ? Do they hold that to baptize in the name of the Lord Jesus , is to baptize in the name of the Father
and of the Son , and of the Holy Ghost ? Or do they conclude , that if the first disciples made so free with the express commandments of their Master as to substitute a form of their own
invention in lieu of the very singular one which he prescribed , they may go and do likewise ? Surely the reason of the practice should be distinctly understood . For one believing , with the author of the Acts of the Apostles , Jesus to hate
been a man proved to be of God , and not an integral part oi the triple Being so happily termed by some of our fellow-Christians the
One God , I must really confess , that in my present state of information on the subject , I should deem baptism in the name of Moses to be about as much a compliance with the supposed original injunction , as baptism m
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 770, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/42/
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