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( tH # the AMemUys Catechism , nothing more is said N a bout the latter in hfa Direction * I * which ; are aM , m hm ^ said , of & practical and moral kind . < f Mr . Palmer has published , in his second edition , Noncon . Mern . somfe
extracts , but [ should prefer , though it may seem childish , the publication of the whole , as an agreeable relic of ancient -piety and morals . s If you grant this request , by mentioning it in your next Repository , * I would send you a copy soon after , and , I , remain ,
in the mean time , with sentiments of high respect , and fervent wishes that the Divine blessing may signally afctend your indefatigable endeavours to promote the sacred rights of con * science , and the most enlarged views of civil and religious freedom , JOSEPH CHADWICK .
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grace to ooe sinner * vyitb so tftfpen ^ dous a sacrifice as to Iead ^ allotjtei * s Jo despair , ; neither 4 oe $ it imply a pmr ^ chased pardon , cor any of the ideas just recounted : a ** ense t may be a ^ signal to the word , and to others of
like import , entirely free frotn every such iniplication . That in the mediation of Jesus there was ? an atonement for $ in -properly signifies , that that mediation was expressly calculated to manifest the righteousness of Godan connexion wit&tbe extension of , gp « i it
< g $ t grace ; # n * k tliQr # w ^ that was in consideration of this , as a necessary provision , 4 hat Siijcji gatac ^ w ^ s r ^ ps ^ tended . By the righteousness of God , I mean that character in which he is
th ^ rewarder thp virtuous and the punisher of the wicked , according to his grand , scripture attribute , t ^ re ? wajrder > oC every one according to his works . > The forgiveness of sin is m 4 deed ^ always --a : lovely , sind gracious waving of the stricter part of this character , white in the otJieiy his
grace overfloweth all our d ^ servings . But it is only to the humble ; and penitent that his justice relents 5 and it is my object to maintain , that in connexion with this mercy , as exercised in the mediation of Jesus , the display *> f that more nwfui character is
expressly provided for as an important and necessary object ; JJaying distinguished my doctrine from unscriptural opinions on ope side , I must turn for a moment to the other ; to guard
against % misconception , to which the subject is equally liable : I mean that of supposing , that by propitiation ^ r atonement , we are only to understand the means by which reconcilement is brought to pass . This * indeed ,, is refining the doctrine till it is , entirely
lost and evaporated . If that which is merely the mean of enlightening the mind and changing the heart , is to be called a propitiation , because it leads to reconcilement with God , tlien , inde ^ d ^ the Bible is a great propitiation ; and Hol
so is al « o tl ^ e y t Spii- | t > witlioMtt which no religious impression ' ep *^ finally effectual . . yn t | iiB \ vte ^ . ; - «^ eloquent preaching and . co ^ i |* cji | g s iting me ^ p ^ wyt ^ tjh ^ wi ^? o fmitfiil mews tf ; r ^ $ e * $$ with God . Butt in trirth , jtfcerejbm
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Sm , Mmch 10 , iai 8 . MAY I request a place in your Miscellany f <> r a few suggestions on a very important , though much contested subject ? I am , Sir , one of those who feel unconvinced of
the scriptural evidence of the proper deity and pre-existence of the Lord Jesus , and who disapprove of much that passes current concerning the nature of his , mediation * Yet , when 1 compare the views of Unitarians in genera ] , on this point , ; with the word
of God , I cannot but suspect that , according to the custom of men , those who are avoiding one extreme are running into the other . Very scripturally indeed , as appears to me , do they protest against a deal that we hear about inflexible justice ,
satisfaction , substitution , imputation , sacrifice and the , like ; doctrines that . ; seem ready to subvert the plainest principles of scripture and connuion sense . Spt leaving thepe grosser ideas , is it scriptural to deny , plainly and blankly ,
that in the mediation of Jesus there was any thing properly of a propitiatory or atoning nature ? Surely an atonement for sin does not necessarily * Wply ^ r ^ nderiiig God merciful ; or the accompanying of the extension of
* We respect the piety ft ' nd , g " 9 od s ^ fase apparent K inthe Counsels ' , vb abstracted in line N 6 % cdrt : 'M pt 4 y / hn ^^^ -mmi aiibtbit to our worthy Correspondent , that tbey afe ^ riidcip ^ l ^ confined to objeota of Jiw )^ Wbi Jusftncdon . * I The 9 e , though highly ^ W o ^ o urp > iVJWMio ^ ? d . , « , /^ i 5
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1818, page 235, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2475/page/11/
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