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    proaelytis&itig j which so much prevails ? Why else do we see those who profess to believe that there is but : one < 5 od 5 the Father , join occasionally , if not constantly , in worship addressed to

    God the Son , to God the Holy Ghost , to a Trinity in Unity ? Persons who da those things , when pressed on the subject , uniformly reply , ** We wish to be candid . " This is well ; but let us at the same time be consistent .

    Knowingly to bow the knee to any other being than the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , is iddlatry . That which it is wrong to do constantly , it is wrong to do at all : the habit does not constitute the crime , though it may enhance the guilt . I

    know it will be snid , that it is possible to hear prayers offered , without joining in the offering ; but to say nothing of the dreadful insincerity of appearing to participate in worship of which we disapprove , if we bow down in the house of Rimmon , shall we not be

    considered as worshipers of Rimmon , and shall we not uphold arid encourage that worship ? To all such who profess a purer faith , I would say , *• Come out from among them , and be ye separate / 7 lest by your evil example you cause others to offend \ and 1 would recommend our ministers to imitate the

    example of the Jews , when surrounded with enemies to their faith and ' worship , who , while they builded on the wall of their city , every one with one of his hands wrought in the work , and with

    the other hand held a weapon . Thus , while they neglect not to build up their people in holiness , they will be ready at all times to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints . VECTIS .

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    Clapham , Sir , April 12 , 1818 . COMMUNICATION from your A Correspondent Simplex ; , given in your number for January , [ p- 3 & , ] has emboldened another of your sinipie readers to trouble you with a few lilies

    on the same subject ; and let me first express my sense of the candour and ttfue nrtanliness with which you give place in your Repository , to sentiments which / 1 believe , do not exactly agree with your own .

    It has often occurred to me , that thosfcf who believe in the true humanity of our Lord Jesus , with whom I am

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    happy to number my simple seU ^ ma ^ probably run somewhat into ~* &fkl ~ ex * treme in the total denial , which they generally make , of the doctrine of Atonement . There is , indeed , a principle with which this doctrine is

    usually connected , which appears to me so thoroughly unscriptural , that I can join heart and hand with those who deny it ; 1 mean the principle of satisfaction , which is of this nature : that the principles of the divine government are such , that of an offence once

    committed , the full punishment mast be borne , either by the offender himself , or a substitute suffering in his room . Whence or how this is fo be provfed , 1 know not . To me * the Scripture teaches this t that both to lead to

    repentance , and to forgive and bless the repenting , is as essential and inalienable an attribute of God , as any of the glories that compose Iiis name ; that no justice requiring otherwise , is any attribute of his at all ; and , therefore , that for the exercise of mercy ai > d grace , no apology or safeguard can be needed ; nothing , iir short , thnt would imply that such mercy and forgiveness were an exception to his general rule $ . As it is written , "I , even I , am he

    that blotteth out thiae iniquities for my own sake . " This doctrine of Satisfaction I regard , therefore , as a fond thing , vainly invented , and founded on no sure warrant of the word of God . But while we allow all this , and cherish in our hearts this essential

    goodness of God , may we not suppose that in the freest display of his grace , something might be proper , according to the circumstances of the case , calculated to impress on the pardoned offenders some suitable lessons respecting both themselves and him ; sofciie * - thing tending to make a due

    remembrance of sins y of the rights of God and the guilt of the sinner ; something tending to preserve his grace from any abuse to which it riiight bfc liable ? Any suitable provision to secure such ends as these , W 6 itld surely be no exception to the freewess of' forgiveness , or the most exalted viewis of the Divine character . We are well

    acquainted with such management ira our social economy ? and the order- 'of Providence seems to present the satnc , when we observe that a man whose misconduct has in volved him initrouble , can seldom be extricated without the

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    316 ' Reply to Sfimplex on the Inejficacy of Ztnitarianism for Conversion .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1818, page 316, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2476/page/28/