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vHth , pp . £ 50 and 266 , that they who arerighteous do not depend on favour , but have " a right to the tree of life : " * for they , being the posterity of Adam also , would alike continue for ever under the power of death . How , therefore , could such acquire by their
Christ is described , but not of his sacerdotal . What , therefore , if here were added the influence of his sacerdotal office ; that thus the world became reconciled to God , so that now through Christ there is provided for all men , every where , a way of
recovery from that misery into which they had fallen bv the sin of Adam and their own sins , and of attaining eternal salvation ? This doctrine beingestablished , it may , 1 think , be shewn ^ according to the principles of salvation before laid down , how they who
never heard of Christ may be saved by him - ( y namely , because God as this author says , p . 292 , *) applies the grace procured by Christ , and imputes , on account of Christ , remission of sins and righteousness to those who , by the instinct of the light of
nature , fly to his grace and compassion , repent of their sins and implore their pardon . And thus the benefit which , where Christ is preached , cannot be obtained without proper faith in him , they obtain without such faith , since he has not been preached to them , through a gracious divine
imputation ; for God can extend his bounteous mercies far beyond the literal sense of his promises . Thus the salvation of all is procured by the propitiatory sacrifice of Christ . Such views appear to me not very different from those of this author , and agreeable to the gospel doctrine .
The last chapter 1 highly approve , f being convinced that all which respects the belief and practice necessary to salvation , is contained in the Gospels and the Acts , and that no new article is added in the Epistles . For , what some have represented as
new articles of faith are not so ; but either clearer explications of articles before delivered , or vindications of a doctrine already taught , from objections , chiefly those of the Jews . Of this we have a striking example in the Epistle to the Romans . Such are the few things which have occurred in my reading , and which I
* Works , p . 572 . -f- Ultimum Caput per oninia amplector , Tlie English Treatise is not divided into chapters 3 hut Limhoreh refers to the concluding paragraphs which follow the enlargement . on the five advantages * Sec Ibid . pp . 581—585 .
righteousness , a right to the tree of life so as to need no favour , since it was before laid clown , that all were delivered from that condition of unavoidable death , and this by the law of faith ? Whence it seems to follow , that such deliverance couM be
obtained only by a law of faith ; therefore not by perfect obedience to the law of works ; for , to deliver from misery , is of favour , which is excluded by the law of works . ] Nor upon that principle can it be satisfactorily explained how , as the author describes , they can be saved who never heard of
Christ , f For * if through Adam they be necessarily obnoxious to eternal death , from which , by a law of faith alone , through the grace of Christ , they are delivered , it seems insufficient that , by the light of nature , they have some faint glimmerings of the faith that God is merciful . Their
salvation , it seems , should rather depend on that law of faith which God has fixed as the condition of salvation . I observe that the systematic Doctors &re much offended with this part ; and are not satisfied with those five
advantages J which , according to the author , the advent of the Lord Jesus procured for mankind . I agree that nothing should be advanced to the prejudice of the truth for the sake of conciliating the systematic Doctors ; and whatever they allege
unreasonably should , in my opinion , be rejected with indignation . Yet it deserves consideration , whether such language ought not to be used as , though it fail to satisfy them , may possibly give less offence , and , in my judgment , afford a more exact definition of the truth . 1 observe , indeed , that the influence of the prophetic and kingly office of
? Works , pp . 563 , 567 . f Ibid . pp . 509 , 570 . ^ The knowledge of one God—a clear knowledge of duty—' reformation in the outward forms of worshiping the Deitygreat encouragement to a virtuous and pious life—the promise of assistance * * Ibid . pp . 573—581 .
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674 The Correspondence between Locke and Limborch , translated .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1818, page 674, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2482/page/10/
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