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the deductions , therefore , which T made ]> efore from this point may be reversed . , \ s from the constitution of our nature , it is impossible we can perform an infinite duty , sin cannot be an infinite evil , deserve an infinite punishment , require an atonement of infinite value , or a Mediator of infinite dignity . The great point
that has always been urged in support of the personal deity of Jesus Christ , is the necessity that exists that it should be so in order to his making atonement for sin ; but if there is no such necessity , the inference is obvious , I admit that his death answered all the public ends which are ascribed to it in the moderate
Calvinistic scheme ; that , as the representalive of mankind , he offered a satisfaction to public justice ; that it was the same in nature , though superior in degree , to the sacrificial institutions of the Mosaic dispensation ; being a symbolical and vicarial representation of the consequences
and desert of sin , and calculated to excite and promote repentance and faith . At the same time , I will not deny , that I think repentance conveys all the ideas of individual atonement which God requires of man . It implies an acknowledgment that the divine law is holy , just and irood : that our lives are forfeited to
Divine justice ; that punishment is our equitable portion ; and that in future we desire to honour the great Lawgiver , by a course of exemplary obedience . As those only who thus vindicate the law of ( Jod and make it honourable , will be pardoned , while the impenitent will be punished , the honour of the Lawgiver is
maintained and magnified , and every purpose which the common doctrine of Atonement proposes is accomplished . I see sufficient reason for doubting the validity of the principle on which Mr . Fuller ' s View of the Systems is founded ; ind as all the grounds on which mv
former change of sentiments principally rested , have vanished , it is nothing surprising to find the system built thereon , " sink like the baseless fabric of a dream . " have no expectation of seeing any new ar &uments j n support of Trinitarianisin , Wronger and more irresistible than those ;
na though it may cost me your friend" ' P > I must , therefore , despair of ever bci able to receive it as the doctrine of ' ^ elation . DANIEL HAUWOO 1 ) .
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B ? 'ief Notes on the Bible . No . XIX . "As in Adam all die , even so in Christ shall all be made alive ; but every man in his own order . "—1 Cor . 22 , 23 .
IT is customary with Christian divines , in discoursing upon the subject of a resurrection , to assume that the whole human race is to be reanimated en masse , but that , however many ages individuals may have slept , they will be unconscious of any interval between their deaths and their
springing at once and together into renovated life . It deserves consideration whether this notion be quite unimpeachable . Though the sleep of death be so profound , that , on awakening from it , however protracted , it may appear like an instantaneous transition from
one state of existence to another ; yet the idea of remaining torpid , say for a few thousand years , till the day appointed for a general resurrection , is a very cheerless and chilling one to a virtuous mind , consoling as it may be to men of an opposite character .
May it not have a twofold tendency , to weaken the stimulus to virtue , and subdue the fear of retribution in the minds of the vicious ? That the final consummation of this
world's affairs is awfully distant , may be rationally inferred from a retrospect of its eventful history , its present state , and the mighty events and purposes still to be accomplished . *
The world has been nearly G 000 years in arriving , by slow and interrupted pace , at its present imperfect state of civilization . Christianity has effected much good , but how much remains to be effected •—it has made considerable progress , but what
immense regions it has yet to enlighten , and even to penetrate , —need not be dwelt upon ; and we cannot even imagine , reasoning from analogy to the past , that its destined effects will be
crowded into u very limited period . Nor , in the contemplation of that highly ameliorated condition of the human race which it has an obvious tendency to produce and ultimately establish , can it be reasonably supposed that
? Matt . xxiv . 14 .
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Brief Notes on the Bible . No . XIX . 329
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1822, page 329, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2513/page/9/
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