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€ hristi * ms ^ afcd h } s inspired apostle ^ , may welt be regarded as its cob ~ dehination . < . . ' &' In ao ^ other part of the New ? Te&tameut can I find that this connexiao is iosisted upon , •• either so
variously , or so very repeatedly , as your correspondent seems to imagrae . I am aot aware © f there being more than nine or ten passages of Scripture , in which the connexion between the
death of Christ and the forgiveness of sins , can fee said to be expressly assarted * or clearly alluded to . One of tb ^ ae passages ( Coloss . i . 14 ) may he entirely dismissed $ since , in the judgment of Griesbach , the words , ** through his blood , " are decidedly
spurious . With respect to the remaining passages , * after the most careful consideration , I must assent to the opinion of Mr * Kenrick , ( see Sermon xiv . Vol .. I ., ) and indeed the opinion of Locke , Chandler , Taylor , Benson , Relshaui , and of all the most rational
commentators with whom I have any acquaintance ; namely , that there is little or m > allusion in these passages , to moral offences , or sins , properly so called , * but exclusively to the restoration of the Gentile world fttoni , their
condition of ceremonial impurity , to a state of religious privilege or covenant , siicfe as had hitherto belonged to the Jews alone . f I have not made these statements without caution ; yet it is not
impossible that I may have overlooked one or two passages , and if so , shall most gladly . see myself corrected . Let me not be misunderstood , however , in that which I mean to state . In many other places , doubtless , Christ is said to ha ^ e " suffered for us " to have
" died for us , " to have " given himself for us - " ybut with no especial reference to the forgiveness of sins , more than to the confirmation of mV doctrine , to the finishing of his
per-* 4 ohn 1 . 29 ; Rom . ni . 25 , 26 , v . 1 , 19 ; Epbes . i . 7 , ii . 13 ; Coloss . i . 20 ; 1 Pet . i . 2 , 19 ; Rev . u 5 . t It can scarcely be disputed by auy , that this is the ^ ust interpretation pt some of the ya » ssages alluded to . If tfyis he admitted , the remark of Mr . Cogaij well deserves the attention of T . F . B "
nainely , that this then becomes an indfs pataSbfy-scriptural interpretation when ap plied io all the other passages .
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feet example , of to Itef several otj ^ er befnefit ^ Trffich ' tJ n ^ taricins in geoeral ) ascribe to 4 ; he dead \ of > onc Lord . Inv deed , in mos ^ of these instances , the allusion ; clearly is to our ifOttPs bene
volent sacrifice of life life ; viewed a » an incitemtot to lo ^ re and obey him ; as in the following passage : *' . For the iove ^ f Chifet conBinaineth us ,
because we thus judge , that if one died for all , then were all dead ; and that he died for all * that they which live should not henceforth live unto the m * selves , but uato him who died for them , and ro $ e again /* I am aware also , that we are often said to have received remission of sias and
forgiveness of sins through Christ ; but with no particular allusion to his death , more than to hi » teachmg , to
hi » promises , or to his present exaltation . The apostles , in the course of their preaching , frequently declare , that which no Qiristiafi has ever disputed , that Jesus h the Mediator , througix whom we have received the Divine promise of forgiveness , and are
led into favour with God ; yet without any mention of this supposed propitiation effected by his death . $ Jow , sir , I must insist that these passaged are not to be regarded as merely indifferent in the present discussion : they are fatal to the hypothesis of youtf Penzance correspondent . Were the connexion between tke death of Christ
and the forgiveness of sins so immediate and so important a , s he supposes , it cauld not be that the apostlesr should thus repeatedly speak of one , with no direct allusion to' the other . * The writer wbose observations I am
? It will be observed s that I have made no allusion in these remarks to the Epistle to the Hebrews . 'Thi ^ drc ( itnstahce I hope will ndt be attributed to my entertaining the slightest apprehension that this Epistle contains any peculiar doctrines , but sotely to-thfe following rea ~ sons-:- ~ -l . The EpLstle altogether is of
extremely doubtful authoiky * SL'it ^ s ^ y le is so peculiar and figurative , that , it requires to be consitfer ^ d . separately ; ai ^ ti this ropiinuuic ^ tion is already too Jong . 3 , If the doctrine iu ( ju ^ st ^ caiuxo l be supported frP ^ x o ^ er nprtiqn ^ of , the NewTestamejlt , few persons will cpntep ^ l . even should they ' supbos ^ It taught iti Ihi ? particnifcr Epistle , to * ft ^ is therefore to be received as * Cferistiaii » 6 ctrfne .
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OSm Mr . Atttmari the ReinmtofmaFSii& .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1822, page 668, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2518/page/12/
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