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and proper Objects of reward and puw Dishmeut , free agency was absolutely necessary to man * Hence results our capacity to obey or disobey God's call * to vield Co or resist the operations and
workiugs of his power in us for salva * turn . And hence the Divine equity of rewarding every roan according to his works , according to the deeds done in the body . _ . _
*« He thai commits sin works di * rectly against God , against the Divine call , the manifestation and operation of GooVia himself . This is the evil of sin- It is benee the guilt and
condemnation ariseth . It is rebellion against the light . The light shines in all ; - in * Every man that cometh into the world . ' John i . 9 . It not only is but must be so , from the very nature , the goodness of God /'—Pp , 48 , 49 .
" God and evil are in eternal contrariety , and as God cannot change , he cannot at one time be unreconciled , and at another time reconciled to the same state * Imputation of Christ's righteousness to sinners , so as to reconcile them to God iirwbtate of actual sin or alienation from him , is as
impossible as to reconcile light and darkness , or Christ and Belial . It is a phantom that has risen up in the fogs and mists of benighted minds . It is attempting to climb up to heaven
some other way than by Christ , the floor . And yet such is the power of darkness , that this is called magnifying the merits of a crucified Saviour , who never saves his people , but as he saves them from their sins ! He is
the eternal word , and as such is God . To us he is the emanation , or Soa of God ' s love /*—Pp . 50 , 51 . After quoting the words of Christ , recorded in John xiv . 20 , " At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father , and you in me , and / in you / 9
Job Scott adds , " This is the great naystery of godliness . God manifest in the flesh , is not confined to the flesh of that one body , " p . 54 ; and in the next page , after quoting John x . 30 , * ' I and my Father are one , " he says , *• Christ formed in man , is
m the oneness with the Father . The beg-tttten of Gad in every soul is one with him in the everlasting covenant ; * 8 truly so , in measure , as there was a real oneness with God , in the man Christ Jesus . I have said ye are gods , and all of you are children of the
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Most High / Psalm lxxxu . 6 . JTAnd ifchildren then heirs , ] and their dying like men , in the next verse , is , as it happened to the blessed Jesus , as well as to all his co-heirs and brethren . Of the declaration in Exodus , " Is- * rael is my soft , even my first-born , our author says , M This is true for
ever ; for Israel , the begotten and boiij of God , even when the seed of Abraham suffered in Egypt , was truly his only son , his first-born ; and hence he speaks of all the seed in the singular number . * Israel is my son , my firstbora / This could not have been true , had not this Israel been the seed of
-Abraham spiritualty ; and in the same sense Christ is so called ; that is , not seeds as of many , but the one seed , which is Christ , in all the heirs and brethren . This day have I begotten thee > is , through all time , the language of the Father , * Unto us a child is born , unto us a son i / given / Isa . ix . 6 , is as true at one time as
another , in the present tense , without looking backward or forward * "—Ppl 59 , 60 . " There is an eternal distance and
separation between Christ and all that is unholy . No grain of his righteousness was ever imputed to any souk but la exact proportion to its actual sanctification , or submission to the Divine will . What can be more
absurd thaa to suppose Christ ' s sufferings have altered Him , who is always unchangeably the same ? Or , that He sees us any otherwise than as we are , in our actual state and condition ?
I can have no expectation of salvation by Christ , without the fellowship of his sufferings , and conformity to his death . But blessed for ever be the
name of the Lord , I have known some * thing of the power of Christ to salvation ; 1 know certtiinly that there is no other name given under heaven whereby men can be saved . But who is thi& Saviour ? 'I , even I am the Lord , and besides me there is no Saviour / Isa . xliii . 11 . "—P . 68 .
After observing that *• some of the greatest sons of natural science ,. the very darlings of genius , and masters of reason , have been and now are Deists , " our author adds , ^ And , I confess , I see nothing so absurb in Deism , at kaat nothing so repugnaSSt' to the good sense and common : understanding of mankind , as 1 sefe in what eoirus
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Characeerand Writing * * f Job Scote x the American Quaker . 26 T
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1825, page 267, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2536/page/11/
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