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be supposed that we attach an undue importance to the opinions of the illustrious trio , Milton , Newton , and Locke . We are not disposed to 6 ay , " We would err with them ; " but we think thsiu concurrence in an affair of judgment no mean corroboration of the conclusions to which ^ from ' proper sources , we have arrived ; and while patiently ^ and we hope devoutly , searching for Christian truth , we feel an internal consciousness ~ but far be it from us to employ the language of bitterness or intolerance in assertingthat we are in the right .
Such works as the interesting volume of which we with reluctance take our leave , are calculated to advance the interests of Christ ' s kingdom , and the line here pursued is precisely that which , by the Divine blessing , will lead to catholic , evangelical , saving faith . Most sincerely , therefore , do we join with our author in the wish , that his volume
** — may enjoy an encouraging reception ; that it maybe permitted to take a station in the number of those pioneers in the road to improvement , which from time to time are opening the way for that more visible and striking change which may one day ensue , when a more auspicious policy shall have composed his unhappy land , and the disencumbered minds of men , expanding with their acquired liberties , and catching the progressive impulse of the times , shall turn with wonder from the political to the spiritual and mental evils under which they liave been similarly languishing 1 "
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Art . III . — Four Discourses on the Sacrifice and Priesthood of Jesus Christ , and on Atonement and Redemption . By John Pye Smith , D . D . London . 1828 .
( Continued from p . 480 . ) Dr . Smith , like many other modern and moderate Calvinists , as they are termed , is evidently dissatisfied with the common representations of the Atonement ; but what his own peculiar notion of it is , it is not so easy to determine . Much of his reasoning and many of his distinctions are exceedingly subtle and fine-spun . Thus , having asserted in the former edition of
his work that Jesus Christ voluntarily sustained the guilt and punishment of sin , he now tells us that he has omitted the word guilt , on account of the misconstruction to which it was liable , though it might have been retained , understanding it in the sense in which he used it , as denoting legal answerablencss , ( reatus , ) and not blame worthiness ( culpa ) . We deny the justness of the position altogether . We reprobate it as most false and unscripturaL But we just notice it here to shew the subtle and scholastic distinctions which Dr . Smith sometimes introduces , and which , we are quite sure , the Scripture-writers never thought of . From the want of simplicity
and clearness in his views and reasonings , we can only state generally what we conceive his opinions on the Atonement to be . With Grotius , Stillingfleet , and others , he seems to consider that God , upon the breach of his laws ) was m a manner bound to vindicate their authority , —to vindicate his justice and his honour by the infliction of punishment , if not upon the offender himself , yet upon Christ , who in this instance becomes his substitute , and thereby expiates his sins . From the ancient sacrifices Dr . Smith infers , " that the essential i ^ hteojusfliess of Jehovah rendered it necessary and inevitable thai &jn should be punished—that the sinner ie totally unable
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Review . —Dr . J . P . Smith's Dm&urses . 547
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1828, page 547, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2563/page/35/
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