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withquj ^ ti ^ Uoa . "J l £ j nof ^ re , d ^ lared ,, ty £ . thepmjairag of sin ntust fall soine wa ^ 0 ana Rat an innocent person might undergo it as a suX ^ tituti ^ l&rr dfe ^ tliltyi latiSH the guilty escape . But it is declared that Qodwij | . a ^ un ^ a ^ tl y pardon the wicked who forsake their evil way and turn unto ttie Lprc ^ & $ d t | je honour of po 3 * s law requires tljat its offers of mercy shoulcl be fulnfleq as well as its ! ihf eatenings of punishment . 10 . In $ nej \ y ; e liavS abundantcause to cherish lively , grateful love to the Lbrd * Jesi ^ Chnst , ^ rid to glory in his cross , since through it we have all the bfessingk of the 6 ospel : but God even the Father is the Sole Original Source of them ; and to him be supreme gratitude , love , and obedience .
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Remarks on Mr . Elton's notice of the foregoing Summary in his " Second Thoughts ; ' * and on two other of his Erroneous Statements , Through some neglect either of the author , or of the printer , the word only was unfortunately omitted , after considered not , near the commencement of the third paragraph . I discovered the omission about three or four years ago , and supplied it in all the copies which I afterwards employed . That a mere controversialist should avail himself of the error , to fix a stigma on Unitarianism through one of its advocates , was to be expected ; and
sim p le ignorance might be excused in so doing , though the next portion of tl ? e same paragraph would have shewn that there must have been some error in the clause in question , since God is there represented , though not spoken of , as the Righteous Judee of his creatures . But I was much struck with perceiving , that one who knew that the Unitarians , both in their discourses and their publications , lay the greatest stress on that representation of the Divine character as a grand feature of the Christian system , had availed himself of what a slight exercise of recollection and candour would have shewn him must be an unintentional omission , in order to throw discredit
pa a . system which he once regarded as the doctrine of the Scriptures , and which he could not but knpw does not promise " an easy return to those who succumb under temptation , nor open a double door to careless customs of sinning" ( Second Thoughts , p . 93 ) ; though , like the gospel with which its believer identifies it , it delights to hold out encouragement to the wounded conscience , and shew men not only a Righteous Sovereign ready to punish the impenitent , but a Father to receive those in whom godly sorrow hath worked repentapce unto salvation , and a throne of grace where they may find mercy to pardon and grace to help in time o £ need .
I will not enter on an examination of the many unfounded statements and insinuations contained in the Second Thoughts . If Mr . Elton have now attained , views which prompte his own , spiritual welfare and that of those mpsj : dear to him , it is well ; and I , rejoice , in the hoped-for effects , while I rejoice also in the unwavering persuasipn that thefpuntain of living water is at least ^ quafly ppen to thpse w , ho retajn the opinion * he has left . But I
will employ tl > e present opportunity to ppmt ouf : t ; wp , ppsitions in his Second Thoughts in w , biph . Ins . oiyn peispnaj knowledge shpujd , haye prevented the assertjipns , fys has made * The first occurs in p , 44 * where he asserts thai ; " the Unjifarians quot $ the , tex . t , « . Wo / K pyfi yPtfr , own , sajvatipn , ' ( Phil . ii . 12 , ) and omit the succeeding te ^ < If op \ % is ; Gpd that worketh in you to wifl and to do of ^ ia . good pljaasuye . '" Wfo . & pnqe had in his posse ^ iQnadis ^ our ^ delivqred ^ with a series of pr ^ ppsitipns on Diyine Affen ^ fpjjn ^ dl ojfi thi § very texV an 4 de * signed to shew thajL on , tfopse whp do e&a&tfvfyur , tpwprjcout- tlfeir owasalr
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674 Papers on the Atonement .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1828, page 674, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2565/page/18/
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