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    them , he infers , first , that the doctrine of the forgiveness of sins upon repentance is not a doctrine peculiar to the gospel of Christ ; and , secondly , that we ought to be thankful to

    God that we are assured of forgiveness , upon such . clear and unexceptionable authority . We have to lament , that some of the passages quoted are not referred , in the margin , to the places where they are severally to be found . Sermon the twenty-eighth bears for its title , <* On the

    Design and Ends of the Death of Christ" ( i Cor . i . 22—24 . For the Jews required /* &c . ) Our author observes , that there is often a language m facts which speaks as strongly as words can do . tie inquires , therefore , what is the obvious design of the death of Christ , as it may be inferred- from the fact itself ? This he finds to be its intimate connexion with the resurrection of Jesus , viewed as a proof and illustration of his doctrine of a future universal resurrection ; and we cordially agree with him in the opinion , that whatever degree of impc * rtanca and utility belongs to the resurrection of our Lord , must belong also to his death . Hence the necessity of his dying'by crucifixion , e . g . that the fact of his death might be notorious and

    indisputable . The more certainly we know that he died , the xnore certainly do we know that he rose from the dead . Accordingly the principal subject of Paul ' s discourses was the resurrection of Jesus , and , as connected with that event ,, and requisite to prove it , his crucifixion . Here , likewise , we perceive the reason why the apostles represent the death of Christ as having , such powerful moral influence , in cleansing men

    from the guilt , and deuvering them from , the consequences qi ifoeir sins . See Tit . ii . 14 . Eph . v . 25—27 . 1 Pet . ii . 24 . Rev . u 5 * though it should be recollected ,, that the important benefits attributed in these passages to the death of Jesus are , in other places , ascribed to his resurrection . ( Rom . iv . 25 . v . 10 . viii . 34 . 1 Pet . i . 3 .

    While the main purpose of our divine Master ' s death was to afford us the best evidence of a future life , by giving us , in his own person , an example of a resurrection from the dead , some secondary and subordinate ends were answered by the same event : by it the truth of his pretensions to a commission from Qod was established ; and , as he died with the best

    temper of rnind ,. he is described as intending to afford us an example of the disposition with which we ought to -bear sufferings . From the leading view taken by Mr . K . of the death of Christy he shews in what respects this event differs from the death of other martyrs to truth , deduces an argument in favour of the humajfyty of our Lord , and points out the -pernicious coza ~

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    314 JZcnrick ' s Sermons .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 314, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/34/