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    With this view I shall transcribe the 11 th , 12 th , and 13 th articles of the Church of England .

    11 th . " We are accounted righteous before God , only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ , bv faith , and not for our own works or deservings . AVherefore that we are justified by faith only , is a most wholesome doctrine , and very full of comfort , as more largely is expressed in the homily of justification . 12 th . "Albeit that gcod works , which are the fruits of faith , a * jd follow after justification , cannot put away our sins , and endure the severity of Cod ' s judgments ; yet are they pleasing and acceptable to Clod in Christ , and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively faith , insomuch that by them a lively faith may be as well known , as a tree discerned by the fruit . 13 th . " Works done before the

    grace of Christ , and the inspiration , of his Spirit , are not pleasant to God , forasmuch as they spring riot of faith in Jesu Christ , neither do they make men meet to receive grace , or ( as the school-authors say ) deserve grace of congruity ; yen , rather for that they are not done as God hath willed and commanded them to be done , we doubt not but that they have the nature of sin . ' * I shall now make an extract or two from the Homily on Salvation . 4 * God sent his only Son , our Saviour Christ into this world , to fulfil the law for us ; and by shedding of his most precious blood , to make a sacrifice and satisfaction , or ( as it may

    be called ) amends to his father for our sins , to assuage his wrath and indignation conceived against us for the same . " Again : " And whereas it lay not in us that to doe , " [ i . e . to make amends to God ] " he provided a ransom for us , that was the most precious body and blood of his owu most dear and best beloved Son Jesu Christ , who ( besides this ransome ) fulfilled the law for us perfectly . " And again : " So that now in him , and by him , every true Christian man may be called a fulfiJler of the law , for as much as thai : which their infirmity lacketh , Christ ' s justice hath supplied . ' The following extracts are from Archbishop Usher ' s Body of Divinity . 4 < How was our Saviour to make satisfaction for this our debt ?

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    " 1 . By performing that perfect obedience which we did owe . 2 . B y suffering that punishment due unto us for our sins , &c . " What then be the parts of Christ ' s obedience and satisfaction ? -

    " His sufferings and his righteousness . For it was requisite that he should first pay all our debt and satisfy God ' s justice , by a price of infinite value . Secondly , purchase and merit for us Go-rVs favour and kingdom by a most

    absoiute and perfect obedience , &c . " jjv . i how can one man save so many ? - " Because the manhood being Joined to the godhead , itmakerh the passion and righteousness of Christ of infinite

    value i and so we are justified by a mt > n that is God . " Where unto was he offered ? * ' Unto the shame , pain , torment , and all the miseries which are due auto us for our sins . Fie suffer ing

    whatsoever we should have suffered , and by those grievous sufferings making payment for our sins . " The following is from the Helvetic confession of faith : SeeSylloge Confessionum . Oxon , 1804 .

    " Christ took upon hhnseff and bore the sins of the world , and satisfied Divine Justice . Wherefore for the sake of Christ alone , who suffered and rose again , God is propitious to our sins , nor imputes them to us , but imputes the righteousness of Christ instead of our own . "

    In theBelgic confession we find the following statement of this doctrine : " We believe that Jesus Christ , the great High Priest *** , who appeared before the Father in our name to appease his anger with plenary

    satisfaction . * * * He paid what he did not owe , and suffered the just for the unjust , both iu his body and in his soiil . He felt the guilt incurred by our sins in such a manner , that he sweated water and blood "

    Your readers probably will deem these authorities sufficient . If any however should not be satisfied with the above , they may look into Calvin ' s Institutes , the Assembly ' s Shorter

    Catechism , and different bodies of divinity 9 published in the last and preceding century , the orthodoxy of which have not , so far as I know , been ever questioned . From the above extracts it appears that the following things are essential

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    84 W . J . on the Atonement .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1815, page 84, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1757/page/20/