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      to the orthodox doctrine of the atonement : God does not forgive sin without a plenary satisfaction to his justice . This plenary satisfaction lie receives from the death of Christ , as a substitute . Christ fulfils the law for us , as well as suffers in our place .

      All the sins of believers are actually imputed to Christ . The perfect righteousness of Christ , active as well as passive , is actually imputed to believers . God does not properly forgive sin , hut receives a price equivalent to the damage of the trespass .

      On this scheme , the several expressions , the merits of Christy satisfaction to divine justice , imputed righteousness , imputed guilty substitution , the wrath of God , with perhaps some others , are by no means to be understood in any figurative meaning , but properly and literally . Such is the truly orthodox doctrine of the atonement .

      Some , unwilling to give up the doctrine altogether , have proposed notions of it different from the above - but those schemes ( as they have been called ) are neither truly orthodox , nor very intelligible , and the reception , which they have experienced in the Christian world , does not entitle them

      to much notice . It should appear that the object of the proposers of such schemes was , by giving up what is evidently absurd and unscriptural in the orthodox notion of the atonement ,

      to retain the semblance of orthodoxy , and to discover a key for understanding the sacrificial terms which are used by the writers of the New Testament .

      It will perhaps be observed that in the above account of the atonement , no notice has been taken of Dr . Magee , the great modern champioii of this doctrine . But the fact is , that I could not fix on any passage where he gives a plain statement or definition of the doctrine . Whoever will look

      mto Dr . Magee ' s book for plain statements on this , or indeed any other s ubject of controversy , will look there »« vain ; but , to boot , he will discover , that Doctor William Magee , Se nior Fellow of Trinity College , and * rofessor of Mathematics in the

      Univf rstfy of Dublin , and now Dean of Y >* k , had a * very different object in view , whicl * ( let him devoutly thank

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      the good times in which we live ) he hss parti ?/ , and but partly accomplished . The following ccmes the nearest to a definition or statement of any fining I could find : " The great atonement for the sins of mankind , was to be effected by the sacrifice of Christ , undergoing for the restoration of men to the favour of God , that death , which h ?* d been denounced against sin , and which he suffered in like manner as if the sins of men had been actually transferred to him , Sec . " He likewise calls the death of Christ , at different times , expiatory , vicarious * propitiator if , &c % &cc . It being nay only object in this communication to state the truly

      orthodox doctrine of the atonement , in the manner in which it has been really represented by its advocates , that in the discussion of it , its true notion may be kept clearly in view , I shall now conclude with sincerely wishing , that this subject may be dispassionately and fully considered in the future Numbers of the Repository . I am , Sir , Yours , &c . W . J .

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      J . T . H . on the Atonement . ft 5

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      Sir , Jan . 24 , 1815 . IT was with great pleasure that I read the notice , given in your last Number , that the doctrine of Atonement was to be brought under consideration in the ensuing volume , hoping that a calm and fair discussion of it will be the means of ascertaining the truth in respect to a point which has been so long and so warmly debated . It must strike every attentive reader , that the word itself is used only once in the New Testament ( namely , Rom . v . 11 ); and that , even in this passage , in the margin of some of the larger Bibles , the word " reconciliation" seems to be recommended

      as more proper . The original is precisely the same with that which is translated in this very manner in 2 Cor . v . 18 , 19 . And the verb , from which it is immediately derived , is translated " reconcile , reconciling , re conciled , " in Rom . v . 10 , 1 Cor . vii . 11 , 2 Cor . v . 18—20 , as similar ones are in 1 8 am . xxix ., 4 . ( Sept . ) Matt . v . 24 , Eph . ii 10 , Col . i . 20 , 21 . The verb itself is a compound one . And it is observed , hv the author of A Treatise on Universal Salvation ( generally supposed to be Dr . Chauncey ) that it properly signifies " to re-change , 01

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1815, page 85, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1757/page/21/