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    let them sell thettiselves away how far soever ; and so the land must not be sold for ever—for the land is mine , saith the Lord , and ye are strangers and sojourners with me ; yet this servitude to the year of jubilee is called a serving for ever . If God should suffer sin ever to embondage man , how can it be truly said that grace has superabounded over sin ? If cannot , must not be : Christ shad not be proved to be weaker than Adam , nor incapable to destroy the works of the devil . He has said , O death , I will be thy

    destruction , repentance shaljMbe hid from mine eyes ; he will destroy him who has the power iof death , and swallow up death in victory . Now , how can death be otherwise destroyed than by the prevalence of life ?

    While I admit with you the evil of sin , as the cause of all the misery which men have suffered or may suffer , I cannot go the length of deifyingit as you do , by attributing infinity to it . When you term it an infinite evil , do you mean to affirm that each individual sin is infinite , or that this is only true of sin in the aggregate ? Sin cannot be infinite either in extent or in duration—because the Almighty

    has declared , that in certain cases it shall be blotted out—it must , therefore , in these cases , cease to exist where it formerly existed . Neither immensity nor eternity can be ascribed to sin , unless it be committed by

    an infinite Being ; but there is onlyone infinite Being , that is God . The idea of the infinite evil of sin , come whence it may , is not derived from Scripture . Be " the extent of the evil what it may , Christ has undertaken to exterminate it ; and I believe , with all my heart , that he will succeed in accomplishing the work which he has thus engaged to perform .

    The solemn denunciation pronounced by our Lord against the great transgression has weighed heavily upon the minds of many humble , pious Christians of timid dispositions ; and

    some ministers , even of your sect , have written to prove that it could only be committed by those who witnessed the miracles of Christ , and , perhaps , those of his apostles . There is one very material point upon which I wish to make myself distinctly understood , namely , as to the ground upon which all men are

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    to be finally restored to holiness and happiness . You appear to suppose that I expect this grand consummation to be brought about by the direct exercise of the Divine benevolence , independently of the mediation of Jesus Christ . This , however , is far

    from my thoughts ; for I believe that there is no name nor authority under heaven , whereby the salvation of men can be effected , but that of Jesus . I have already said that all things have been committed by the Father into his hand ; that rewards and punishments will be administered by him ,

    and so administered as to put down all authority and power that opposes itself to his righteous government ; and that this great work will be carried on until every knee shall bow , and every tongue confess that he is Lord to the glory of God the Father . We are expressly told , that for this cause Christ both died and rose and

    revived , that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living . It is during his mediatorial kingdom that he will adjudge rewards and punishments , both of which will end at that glorious period when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to the Father , that God may be all in all . Such a notion as this could not have entered

    our poor contracted minds , unless it had been revealed ; but being revealed it appears worthy of God , and a fit issue of that grand scheme of love which was founded on the death of

    Christ . One of your own people , under lively impressions of the love of : God , and of the power of Christianity , has said that he will make its blessings flow , far as the curse is found .

    c < Wherefore , if men assign a less purchase to Christ ' s death , when he died for all , as the Scripture affirms , than , the Justification of life , as the Apostle calls it , Rom . v . 18 , they

    wrong and injure the blood of Christ , and set too low a value upon it . It is not the bringing men upon a new probation and trial , or making them simply saveahle through the better use 6 f their free-will thaii Adam made of

    it ; and the purchasing of means and space and opportunity , as some would have it , that can be deemed , in any righteous judgment , a valuable consideration for Christ ' s blood ; these might have been obtained at a cheaper rate ; it is no less than the actual

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    400 A Friendly Correspondence between an Unitarian and a- CahinzsL

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1824, page 400, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2526/page/16/