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    Wflii ^ I wouW tioti forget that my respectful ^ ckttowtedgments ate due to your correspondents T . F . B . and G . A . for their attentive consideration of my questions on the Atonement , I beg to state , so far as the querist himself is concerned , that had they remained unanswered , they would not weigh a feather against the conclusions to which his

    mind is at present arrived on the subject . When 1 sent those questions to the Repository , it was in the early and imperfect stage of my inquiries ; and when the absurdities connected with the orthodox opinion had not pressed with that convincing force on my mind which , by a further consideration thereof , they subsequently have . I am now fully convinced that this doctrine will not stand

    the test of examination by the rules of reason and the authority of Scripture : that it is altogether incompatible with that dispensation of mercy and forgiveness which Jesus came to unfold and administer on behalf of his Father , the only true God ; and therefore I renounce

    it as an error , which has for a long time proved to me a source of perplexity and difficulty , and an obstacle to my real religious improvement . Under this conviction , I have been led to review the queries which I had thought involved such difficulties on the side of

    Unitananism , and have discovered that they were in good part founded in erroneous data and unwarrantable assumption . Without wishing to express the least dissatisfaction with the replies of your correspondents , therefore , I trust a few additional observations , as coming from the pen of the proposer of these queries , though they might be of no weight in themselves , will serve to shew that he is not discarding long-received opinions without earnest inquiry and reflection .

    The question to which my remarks will be confined is the second , which is on the nature and end of Christ ' s sufferings . This question turns entirely o »

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    !) " < ^ .. > f ; U ( f < j L . 1 J " 1 ¦ - . ) r U ¦ tbe pps&ioa , which I believe is staken for grafted by all parties , that these suf ~ feringe were u ^ pAHiMLLELED iii the case of any-.-otto * / human being . Hence , preachers awl writers , in describing them , have iaid the utmost stress on their supposed exceeding magnitude , and

    exhausted the powers of language on their imagined extent and intensity . Such , however , is the obstinate effect of systems on the mind , thafc . tAfe , as a fact appertaining to , revelation , is commonly considered as beyond all dispute ; and till very lately 1 had thought so too : but now I clearly perceive it is a notion

    which haa grown out of the doctrine of satisfaction for sin , and which , indeed , is absolutely necessary to be established , in order to prove that satisfaction a re *> ality . On this subject , as wellf as on that of the Trinity and others , the orthodox have betrayed their obtrusive meddling in the employment of terms and phrases altogether unscriptural and per

    verting ; and in their efforts to attach the most tragic character to what Jesus endured , as held to be vicarious , they have exaggerated the accounts of the sacred historians by language adapted , it is true , to their creed , but much stronger in meaning than is justified by the expressions of , the New Testament . Hence , amongst other assertions of the

    kind , it is not unfrequently affirmed , as sterling truth , that the fiercest wrath and indignation of Jehovah the Father was poured on the Son as the desert of imputed sin !• the feeling of which , together with what is called the assaults of hell , or the infernal attacks of Satan , constituted the most dreadful suffering .

    Now , if the New --Testament ? writers held this view of the subject ,: it is very strange they did not , when speaking of the sufferings of their beloved * Master , use terms and phrases more forcible and expressive in their import , as they certainly might -have done ; or that they should not have evinced , by ardent exclamations , those sympathetic emotions

    * I have more than ouce heard it affirmed in the pulpit , that Jesus suffered " more than the dajtnned in hell will to all eternity . "

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1828, page 629, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2564/page/45/