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    amount to this , that whereas , if no atonement had been made , if the serpent ' s head had not been bruised , * the generations of men , of every age and clime , would have gone into a state of everlasting punishment , without any

    regard to their conduct upon earth , and solely on account of the transgression of their first parents ; but now , in consequence of the sin-offering which the Deify became on their account , they are no longer to be rendered eternally miserable for the offence committed in

    Paradise , but only for their own want of belief , and such crimes as they commit individually , and die without repenting of . This was certainly a great step gained , but still it is a much more meagre result than that which follows from Mr . Krskine ' s system- it leaves each man ' s salvation to be worked out

    in a great measure by himself , and that , with fear and trembling ; whereas the new doctrine makes the atonement work it for him , and he has no occasion for either fear or trembling , if he only believes firmly that ( pardon being already obtained ) both are unnecessary .

    The end arrived at is , therefore , far more worthy of the supernatural means employed to bring it about ; and besides this great recommendation of the new light , it has , or ought to have , the farther one of putting an end to controversy on many points which have furnished food for it , for at least 1800

    years . Pardon being certainly granted to all , and an universal amnesty proclaimed , of what use can it henceforth be to speculate on the difficulties arising from clashing attributes , &c , which stood in the way of its being extended ; or to dive into the counsels of the Almighty in order to ascertain the mode in which

    those difficulties were surmounted , and the period when , nay , the very words in which , the discovery and adoption of a plan for that purpose was intimated to mankind ? All this has been the source of much unchristian animosity among Christians , almost ever since there was a sect called by that name ; but , adopt Mr . Erskine ' s creed , and si rife on these and many other points is without an object , and it

    Mr . Erskine seems to throw some doubt on this fact when he says , at p . 115 , " Evil ia still spread over the earth , and the serpent ' s crested and uncrushed head still towers above it . " Qu . Is this the orthodox view of the serpent ' s present state ? Alas for poor human nature \

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    will be felt that it is indeed contending de lana caprina , to fight and worry one another about them . Those , therefore , who are fond of peace , and tired of disputing on subjects which they cannot comprehend—all , in short , who think their time may be better employed than

    in endeavouring to unravel " unravellable mysteries , " must wish success to the learned gentleman ' s new hypothesis , and feel grateful for the communication lie has made of it in the work of which , for the edification and perhaps amusement of your readers , some account has now been given .

    I am , Sir , with best wishes for the * continued success of your excellent miscellany , Yours , &c , EDINENSIS .

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    Bishop Middleton on the Greek Article . To the Editor . Sir , To the new edition published by Professor Scholefield , of Cambridge , in the year 1828 , of this celebrated work , 1 find a short Preface , by the present editor , from which 1 take the liberty of extracting one paragraph .

    " With respect to the merits of the work , as a whole , 1 cannot persuade myself that any competent judge can read it without a thorough conviction of the soundness of its general principle . A difference of opiuion may exist on some of its minute ramifications , as well as on some of the applications of it in detail in the second part of the volume ; but 1 have read nothing on the subject

    that has led me to doubt the accuracy of the Bishop ' s hypothesis . The work at its first appearance excited great attention , and was examined with a keen inclination to condemn by those who were compelled tacitly to acknowledge how formidable an attack it made on the strong holds of Socinianism . It will not be thought very strange that by some of these it should have been

    discovered that Bishop Middleton knew nothing about the article . His work , however , has been both appreciated by the bulk of studeuts , and the demand which has long been made for it is the best criterion of its excellency . " I wish some one of our best Greek

    scholars would communicate his sentiments on this subject through the Repository . Meantime , let me point to the judgment of John Milton on Tit . ii . 13 ,

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    268 Miscellaneous Correspondence .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1830, page 268, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2583/page/52/