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his birth, it must remain unaccounted that it would require to be of the

for; that is, it must remain a 66 mystery," which is an idea that this writer would be thought to discard. (p. 4.) Once more, he has not suggested, that what he has written is the gospel in deed, but merely his conceptions of what is so. But why then does he speak of the sentiments he opposes as human systems?" (p. 42.) His conceptions are as much human as they

are.

Mr. S. pronounced his work "a feeble effort." I expressed my approbation of this part of his performance; and now he seems dissatisfied; insinuating, that "it contains, or may contain arguments which have effectually overturned the satisfaction of Christ." Thus the thoughts of men's hearts are revealed. You have only to acquiesce in their language of mock modesty, and your words will produce an effect like that which the poet ascribes to the spear of Ithuriel.

'Gross misrepresentation' was attributed to this gentleman. He calls for proof. It was not my intention, in so short a compass as was allowed me, to answer his performance, or I would have produced them at the time. Nor is it my intention to answer it now; yet I may give a specimen or two of unfairness, and that in things upon which his whole system rests. He represents the wrath and love of God as inconsistent, and insinuates as though his opponents held the one to the exclusion of the other (pp. 57, 58); whereas the advocates for satisfaction, while they insist, that the death of Christ was a grand expression of the divine displeasure against sin and sinners, maintain that it is the greatest of all expressions of divine love, which of course must have existed antecedent to it. The reasoning of this gentleman is as if one should deny the averseness of David to Absalom for the murder of Amnon, and the necessity of a mediator to save his honour in forgiving him, because his soul is said to have, lenged to go forth to him. Again, the satisfaction which Mr. S. opposes, is such as I have no recollection of ever seeing maintained by any judicious writer among the orthodox; namely, that the same quantity of misery required to be endured by the substitute, as was deserved by the offenders. (p. 65.) If this were admitted, it might not follow, as he alleges,

same duration; but, whether it would or not, such reasoning is puerile. The end of all just punishment is the reparation of an injury done to government, and the restoring of the authority of the law to its proper tone. If this end be answered, jus tice is completely satisfied. It is not the quantity of suffering endured by the substitute, nor its duration, that is of any account; but the effect produced by it upon the moral system, and which, on the ground of our Saviour's divinity, was as great, and greater, than if all the transgressors had been made a sacrifice. Again, Mr. S. writes, as though his opponents held that God has first revealed his will in unintelligible language, and then condemns men for not understanding it. (p. 63.)-Whereas we believe that the language of Scripture is intelligible; that it is not ordinarily misunderstood, where there is no previous dislike to the things represented by it; and that if in some instances it be so, such mistakes, do not expose men to perdition. Once more, popular orthodox preachers, in dealing with souls harrassed with despondency, are represented as not directing them to the glorious gospel for relief, but as sending them on a strange pursuit after the divine favour in the use of means and ordinances, urging them to cry earnestly to God to turn away his wrath, to give his Holy Spirit, and to work faith and holiness in their hearts." (p. 42, 43.) It is not denied that much of this sort of religion may be found in some connections, particularly those which D. Eaton and his friends formerly frequented, from whose account of things our author seems to have taken it; but that this has any necessary connection with the satisfaction of Christ, or any doctrine usually termed orthodox, is denied. Nay, more, that system, be it what it may, that directe sinners to the use of means and ordinances, as a source of comfort, to the neglect of the gospel, is false and dangerous.

As this writer speaks of Christ, as having by "his one act of dying restored the whole human race to the possession of every blessing forfeited by Adam's offence;" (p. 31.) and of the "doctrine of the atonement,' and "the design of Christ's death," as being the same thing, (p. 49.) I

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supposed he really intended to ascribe what he calls atonement to it-But it seems I was mistaken. The atonement for which he pleads was not made by the death of Christ. When he attributes to this great event "the hope or prospect of a future life," and suggests that without it, we had been subject to the "undescribable horror of falling into eternal nothingness." (p. 31, 32.)-He does not mean that "eternal nothingness" would actually have been our doom, nor that Adam was exposed to it from the time of his eating the forbidden fruit, but merely that it would have been so in our apprehension, from which the gospel, like the tale of a navigator, relieves us. The value of Christ's death seems to be merely relative, as affording him an opportunity of rising from the dead! (p. 32.)

Mr. S. does not write such "nonsense," as that Christ's death should in any sense reconcile us to God, and thereby furnish us with a motive for being reconciled in heart to him. Such "nonsense," however, was suggested by the apostle to the Romans. He expressly teaches that, if when

we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. The term, "reconciled," in the last instance, is allowed to include a change of heart; but in the first, it manifestly denotes only a change of state, inasmuch as it was effected by the death of Christ when we were enemies. Thus also he elsewhere speaks of God having been in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, that is, restoring them to his favour, by his being made sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righ teousness of God in him; and this is urged as a motive to our being reconciled in heart to God. Rom. v. 10; 2 Cor. v. 19-21. Mr. S. may call this "a sleeveless errand," but he has not shown its absurdity. And though he has said so much of the phrase, God hath reconciled us to himself, as being opposite to our system; (pp. 68, 69.)—yet he has taken no notice of what was alledged under the 5th and 6th particulars on that subject, together with the consistency of salvation being of free grace, and yet bestowed in reward of the merits of another.

In short, Paul's doctrine of reconciliation consisted of two parts-The first was accomplished by the death of VOL. I.

Christ, and while we were yet enemies; the last by the gospel of Christ, believing in which we become friends.

By the one atonement was made; by the other it is received. The one was an object of apostolic testimony, the other of entreaty. The former was the foundation and motive to the latter. But the doctrine of reconciliation, as taught by Mr. S. confounds what the Scriptures thus distinguish. It has no such idea in it as atonement, or the expiation of sin; and though he speaks of it as received by us, yet how this is true, upon his principles, is to me inconceivable. Nothing can be received which had not a previous existence; atonement must therefore be made before it could be received.

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