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For my part, I cannot open the scrip. tures without perceiving the strongest assertions of the humanity of Christ and the unity of God; and how these primary doctrines of revelation can consist with those which you have adopted, it behoves you seriously to consider: the consistency between them, I will venture boldly to say, cannot be made out but with the help of idle fictions of men, which will serve the hypothesis of Transbstantiation as well as that of the Trinity.

With your new sentiments you have, I take for granted, adopted new objects of worship; and can you feel in the worship of Gods many and Lords many perfect satisfaction in your own mind that you obey the requirement of the" man Christ Jesus," which demands the absolute and unequivocal worship of the Father, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ? The questions of the miraculous conception and pre.ex istence of Christ have, I conjecture, first and principally puzzled you; but you ought to know, that however these are answered no way affects the principles of the Unitarian Fund, which are simply the Unity, sole Worship and unpur chased Love of the Universal Father.

You say you are still a believer in the universality of divine love, and yet you avow the strange and unscriptural notion of Christ's being literally "a propitiatory sacrifice for sin," by which you mean, I conclude, that God would not forgive sins without a satisfaction, (where then is forgiveness) and that he would not have been propitious or kid but for Jesus Christ (what then becomes of his eternal love ?). The scheme of the atonement is utterly at war with the gospel declarations of grace being free of mercy being a gift, not a debt-the spontaneous bounty of heaven, not the result of a contract or bargain. Where, my good Sir, does Jesus Christ represent his death as necessary to enable the Father to pardon his own children? In what other light does he ever place it than that of a testimony to truth and righteousness, an instance of obedience to the will of God and a preparation for a resurrection, the grand example of the merciful design of heaven to raise all mortal men to a state of life and immor tality?

I grant the word sacrifice is used of the death of Christ, as it is of the almsgivings of the churches, but in the one case as well as the other is, I am persuaded,

after a careful examination, merely figu rative. A vicarious or substitutive sacrifice the death of Christ could not be without being wholly dissimilar to the sacrifices of the law, not one of which was of that description; besides that it is in itself absurd and impossible, as well as repugnant to the express declarations of scripture, that one being should morally represent another, and that the innocent should be punished for the guilty.

You believe, I presume, that Christ was God, and that the real Christ died to satisfy divine justice; but let me seriously ask, Did God die? If he did, welcome Paganism and let Wedmore, which is memorable in history as the scene of the baptism under the greal Alfred of an army of Danes, be again signalized by a return to the heathen mythology. It he did not, then either Christ did not die or Christ who died is not Ged. You may distinguish between the natures of Christ, but where do you learn from scripture that he has more natures than one? You will probably, agreeably to the fashion of the times, allot him two natures; but you might just as well, as far as scriptura is concerned, ascribe to him two hundred or two hundred thousand. This is an awkward device to get rid of the clear, decisive testimony of the New Testament concerning the Son of Man.

Your new theory amounts to nothing at all, if God did not die; if it were a mere man that died, a man is then wholly competent to the work of salvation and the divinity of Christ is useless." But the union of the divine nature with the human stamped an infinite value upon Christ's suffering." There was no Union, if the divine nature suffered not when the human was torn in pieces.

Ah! my friend, there is surely in this system, which you seem inclined to adopt, a forgetfulness, if not a distrust, of the Father of all, of Christ as well as us. Why should not his appointment and approbation of Christ be accounted all-sufficient both for the honour of Jesus and for the efficacy of his mission? It is not enough, then, according to apostolic doctrine, that " God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power, and was always with him as he went about doing good!"-You may not, indeed, go all lengths with the believers in the divinity of Christ; but you cannot, in my view, consistently stop short of the horrid nonsense of God Almighty dying, in order to make God Almighty good and kind.

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