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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1818. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... same, and that the atonement should have been rendered the reconciliation; and in another place the Bible-translators have actually so rendered it. 2 Cor. v. 19, " God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them ; and hath committed unto us the word of Reconciliation: xaraXAayi;?." " We pray you, in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God." On this word, wrested from its analogy and plain import, Jhe doctrine of Christ's death being an expiatory equivalent chiefly rests: it rests, therefore, on a verbal fiction. By the death of Christ, which was the preliminary to his resurrection, we are justified; that is, reprieved, from the condemnation of death which "had passed on all men." By this also, as the operating and influential motive of our dying to sin and living to righteousness, we are reconciled to God; having been "enemies, or alienated in mind, through wicked works:" the light of nature having been extinguished among the Gentiles, and the light of. the law among the Jews, both which Christ was sent to restore: for God, who " in time past winked at these corruptions," now through " that man whom he had ordained," "commanded all men to repent;" and it is no where said that Christ reconciled God to man, which is the perverted notion of the redemption that is in Christ, but that " God in Christ was reconciling the world to himself." God is there-, fore the author of the reconciliation, Christ the instrument. Romans iii. 24, 25. Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God SEt FORtH to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. If faith in the blood which was the ...
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