Discourses and Dissertations on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice: With an Appendix Containing Some Strictures on Mr. Belsham's ... Mr. Wilberforce's Treatise (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

William Magee

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ISBN 10: 1331787807 ISBN 13: 9781331787808

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Discourses and Dissertations on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice: With an Appendix Containing Some Strictures on Mr. Belsham's Account of the Unitarian Scheme, in His Review of Mr. Wilberforce's Treatise

Granting, then, the ease of the Mosaic sacri fice and that of Abel to be the same; neither of them in itself efficacious; both instituted by God and both instituted in reference to that true and effi cient Sacrifice, which was one day to be offered the rite, as practised before the time of Christ, may justly be considered as a sacramental memorial, shewing forth the Lord's death until he came, (1 Cor. Xi. 26 and when accompanied with a due faith in the promises made to the early believers, may reasonably be judged to have been equal] acceptable with that sacramental me morial), which has been enjoined by our Lord himself to his followers, for the shewing forth his death until his coming again. And it deserves to be noticed, that this very ana logy seems to be intimated by our Lord, in the language used by him at the institution of that solemn Christian rite. F or, in speaking of his own blood, he calls it, in direct reference to the blood wherewith Moses established and sanctified the first covenant, the blood of the new covenant, which was shed for the remis sion of sins, (matt. Xxvi. 28 thus plainly marking out the similitude in the nature and objects of the two covenants, at the moment that he was prescribing the great sacramental commemoration of his own sacrifice.

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Excerpt from Discourses and Dissertations on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice: With an Appendix Containing Some Strictures on Mr. Belsham's Account of the Unitarian Scheme, in His Review of Mr. Wilberforce's Treatise The following Discourses, originally composed with a view to your instruction, we now with the same design submitted to your more deliberate examination. In these latter days Christianity seems destined to undergo a fiercer trial than it has for many centuries experienced. Its defenders are called upon, not merely to resist the avowed invader, who assails the citadel from without, but the concealed and treacherous foe, who undermines the works, or tampers with the garrison within. The temporising Christian, who, under the mask of liberality, surrenders the fundamental doctrines of his creed; and the imposing Rationalist, who, by the illusions of a factitious resemblance, endeavours to substitute Philosophy for the Gospel; are enemies even more to be dreaded than the declared and systematic Deist. The open attacks of the one, directed against the Evidences of Christianity, have but served to strengthen the great outworks of our faith, by calling to its aid the united powers of its adherents; whilst the machinations of the others, secretly employed against the Doctrines of our religion, threaten, by eluding the vigilance, and lulling the suspicions, of its friends, to subvert through fraud what had been found impregnable by force. To aid these machinations, a modern and depraved philosophy hath sent abroad its pernicious sophistries, infecting the sources of morality, and enervating the powers of manly thought; and, the better to effect these purposes, clad in those engaging colours which are peculiarly adapted to captivate the imaginations of young and ardent minds. Against arts and enemies such as these, the most strenuous exertions of all who value the religion of Christ are at this moment imperiously demanded. In what manner to prep

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331787807
• ISBN 13: 9781331787808
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240