The Scripture Doctrine Of Atonement Examined First In Relation To Jewish Sacrifices And Then To The Sacrifice Of Our Blessed Lord Etc

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1809 edition. Excerpt: ...do it; and, I think, not without reason: for when it is intimated (that we may take in both verses) that the blood of the animal is the life; that God had given it to them (the Israelites.) to be offered in sacrifice for them; and that it was the blood in particular, that made atonement for their souls, or lives i what sentiment dees so naturally occur to the mind as this; that atonement was to be made for the life of the sacrificer, by the pouring out the blood, or life of the sacrifice in his stead? not to observe, that the blood in sin-offerings cannot reasonably be thought to have made atonement, ' as the shedding of it, &c. signified the sacrificer's devoting his very life to the honour and ser vice of God: ' because (as an attentive reader will, I think, observe) the atonement is represented to be made by the blood, not as signifying any thing then existing when it was poured out; but as something which had before been given and appointed to make atonement; and which therefore, in consequence of that appointment, had, as it were, a virtue sufficient for that purpose. See the following note. As to the objections, which you have 'urged against the notion of vicarious suffering; I shall take notice of them in their proper places. say, perhaps, entirely) upon his temper or disposition: whereas the sin-offerings at least seem to have had their effect with God, independently of that consideration: my meaning is, that, as the lives of the Israelites are supposed to have been forfeited to the Divine Being (by what means, it is not, at present, necessary to inquire); so the sparing of those lives, or God's being so far reconciled to them, is represented as the effect of those sacrifices, which were offered from time to time, according to..

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