Discourses and Dissertations on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement & Sacrifice; And on the Principal Arguments Advanced, and the Mode of Reasoning Employed, by the Opponents of Those Doctrines as Held by the Established Church with an Appendix,

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1813 Excerpt: ... Dr. Parr, for whose general character and talents I feel, in common with all who can appreciate integrity and genius, a sincere and unaffected reverence, may think, that 1 have spoken too strongly upon this subject. But the impress of his praise is no slight matter; and the danger of its giving a circulation to what ought not (and without it perhaps would not) obtain currency with the public, demands an open exposure of the baseness of the coin, to which it would attach a fictitious value. In truth, mischievous as are the publications of Mr. Fellowes, I should not have thought it necessary to animadvert upon them in this place, but that the eloquent eulogies of Dr. Parr, joined to the writer's presenting himself to the public as a clergyman of the establishment, might, by throwing young readers off their guard as to the true character and object of his works, expose them to be misled by the false lights of a treacherous Guide. To such readers, the satis cloquentia, sapientiee parum, of the author, is imposing; the specious gloss of liberality and benevolence, which his writings wear, is attractive; the classic authority of his splendid panegyrist is commanding. And, as it was for readers of tliis. description, especially for students in divinity, intended for holy orders, that the present work was originally designed, it naturally falls within its province to endeavour to secure them against such snares, when calculated to entrap them into false notions of their duties as professors of a Christian faith, or of their engagements as members of a national clergy. No. LXXIII. THE ATONEMENT BY THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST MORE STRICTLY VICARIOUS, THAN THAT BY THE MOSAIC SACRIFICES, WHEREBY IT WAS TYPIFIED. Pagesi. (c)--The justness of the position here laid down will...