Discourses and Dissertations on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice Volume 2; 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 a

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. 1839 Excerpt: ...Son of " What if ye shall see the Son of Man ascend up where he was before 7 Man displaying a still more intimate acquaintance with the purposes of God, and revealing truths which would be still more remote from your apprehensions, and offensive to your prejudices? ( Unit, the Doct. &c. p. 254.)"--or, as Mr. Belsham has it, --' go farther out of your reach, and become still more perplexing and mysterious?"--Calm Inq. p. 67. On the last text Mr. Belsham remarks, that our Lord had purposely employed " enigmatical discourse" in this place, that he might offend and repel his selfish hearers: and that, in the 63d verse, he desires them to look to the " hidden meaning" contained in it as the only thing useful. Thus we see, that the " inquiry into a plain matter of fact" (Calm Inq. p. 5.) turns out, when Mr. Belsham pleases, the investigation of the hidden meanings of the enigmatical discourses of our Lord, which at times he purposely rendered still more perplexing and mysterious: and this, it must be observed, not merely for the purpose of misleading those whom he immediately addressed, but with the certain effect of misleading thousands and tens of thousands of sincere and humble followers. For even down to the present day, under the supposition that our Lord's words meant what they plainly express, do we not find that the Christian world has remained altogether unacquainted with the hidden meaning of the last important text; New Testament. Of the text before us Mr. Belsham confesses, that it " is a text, the right under standing of which is of and might indeed remain fox ages yet to come unacquainted with it, were it not, that Mr. Belsham has, as he informs us himself, for the first time made the discovery? A...