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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 50 LETTER XIV. On the Atonement for Sin, by the Death of Jesus Christ. GOD hath so loved the world, that he hath given his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but enjoy everlasting life. (p) Such is the remarkable language of the great Head of (p) John, iii. 16. When reflecting upon this text, and many others in the New Testament, it has often occurred to me that it would be extremely difficult to defend either our Lord or his apostles from the charge of egregious trifling upon the most solemn subjects, according to that interpretation of Christianity which denies the extent of human depravity, and the Doctrine of Christ's divinity. Thus, in the case before us, a Jewish Ruler, convinced that Jesus Christ was a teacher sent from God, solicited a conference with him. In the course of it, this Jew hesitated much at the doctrine of regeneration; but his teacher prepared his mind for still more extraordinary discoveries of divine truth, by saying, If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things ? What, then, is the mysterious truth for which the mind of Nicodemus was thus prepared ? Why, that God so loved the world as to send a good man into it That is, to send a good man as an example to a world that already contained many good men, and to give unto those good men eternal life Or, God so loved the world as to give, not his Son by nature, but by adoption and elevation from a state of wretchedness and poverty, to inexpressible glory at his own right hand Who would ever extol so wonderfully the clemency of a monarch that should pretend to give his Ili.-ii son to die for rebels, and instead of so doing should adopt one of the most indigent and wretched of hi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217302302 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217302300 |
| Weight | 0.60 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 180 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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