On the Atonement And Intercession of Jesus Christ / By William Symington
On the Atonement And Intercession of Jesus Christ / By William Symington
Symington, William, 1795-1862
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We are afraid the idea is not uncommonly entertained, that the death of Christ was only a public exhibition of God's displpastir^ ^t sin, introduced Digitized by VjOOQIC ▲TONBMBITT. 189 dimply with a view to maintain the honour of the divine moral government. Not to mention other objections to this view of the subject, we remark at present that it leads to absurdity. Christy according to this, did not die for sitmers, but for sin. But sin, apart from sinners, has no counterpart in nature ; it i...s a metaphysical abstraction, a nonentity. Sin is a moral quality, which, like all other qualities, supposes necessarily a subject to which it belongs ; and it were every whit as rational to talk of redness exist* ^ ing apart from an object that is red, or roundness apart from an object that is round, as of sin apart from a sinner. / Separate sin from sinners and you have a mere abstraction, for which it is dishonouring to the character of the blessed Saviour to suppose him to make atonement. Add to all, that sin in general, — sin in the abstract, in.
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