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TO THE CHRISTIAN PUBLIC.
the gracious benefactor alludes to this act of delivery
from sins, through divine instructions, even at the expense
of his ow n life, and not to an actual sacrificial death as
an equa>l val ueor compensation for the sin pardoned, since
the New Testament declares that God forgives mankind
freely) wit hout any equivalent. Romans iii, 24, "Being
justified freely, {l^piav, gratis) by his grace, through
the redemption that is in Jesus Christ." So Romans
viii. 32, 1 5, 16, 18, confirms the idea of justification
by the free grace of God. For the further illustration
of this subject, I quote the paraphrase on the above
cited verse, (Rom. iii. 24,) by Locke, one of the great-
est men that ever lived, and his notes on its different
expressions. Locke's Works, Vol. viii. p. 304, Para-
phrase on verses 24 and 25 : "Being made righteous
gratis, by the favour of God, through the redemption
which is by Jesus Christ; whom God hath set forth to be
the propitiatory, or mercy-seat, in his own blood, for the
manifestation of his (God's) righteousness, by passing
over their transgressions, formerly committed, which he
hath bore with hitherto, so as to withhold his hand from
casting off the nation of the Jews, as their past sins
deserved."
Note on the word Redemption, verse 24: "Redemp-
tion signifies deliverance, but not deliverance from
every thing, but deliverance from that to which a man is
in subjection or bondage. Nor does redemption by Jesus
Christ import, there was any compensation made to
God, by paying what was of equal value, in consideration
whereof they were delivered; for that is inconsistent
with what St. Paul expressly cays here, viz. that sinners
are justified by God gratis, and of his free bounty. What
the gracious benefactor alludes to this act of delivery
from sins, through divine instructions, even at the expense
of his ow n life, and not to an actual sacrificial death as
an equa>l val ueor compensation for the sin pardoned, since
the New Testament declares that God forgives mankind
freely) wit hout any equivalent. Romans iii, 24, "Being
justified freely, {l^piav, gratis) by his grace, through
the redemption that is in Jesus Christ." So Romans
viii. 32, 1 5, 16, 18, confirms the idea of justification
by the free grace of God. For the further illustration
of this subject, I quote the paraphrase on the above
cited verse, (Rom. iii. 24,) by Locke, one of the great-
est men that ever lived, and his notes on its different
expressions. Locke's Works, Vol. viii. p. 304, Para-
phrase on verses 24 and 25 : "Being made righteous
gratis, by the favour of God, through the redemption
which is by Jesus Christ; whom God hath set forth to be
the propitiatory, or mercy-seat, in his own blood, for the
manifestation of his (God's) righteousness, by passing
over their transgressions, formerly committed, which he
hath bore with hitherto, so as to withhold his hand from
casting off the nation of the Jews, as their past sins
deserved."
Note on the word Redemption, verse 24: "Redemp-
tion signifies deliverance, but not deliverance from
every thing, but deliverance from that to which a man is
in subjection or bondage. Nor does redemption by Jesus
Christ import, there was any compensation made to
God, by paying what was of equal value, in consideration
whereof they were delivered; for that is inconsistent
with what St. Paul expressly cays here, viz. that sinners
are justified by God gratis, and of his free bounty. What