THE

ATONING SACRIFICE,

A DISPLAY OF LOVE—NOT OF WRATH.

BY NOAH WORCESTER.

"

But God commendeth his love towards us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ
died for us.
ST. PAUL.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the
propitiation for our sins.
ST. JOHN.

CAMBRIDGE:

HILLIARD AND BROWN.

1829.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

1

CHAP. I. An Appeal to the Benevolent Heart.

5

CHAP. II. General Remarks and Explanations.

10

CHAP. III. Various Purposes of the Messiah's Death.

14

CHAP. IV. Atonements under the Mosaic Dispensation.

19

CHAP. V. The Passover.

25

CHAP. VI. Sacrifices not Substitutes for Punishment.

28

CHAP. VII. Opinions and Concessions of Theological Professors. 33

CHAP. VIII. The Circumstances of the Crucifixion incompatible

with the prevailing Views of the Atonement.

38

CHAP. IX. Vicarious Punishment not a Display of Justice.

CHAP. XII. The Propitiatory and the Righteousness of God-

or After Thoughts on Rom. iii. 24, 25, 26.

57

CHAP. XIII. The Veracity of God in regard to his Threatenings. 71

CHAP. XIV. The different Senses in which One Person is said to

die or suffer for Another.

73

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CHAP. XV. In what Sense did the Messiah bear the Sins of Many? 82

CHAP. XVI. The Agony in the Garden not the Effect of God's

Anger.

CHAP. XVII. Suffering for Well-doing not Punishiment.

CHAP. XVIII. Christ's Views of his own Sufferings.

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