Excerpt from An Humble Attempt to Reconcile the Differences of Christians: Respecting the Extent of the Atonement by Showing That the Controversy Which Exists on the Subject Is Chiefly Verbal to Which Is Added an Appendix, Exhibiting the Influence of Christ's Obedience It is time that these indolent and contracted calculations were broken up. It is time that men discovered that the great mystery of godliness presents a subject for more than general and loose reflections that if there is any use for their immortal powers, it is on this vast and unfathom able wonder of redemption. And now if any are unwilling to harness themselves for a conflict with indolence, and to bring their minds up to pa tient and elevated thought, let them close the book here. But if they have entered into the feelings of heaven, and caught a desire to search into a subject which a thousand ages of study will not exhaust, let them offer an humble prayer and then begin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.