Excerpt from Discourses and Dissertations on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice, Vol. 1: And on the Principal Arguments Advanced, and the Mode of Reasoning Employed, by the Opponents of Those Doctrines as Held by the Established Church; With an Appendix, Containing Some Strictures on Mr. Belsham's Account of the Unitarian Scheme But, independently of these considera tions, the very nature of my subject supplies a reason for the choice which I have made. For I know not, in truth, to whom I could; with greater propriety, inscribe a work, whose chief end is to expose false reasoning and to maintain true religion, than to one, in whom the powers of just reasoning are so conspicuously displayed, and by whom the great principles of religion are so sincerely. Reverenced. 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.