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Sacrifices which he offers to a malignant power, come into the most frightful collision with those which the Scripture gives for the Sacrifice wherewith God is well pleased. There may be myriads of aspects of this cardinal doctrine which I have perceived very imperfectly, and into which I shall rejoice to enter more deeply. But they must be such aspects as do not interfere with and invert the very nature and meaning of the Sacrifice. The more unspeakably precious we consider it to each man and for all mankind, the more vehement shall we be in protesting against misrepresentations of it, which are leading more than we know or can count, to cast it out of their thoughts altogether.

I would make a similar remark in reference to the Essays on the Resurrection and the Judgment Day, which I have altered very slightly. It has been affirmed that I have sought to explain away the doctrines of the Resurrection of the Body, and of Christ's final Judgment; or at least, to throw an atmosphere of doubt over them. I affirm that I have endeavored to bring forth these doctrines, which I hold to be most vital and necessary, out of the atmosphere of doubt, which popular theories, as it seems to me, have thrown over them. do not say in any case who does or does not hold these theories, or any modification of them. But I find that they have darkened and are darkening the faith of multitudes in the articles of the Creed, and are destroying their practical effect on many more. Therefore I have spoken. Unitarians are probably less pleased with my words on these subjects than any other persons. I did not write to please them, or anybody, but to maintain