Excerpt from The Great Doctrine of Atonement: Illustrated and Represented in a Scriptural Point of Light, In a Letter to a FriendI will give you a fimilitude'that'will lay' before you my idea plainly Ii'a wife'and good kin had a num oroos family of children, they all revo ted from his~ government but the-elder [on committed treafon and ¿ed di¿ant from their -father's court, their rebellion ¿ung them into a fickn-el's of wild phrenzy and difor, der, the elder brother being -a phyfician oi 'perfefi fk'ill the father propounds to him, it he will vifit the rebellious, take his refidence among¿ them, and pre pare a medicinein pretence of the rebelliousdamily, which, ifreceived and taken, will be an infallible rema edy for their diforder, remove their phrenzy, and bring them to their right mind, they will return home-to their father's courts, conlefs their fault, an.d receive par don but'it'h-e undertakesit he mix-ii bear all bruifes and injuries while amongli them, -~witb=perieét meek nefs and humility, he mull bear all their'iniquities, and not avenge the wrong although they perfecute him e ven unto death now their atonement does not confiil: in the pains and (offerings of their benelaéior, but in the medicine and remedy provided for them now Chri-lt provided a table fpread, a table 01 life in pretence of his fees for the healing of their fouls but jullice was not employed in punithing the fins of rebels in Chri¿f for the healing of their io-uls.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.