Theological essays Author:Princeton Review (Firm) Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ESSAY VI. THE DOCTRINE OF IMPUTATION, In a previous Essay (No. IV.) we presented our readers with a condensed view of the early history of relagianism. In ... more »the course of that article it fell in our way to express our belief in the doctrine of Imputation, our conviction of its importance, and of its being generally received among orthodox Christians. This doctrine, our readers are aware, has lone been, nominally at least, rejected by many of our New England orethren. Without much argument on the subject, it has been discarded as intrinsically absurd; and it has not unfrequently been presented as an unanswerable argument against other doctrines, that they lead to all the absurdities of this exploded dogma. We have long been convinced that the leading objections to this doctrine arose from an entire, and to us, an unaccountable misapprehension of its nature as held among Calvin- ists. We therefore thought it proper, and adapted to remove prejudices, to state the common views on this subject, that our brethren might see that they did not involve the absurdities which they imagined. Unfortunately, as far as the author of the article under review is concerned, our object has not been answered. The writer, who signs himself A Protestant, is evidently much dissatisfied with our opinions. His object, in bis communication to the Spectator, is to impugn several of our statements, and to present his difficulties with regard to the doctrine itself. To our surprise, these difficulties are almost all founded on the very misapprehension which it was our object to correct. Although our readers, we think, will sympathize with us in our regret at many of the statements of this author, and feel hurt that he should have allowed himself to make the unguarded imputations contained in his piece, we ...« less