The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-02-26 00:00:00

CHASE and to REDEEM men"—'

-`‘ to give his life a

ransom for many." The Lecturer, on the contrary,
Made him die for anything, but for the objects the
sacred Scriptures declare !
No. 13. In refutation of this, it is only necessary to
quote from the Sacred Oracles of truth, where they
tsaY! " For as (in the same way) by one man's disobe-
dience many were made sinners," (ti eated as such,)
" so (in the same way) by the obedience of oNE shall
many be made righteous." (Rom. v. 19.) What is
this but the doctrine of substitution, which the Lecturer
has so unequivocally denounced ?
No• 14. The sophistry here used is worthy of his
cause. Our works do not merit, yet they procure
heaven for us !—that is, we do not give an equivalent
for heaven !

No. 15. Trinitarians (who know the Gospel) believe,
that nothing but the infinite value of the work of the
s
°II of God could atone for sin : Unitarians believe a
111°141 life and repentance are quite sufficient. Which
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the two, judge ye, considers sin the most foreign to
Deity,
No. 16. Read Matt. xxvi. 39 ; Gal. ii. 21, iii. 2

.The
11,1%14 se wirabers correspond with the distinct heads into
4e. -we divided the lecture in Our last publication ; which

and the wisdom of the Lecturer will become manifest.
No. 17. Read Rom. iii., also viii. 7 ; Eph. ii. 1-10.

No. 18. Self-opinionated—ignorant of the character
of the living God—and blind to the deceitfulness of
his own heart, must that man be, who conceives that
his actions do not fit him rather for hell than for heaven.

No. 19. The very essence of Popery.

No. 20. Love to Christ, in the real Christian, is built
on the principle that "he first loved us." His children
are " a peculiar people, zealous of good works ;" " ab-
horring that which is evil, cleaving to that which is
good." And this, not in order, to be forgiven, or to
make " a sordid bargain for the skies ;" but, having
been mercifully and gratuitously forgiven, to show
forth the praise of HIM, who is the first and the last ;
who liveth, but was dead; " who was, and is, and is
to come—the Almighty." (Rev. i. 8.)

OPENING OF THE DOCK COMMITTEE TO RE-
PORTERS.—We most heartily concur with the senti-
ments expressed in the Liverpool Mercury respecting
the propriety of opening all proceedings, with which
the public at large are concerned, to public reporters.
We care not whether they be Radicals, Whigs, or
Tories who disapprove of light ; we shall always advo-
cate it ; and whenever we find that which is just and
right advocated by those opposed to us, we shall as
readily give them due credit and praise, for the same,
as if they were our friends. We are convinced those
who opposed the admission of reporters on the late oc-
casion, did so from the very best of motives ; but we
also conceive they have erred in judgment. We there-
fore respectfully suggest to them that they may rest
assured, that which is good will always be promoted
by light, while that which is evil will be invariably ex-
posed and checked by it. LIGHT—LIGHT—bring
all things to the LIGHT,—We shall ever proclaim. The
injudicious policy, built on a dread of publicity, which
has been pursued by many in former times, and is still
adopted by some, in our own days, has, we are con-
vinced, produced many of those evils and erroneous
principles now circulating throughout this country.

STATE OF THE NAVY.—A most interesting debate
on this important subject, took place in the House of
Lords on Friday last,—Lord Colchester opened the
proceedings by moving " for certain returns relative
to the effective state of the navy." We have neither
time nor space at present to comment on the debate.
We shall fully analyse it in our next; and we are in-
clined to think we shall convict Ministers of being
" pennywise and pound foolish."