THE VICARIOUS SACRIFICE, GROUNDED IN PRINCIPLES INTERPRETED BY HUMAN ANALOGIES. PY HORACE BUSHNELL. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1883 BT 265 ·B96 1883 V.I PUBLISHERS' PREFACE. There has hitherto been no uniform edition of Dr. Bushnell's works. Appearing at wide distances of time, they have taken such shape as suited the occasion; and it has for some time seemed very desirable that they should be brought together in a more permanent and serviceable form. It was Dr. Bushnell's own wish that this should be done; and he has largely revised his books in preparation for this end. It is only to be regretted that it was not reached during his lifetime and under his supervision; but his failing health compelled him to elinquish the task, which his death has left to other hands to complete. In the present volume we offer to his readers the first of the proposed uniform edition, in which most of his works will be included. The other volumes will follow this as rapidly as possible, not in the original order of their publication, but rather in that of their relative importance to the public; and it is hoped that the edition, when finished, may prove so compact and attractive in form, as to fulfill the design so long entertained, and satisfy the expectation that has awaited it. CONTENTS. Page NO DOCTRINE of Christ's work has been developed, that can be said to have received the general consent of the Christian world. But there has been a perceptible tendency towards the moral view of it. Re CHAPTER I.-THE MEANING OF VICARIOUS SACRIFICE,.... What is to be understood by vicarious sacrifice, 38. What it does not mean, 40. What it does, 41. Love a vicarious principle, 42. Usus loquendi of the sacrificial terms, 43. How Christ takes our sins upon him, 46. Objection that God must be unhappy under the burdens of love, 51. All good beings in the principle of vicarious sacrifice, 53. Experi- CHAPTER II-THE ETERNAL FATHER IN VICARIOUS SACRIFICE, . 56 The fiction of a superlative merit, 57. Christ only fulfills in his sacri- fice standard obligations, 58. All good beings in this law, 59. God the same in the Old and New Testament, 60. No progress in God, 62. But his government is in the law of progress, 63. Par- tisan cast of the old religion, 65. God's love suffers first by deten. tion, 67. Christ is God, not improved but more fully expressed, 70. And God is what he shows him to be, 70. Current misconceptions |