Excerpt from A Treatise on the Doctrine of the Atonement Christianity, like every other system, consists of certain leading principles, which are interwoven with its very texture, and have as close and intimate a connexion with each other, as the links of a chain; - if one be broken, the whole is dissolved. That the doctrine of the Atonement forms one of these principles has never been denied, except by those who have refined upon Christianity, till it can scarcely be distinguished from a system of ethics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.