Identifier: 07244119.1178.emory.edu
Title: A dictionary of religious knowledge (electronic resource): for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922 Conant, Thomas Jefferson, 1802-1891
Subjects: Theology Religion
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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to be dangerous, andto pave the way, especially with the more ig-norant and degraded, for a larger license tosin. 4. The orthodox or evangelical doctrineis, that God is indeed always willing to for-give, needing no entreaties to be persuaded,and possessing no vindictiveness to be ap-peased ; but that a substitute for the pun-ishment threatened is absolutely essentialto make such a pardon possible; that sucha substitute has been provided by the lifeand death of Christ, and that forgiveness isfreely offered for his sake.1 The duty of forgiveness of our enemies isinculcated in many passages, not only byChrist and the apostles, but also as far backas the Mosaic law. It is required by theseprecepts that we forgive our enemies as Godfor Christs sake hath forgiven us; not mere-ly abstaining from personal vengeance, butreturning good for evil, and love for hateand injury.2 Fountain. The Hebrew word ain, signi-fying eye as well as fountain, refers tothe water finding its way up to us, in dis-
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Fountain at Beirut. same school, who assert that forgiveness isfree, being based simply ou penitence and apurpose of reformation, or, as some expressit, God always forgives the sinner, who hasonly by repentance and reformation to getthe benefit of the pardon, which is grantedbefore it is asked. The only object of pun-ishment, according to them, being the refor-mation of the offender, his repentance and re-form necessarily puts an end to all punish-ment. 3. The doctrine avowedly held by the 1 2 Sam. xviii.,6. See Ephraim (Wooi> of).—3 1 Sam.xxii., 5.-3 1 Sam. xxiii., 15.— 1 Sam. xiv., 26, 26.—6 Exod. xx., 0; xxii., 27; xxxiii., 10; xxxiv., G; Neh.ix., 17 ; Pea. cvi., 1; Joel ii., 13; Mic. vii., is ; Rom. ii.,4; x., 12; Eph. ii., 4.—« Psa. ciii., 8, marginal. tinction from beer, well, from a word sig-nifying to bore, which refers to our findingour way down to it. It was one special fea-ture in the description of Canaan, that itwas a land of fountains, the more allur-ing when

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