Excerpt from Discourses and Dissertations of the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice: And on the Principal Arguments Advanced, and the Mode of Reasoning Employed, by the Opponents of Those Doctrines as Held by the Established Church This view of the subject receives strength from the terms of expostulation in which God addresses Gain, on his expressing resentment at the rejection of his offering, and the accept ance of Abel's. The words in the present ver sion are, If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted 2 and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door, (gen. Iv. - which words, as they stand connected in the context, su ply no very satisfactory meaning, and have ong served to exercise the ingenuity of commenta tors to but little purpose. But if the word, which is here translated sin, be rendered, as we find it in a great variety of passages in the Old Testament, a sin the reading of the passage then becomes, If thou doest well, shalt thou not be acce ted and if thou doest not well, a sin-offering ieth even at the door, (n o. LXV.) The connection is thus rendered evident. God rebukes Cain for not conform ing to that species of sacrifice, which had been offered by Abel. He refers to it, as a matter of known injunction; and hereby points out the ground of distinction, in his treatment of him and his brother and thus, in direct terms, enforces the observance of animal sacrifice. 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.