Notice of Recent Publications [pp. 443-477]

N.otices of Recent Publications.
bodies of flesh are consubstantial with those of the parents of our
flesh." The italics are ours. But what does this mean, unless the
very Pantheism the author disclaims, so far as human spirits are concerned?. The spirit in man he defines again and again as the " organ
of God-consciousness." Again, p. 115, "Man is, indeed, a tripartite
person made up of three parts which we can ideally distinguish. But
this does not imply that we can actually divide them, much less that
any one of these natures in one person can maintain an existence
apart from the other two." What of the spirit between death and
the resurrection? Still further, p. 118, "The trichotomy of Scripture
does not then imply the union of three distinct and separable natures
in man. This would be to repeat, and even exaggerate the error of
the old school of dichotomists. The ground error of the dichotomist
system is this-that man is made up of two parts, body and soul, and
that these parts are not only separated at death, but capable-the
higher at least-of surviving that separation. What would it be but
to make confusion worse confounded, if we were to assert the existence
of a third nature distinct from the former two, and equally with the
soul capable of continuing its existence in the disembodied state?
Once more, p. 119, "That relation of the Persons of the Trinity which
is called Sabellianism is the best expression of that which we hold in
regard to the nature of man."
What else does all this imply but a denial of three or even two
entities in man, and an assertion of one only in a three-fold mode of
manifestation? But we stop. We have simply shown why we do
not understand the position of our author, and doubt if he himself
understands it.
Yet the book opens rich veins of thought on supreme topics. It is
always fresh and suggestive. We hope to return, on some convenient
occasion, to some of the great topics it brings before us. If it does
not give an adequate solution of its great theme, it at least points out
numerous problems that need solution, on many of which it throws
important light.
The Atonement, in its Relations to the Covenant, the Priesthood, the In tercessin of our Lord. By the Rev. Hugh Martin, M.A., Member of
the Mathematical Society of London. Philadelphia: Smith, English &
Co. New York: J. Inglis & Co., 21 Clinton Place. lBoston: Gould &
Lincoln. 1871.
We welcome another addition to the able works on the Atonement,
yet to be noticed, which have recently appeared, and which develop
the doctrine upon its Scriptural basis, and according to the Scriptural
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