The Atonement by R. F. Cottrell

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 4, 1868

“The Atonement.”

By R. F. Cottrell

The work, with the above title, lately issued from the Review Office, has been received and carefully read, and I would recommend it to all who would have a full, clear, and satisfactory view of the subject. It shows the reasonableness of the plan of redemption; and how God can be just, and justify the believer; how the law is honored and not abrogated; and by making a clear distinction between the vicarious death of Christ for all, and the atonement that is afterward made for those that believe and come to God by him, clears up the difficulties that arise in all systems that do not recognize this distinction. In short, it fully justifies the law, and shows its perpetuity, shows in the clearest and most unanswerable manner, the meaning of life and death in the Scriptures, and shows the absurdity of those false theories in men’s minds, which have made it impossible for them to have any theory of the atonement free from real objections, as long as they hold these unscriptural theories, and fully justifies, in candid minds, the righteousness of future retribution, and of the second death.

I would recommend all to procure the book, and not only read, but study it, till the great principles set forth in it, and which distinguish it above all previous works on the subject, by the light shining forth from the open temple in Heaven, and the concluding work of our great High Priest, of cleansing the sanctuary, or blotting out the sins of believers, are stored in the memory, and ready for use.

The sanctuary, and the work of atonement being performed there in these last days, is the great center and radiating point of present truth.

R. F. COTTRELL.