Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

hard and unspiritual medieval crust which
enveloped the doctrine of the sacraments in stormy
times, though in a measure it may have made it
unprofitable to many men at that time, yet in God’s
providence preserved it inviolate and unscattered
for future generations... We dare not forsake the
sacraments or God will forsake us.”[38]
Their papal atonement doctrine
Westcott writes to his wife, Good Friday, 1865:
“This morning I went to hear the Hulsean
Lecturer. He preached on the Atonement. ... All he
said was very good, but then he did not enter into
the great difficulties of the notion of sacrifice and
vicarious punishment. To me it is always most
satisfactory to regard the Christian as in Christ --
absolutely one with him, and then he does what
Christ has done: Christ’s actions become his, and
Christ’s life and death in some sense his life and
death.”[39]
Westcott believed that the death of Christ was
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