the nature of the atonement. Universalists represent the work of redemption as a commercial transaction between the Father and the Son, by which the Son made a fair purchase of the human family by paying down, in his sufferings and death, an adequate price for the unconditional salvation of all men; and that, consequently, justice can have no claim upon any man, to punish him hereafter. It is true that many Calvinists take the same view of the atonement, so far as its nature is concerned. The only