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vites . " This passage wants no comment ; it is upon the face of it a complete refutation of every thing it was intended to prove . With equal propriety might the Doctor have referred to every one of the Levitical sacrifices as he has done to that of the
burntofferings , and with equal truth he might have affirmed of each of them that , what is said concerning them is applicable also to the feast of the passover .
The last passage Dr . Magee refers to , ( 2 Chron . xxxv . 11 , ) we have already considered . Upon these passages I shajl make only one further observation , namely , that the Doctor refers to them without quoting the words : such a quotation would have been fatal to the whole
of his argument . It was to be presumed that his readers would suppose Uiat the word of a dignitary of the Church was to be depended on as to the contents of the passages , without the trouble of an examination ; in that case the Doctor would have been safe ; an examination would have led to
detection , and the pious fraud would have been discovered . The Doctor proceeds , with a kind of triumph , to give a summary of the whole of his arguments in the following words : * '' Thus , then , all the
distinguishing characters of a sacrifice , we find to belong to the offering of the paschal Iamb . It was brought to the temple , as a corban , or sacred offering to the Lord . It was slain in
the courts of the temple ; and the blood was received by the priests , and handed to the high-priest ; who poured it forth , and sprinkled it before the altar , offered it together with the fat and entrails which were burnt
upon the altar . " All these characters of a sacri fice the Doctor affirms ( without the slightest degree of evidence , and contrary to the plain truth of the fact ) to belong to the paschal lamb . It is no where called the offering of the paschal lamb . It is no where called a corban , or sacred offering to the Lord . We no \ vhere read that it
was slain in the courts of the temple ; or that the blood was received by the priests , and handed to the high-priest . We are no where told that the high-* P . 301 ,
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priest poured forth tlie blood of the passov 0 i % and sprinkled it before the altar ; or that he offered it together with the fat and entrails upon the altar , or that they were burnt upon the altar * On the contrary , the terms corban , high-priest , - altar , entrails , pouring
forth , sprinkling before the altar , offering , or burning upon the altar , never any one of them in any instance occur in the accounts we have , either of the institution , or of the celebration of the passover . The term fat is once mentioned , not as to be offered , or burnt
upon the altar , but as to be eaten in the night in which the passover was slain , and not to be suffered to remain until the morning ; for so it must have been eaten , if , according to the command of Moses , the whole of the lamb was to be eaten that night , and nothinq
of it to be left till the morning . Hovr tb 6 n could Dr . Magee venture to make assertions so palpably false , and their falsehood of so easy detection ! 11 We appeal to all the passages to which he
has referred , and affirm that they do not contain any thing in them to prove the passover to be a sacrifice , or that any one of the distinguishing characters of a sacrifice , as stated by him , beloug to that ordinance .
From these . observations we see what little reason the Doctor had to treat Dr . Priestley and his arguments upon this subject in the supercilious manner in which he has treated them . If , Sir , you think these remarks worthy of a place in your valuable periodical publication , they are at your service . JOHN MARSOM .
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Mr . Kentish on the Rev . Joseph BrethincTs Publications , tyc . A ? & t
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* JBirmiugham , SfR , August 6 , 1819 , PERMIT me to express , however inadequately , the affectionate respect with which I cherish the memory of the late Rev . Joseph Bretland . *
Soon after my entrairce into public life , I was honoured with his friendship : to his uniform kindness and candour I am considerably indebted ; and many are the agreeable and
instructive hours which I have passed in' his society . An individual more distinguished by purity of manners and a strict adherence to the suggestions of duty I have never known . He was a fine example in particular * Mod . Repos . XIV . p , 445 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1819, page 473, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1775/page/13/
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