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mandtnents sanctioned by the Romish Church . The late Mr . Granville Sharp has gone farther into the subject , in his
•• Remarks on the Catechism recommended by the four R . C . Archbishops of Ireland , " 1810 . At p . 30 he says , inaccurately , according to Mr . Hallett ' s and R . H . ' s accounts of Austin , that ** the first attempts to suppress the second commandment—must have
been made in very dark times of Popery . In the subsequent pages he has collected much curious information , and , notwithstanding his horror of Popery , has not failed to do justice to several Catholic editions of the
commandments , in which they are arranged like those published by the Protestants . C . D .
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^ SlR , fTnHERE is not any thing , in read-JL ing controversy , more disgusting than the conviction , or even the suspicion , that the writer misrepresents his opponent ; and gives such statements of his sentiments and of his
reasonings in support of them , as are calculated to make them appear ridiculous , and thereby endeavouring to create a prejudice in the minds of Jns readers against him and the doctrines he advocates , and in favour of his own dogmas . Every man , as he has an
undoubted right to think for himself on all theological subjects , has also an equal right to defend what he sincerely believes to be the truth ; but if in doing this he treats with contempt those who have defended opposite sentiments , as hardly possessed of common sense , and as incapable of
sound reasoning and argument , although men of equal learning and piety with himself , and so stating their arguments as to give them the air of being trifling , impertinent and absurd , he who does this exposes himself to severe ' and merited censure , and betrays the weakness of the cause he attempts to defend .
I have been led to these remarks by the manner in which Dr . Priestley is treated by Dr . Magee , in various instances , in his " Discourses and Dissertations on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice . " I shall select and make soine observations on one instance , as a specimen
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468 Remarks on Dr . Mdgees Arguments to prbve the Passover to be a Sacrifice
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of Dr . Magee ' s manner of treating Dr . Priestley , and of the way in which he combats his arguments . In No . XXXV . •¦ ( which he entitles ) * On the Arguments by which it is attempted to prove the Passover
not to be a Sacrifice , " he says , " It is a curious fact , that the declaration of St Paul , ( 1 Cor . v . 7 , ) that Christ our passover is sacrificed for us , is adduced by Dr . Priestley , ( Theol . Repos . I . 215 , ) as a convincing proof that Christ was not sacrificed at all . ' * I am inclined to think that this is a
gross misrepresentation , or else that ,, if the Doctor has said any thing like it , what he has said is so stated and perverted as not to convey the meaning he intended to convey . 1 have not the worfe referred to by me , or I would have examined into the truth of this
" curious fact . " Some of your Correspondents , who are in possession of the Theological Repository , will , perhaps , explain this matter . Dr . Magee goes on to quote the Doctor as saving , 4 t It follows from
the allusion to the Paschal lamb , " contained in this passage and others of the New Testament , " that the death of Christ is called a sacrifice , only hy way of figure ; because these two * ( namely , sacrifice and the paschal lamb ) " are quite different and
inconsistent ideas : and the argument by which he endeavours to establish this , is not less extraordinary than the position itself , as it brings forward an instance , in which one of these totally different and inconsistent ideas is expressly called in the Old Testament
by the name of the other ; the passover being in the passage which he quotes from Exod . xii . £ 7 , directly termed the sacrifice of the Lords passover . " " This , " says Magee , " seems an odd species of logic" Had we the
Doctor ' s piece before us , or had Dr . Magee given us a fair , ungarbled quotation of what he has said upon the subject , we should , I have no doubt , be convinced that this contemptuous
sneer at the Doctor ' s logic is impertinent , ungenerous , and without any foundation . Is it conceivable that Dr . Priestley would assert that * ' the passover was riot a sacrifice ., and that sacrifice and the paschal lamb are two * Page 297 > 4 tU edition .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1819, page 468, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1775/page/8/
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