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    sense , and that the apostle probably meant to teach , that Christ in his exalted state , was employing his renovated and enlarged

    powers in some unknown way for the benefit of his church , in a way which probably the apostles themselves did not fully comprehend ; and that there was no more reason

    to believe that Christ was always literally engaged in prayer , than that , in a literal sense , he stood at the right hand of God , which every one sees to be impossible , because an infinite being cannot exist in a human shape .

    There may , perhaps , be something very ludicrous in all this . But I profess that 1 am one of those whom Mr . Wilberforce describes as so obstinately dull , that I cannot discover it ! In the

    extract , however , which these good people have brought forward from the work of their Irish chieftain , the learned Professor condescends to be very jocose upon the subject ; and , after a number of remarks

    which , no doubt , appear exceedingly facetious to his numerous and judicious admirers , he sums up with an excellent and appropriate bon mot !

    Speaking of the interpretation given above of the word rendered intercede ^ which interpretation , however , the Professor will not venture to contradict , he adds , in his bantering style , "We are told , * that we may imagine what we please ,

    but ijhat more than this is not revealed ; ' of which it unfortunately happens that not one word is revealed , except by Mr . Belsham : St . Paul having simply said , that Christ is now at the right hand of God , making intercession for us . — God , however , has no right hand !

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    and interceding does not mean in * terceding f " As I acknowledge that I cannot at all understand what the Professor means , I must leave this brilliant passage to the admiration of those who can better

    comprehend and relish this Hibernian wit , and who are more accustomed than I am to banter upon serious subjects . 10 . But the bonne bouche is

    reserved to the last . These worthy good people , who , to save Xhefalling orthodoxy of Scotland , have ransacked the multifarious work of Dr « Magee , in which he has exhausted his theological

    common-place book in defence of the holy catholic faith , have discovered in this heterogeneous mass a passage from the writings of Mr . Belsham , in which , to his eternal disgrace , and to the everlasting defeat and confusion of the cause

    which he espouses , he has compared Jesus Christ to the Emperor Napoleon ! Hear his very words extracted b y Dr . Magee , from p . 129 , note , of Mr . Belsharn ' s Letters on A nanism * and extracted miuvi / s «

    •* v » x ^ « * ^ iiiuu > u » J t m- «<• «•• w < v *^ ** again from Dr . Magee ' s learned work , p . 486 , in this Book of Extracts , and now once more extracted from that precious

    selection , published , with the learned Professor ' s express permission , by the worthy members of the Glasgow Religious Tract Society , p . 24 , viz .

    44 Of a certain person , who now makes a very considerable figure in the world , it may be said with truth , so far as the civil state of the continent of Europe is concerned , that he is the creator of all these new distinctions , high and low , whether they be thrones ,

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    498 tteply to Dr . Magee . — the Inquirers after Christian Truth

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 498, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/10/