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    ^ ¦ * > - y- » -V ^ ¦ ¦ ^ , rA V . 1 . - ,. - ¦ - ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ 41 ^ ^ > ^ Retiew . —\ &r . Magee on 4 towmznt * ,.

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    th ^ t thf atithTyr ih ^ n ^ who K ' old : $ ^ ' lilgh \ rarjfc in the Irish church , arid is likely to share in its chief honours and advantages , was styled , by a late premier of this country , the first of our divirms ! If this be really his preeminence * , what must we think either of the qualifications anJ repletion of the celebrated men whom we have enumerated , or

    ^ df the proficiency of the existing J « $ ce » of theologians ? In iQ the , nr ^ t of ^ ur divines , ' * we naturally ..-fa ok ^ . for more than an acquaintance with books : in him we

    exrp ^ Q *™ a . so und , discriminating I \ j $ MgiBent clearness of statement , ' gr ^ cisipa and forc e of argu ment , ^ nuine candour of mind and ur-Jb&mty of language and manner . ' , J 3 gLit :. iii . Dr . Magee , whatever be hi $ - academical fame Tmd

    attain-;| noms , we find no such properties . . ty \ & : pages bear the appearance of . taiyJHg been furnished from his theological common-place book . 'JThey exhibit the parade of

    investigation without the substance of ; H « and reiterated professions of fcumility accompanied by almost ^ inform arrogance and pride . This rHUthor ' s treatment of the writers

    ' oa whom he animadverts , far from b ^ ing Christian * is not even gentlemanly : and while he triumphs in a fancied refutation of iheir blunders * he makes them

    an ) pie amends by his own . In a word , though we have often been disgusted by the bitterness and the artifices of controversy , yet the sight of them in this work is particularly fevoJdng . ; nor can we forbe ** adding that Dr . Magee resembles the leader of banditti i » Mc fe ^ ori * 4 ji 4 ^ the cona mahdei of an army regularly appointed

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    ?* n ( l traihed to hanotitgibfc # * ffare . ' j . v > -- * i& * . We are sensible that it be ' cbmei us to justify censures , ^ vhtch all who have not read these volumes , and , perhaps , many who have , may be disposed to consider as unreasondbly severe . This vve shall do by d pretty minute exa - mination of the discourses and notes . Let odf attention be oonfined , in this nhmber ^ to th ^ former of the serriions ; i ^

    It follows after a hanefsotrte cfe . dication to Mr , Piurike ^ a tabl e of contents and a prefatory address to the studenb iit tfivtttfty in the University of DtitHifif . -If those students have ntit y ^ t ^ ub . scribed the thirty-nine ^^ fr ®^ es

    ( and we believe that if is fti ^^ ttk - racterUtic of this univerkH ^ ^ l d ^^ ta require such subs ^ rrptro ir frott r ^ er sons before they tike t&etrs ^ iir ' Wid degree ) , we perceive ^ wo tlA ^ ro * prrety in their being tbiteadtln ^ d . The address itself does Irttlfe efeait

    to the discernment and tejnper of the writer . It is direqt ^ ii , to the prejudices , not to the-anderstanding , to the passions , flbi ^ to the information , of hi » ^ idlfrs . Dr . Magee is a theological o ^ &tgn *

    ist ; and , as fear magnifies and confounds the objects of its vi # t > n , he does not discriminate "B ^ fiv ^ en those who reject the ^ vTdeiJC ^ of revelation and those who ^ n » t ^ idmilting his own infallibility , presume to differ from hirh in Aeir

    views of its doctrines . If we ^ nay believe his assertions and insinuations , his antagonists are die children of pride , while himself i % all humility ! . . ' .. " . Z His tw 6 discourses occupy ^|> out ttxty-five pages ; the remainder of ttie voltes i ^ uig afevo « eam what

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page 418, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/34/