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he chooses to denominate lllti&-t + otion&ik&dr Explanatory , J ) user tatiuns . In this arrangement of ^ litera ry composition there is the
same deformity which ihe , re would be in a building , each of whose wings is not only larger than the body , l > ut unusually distant from it : and it is , besides , a very inconvenient and unfair mode of
writing in respect of , the public . Dr . Magee , hpvvever , is , doubtless , entitled to select the method of proceeding which will best suit bis purpose ^ nd his cause : and we , roust wait upon hirn , not in the-path we ourselves should have
preferred , but on the road iti which he actually travels . Upon . the text with which he sets out [ I Cor . i . 523 , 24 , But we preach . Christ crucified , unto tie Jep ? s a stumbling-bloc ky and untj 9 ihe Greeks foolishness ; but untQ . £ hem ufiicA are calledth
CjfcLJU ^ T , e power God , and tAeuiptfom of God , ] he instantly oiFers thi | S cpfTiirjent : " Thft £ he sublime mystery of the redemption , should have escaped the comprehension , both of the Jew , and Hf theXJxfcek : that a crucified Saviour .
should have ; given offence to the worldly expectant of a triumphant Messiah , whilst the proud philosopher of the * teh < k > l ^ iturned with disciain from the humiliating doctrine , which proclaimed the insufficiency of human reason , and threatened to bend its aspiring head
before the foot of the cros 9 , —were intents , ^ vhich the matured growth of national < prejudice on the one hand , # p 4 the habits of contentious discuspoh , aided hy a depraved moral system Qq the other , might , in the natu-J * al course of fcnings , have b ^ en expected t 6 t > w > dtt « 5 ei- ^ rh ^ t the Sorj of God had
ae 8 S | gn 4 c < k jfrpjm heaven - y that he had disralpieci himself ,. of the glory , which lie Kad witK ' tlie Father , before the yorld began : that he had assumed the fdWftl ^ ftlie hufnb » est fend mO ^ t 4 egra d ^ d j « I imewrt x th $% submitting , f p * \ ife of
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hid eK ^ cd the * c < fce with a death of ignominy and torture ; and that . through thi * voluntary degradation and « nfaring a way of reconciliation with the Supreme Being had been opened to the whole human race 5 and an atonement mad « for those transgressions , from the punishment of which unassisted ieason could have devised no means of
escape : these are truths , which prejudice and pride could not fail ^ * t a \ times , to have rejected : "~ . , - -,-. , In the above passage nothing is
more obvious than the complacency with which Dr . Mugee assumes , that what he calls *'* ih « sublime mystery of the ^ ederajtjon , ** istauohtin his text . NoW
we are nrmly persuaded that ttoe verses before us , do not it \ £ ti \ 4 > &te any of the doctrines of Ciirt&til orthodoxy . If a man who h ^ i never heard of these tenets reajd ,
this moment , for the first tittir , the apostle ' s declaration , and compared it with what goes before ^ alid with what succeed ^ it would fee impossible for him to see ther £ fhe articles of belief which ar ^ terrlVtd
the Deity , the incarnatiou-aiid ^ e vicarious sufferings of Christ . To make it evident how mucfi these expressions of Paul ' s have feeen strained and abused , we will consider tbe several clauses : - c But we preach Christ crucified : "—The manner in which 4 he
proposition is introduced , prevves that a contrast with something which precedes it , must have been designed . Accordingl y ^ in ! he twenty . second verse , Paul 'had said , " The Jews require a sigti , an appearance in the heavens , the visible mark of a temporal Messrah , " . and the Grt-eks seek * fter
wrsdbm , " -that is , bhet fbesiitaleties of drscu ^ ioti a *> d th ^ eleejan-. ties of 3 tyfe . Bftt . he adds , ** we j ! yreiire \ i ChWST ^ tuRblfi && t ^ in other wordsj we , iitSd ^ ile ^ mnimFb ur-
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Bftiew . —• Dr . Magee on Atonement . 41 Q
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page 419, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/35/
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