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3 Phebest Comment $ po * i * bese terras is supplied by the Act * of the Apostles . If we take this
history a ^ our authori ty and guide ill respect of the topics qf the discourses of the first publishers of Christianity , it is plain that in their preaching Christ crucified nothing mysterious was included *
Ait -intelligible fact is stated ; we ineun , that through Jesus who was crucified and who rose again refission of sins has been granted to penitent Gentiles as well as
penitent Jews—that the resurrection of Christ is the pledge of the hiappy resurrection of all his con . distent disciples , the link which joins the present with the future Jlfe . r
Were the import of the apostle ' s language , Christ crucified , what I ) r » JMagee would represent , this doctrine either would not have been at all t or not in bo great a degfte , < € | o the Jews a stumbling block * && to the Greeks foolish *
Bessi , " Though the proper Unity of God be the main article in the ^ &ed of the Jewish peopl e * yet
they hot only fell , at different peridds into the idolatries of the surrounding nations , but , about the era of our Lord ' s ministry , ieVeral of them believed in the
pre-existence of hurnan Souls , and & 11 Were eager to be rescued from * nbje tion to the Romans . Now had l * jaui taught the doctrine of Christ ' s descent frbm a former
fctatfc m glory to our earth , his bcmntryineri , we conceive , Would not Jittve been so much prejudiced against the person and the claims
«» f Jesus of Nazareth , as they were * in < consequence ^ qf the mean ness <> t his cireuukbtancts and his di « - a Ppoiaim ^ x& \ vQf , ifreic : } & €$$ & wipectations .
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Af t £ tthe ^^ Qeirtiles ^ v it W . C ^ r ^ in that ir > tffe tfpctrine of an iqearriate Dnty they could se « no foofi ^ Jt ^ ne $$ * ... Their religions system abounds in examples of divinitit& coming downjrom heaven to take the human or some other forrjiif , Not a few of their fancied Gp 3 i likewise submitted to labours and
sufferings of no ordinary description , in order to fulfil the endjs ^ J ^ their incarnation . It must b , ej ^ lowed , too , that cases of propi tiatory and substituted sacrifices wejf not unknown to the . lieatJien
world . The tenets theq W ^ j q ^ assume the distinction of epanj * $ f licaly accord with the wr ^ fclie notions entertained ) by th ^ ^^ ifi ^ of God's moral character ^ , ^ g ^ ' vernment ! ,
Part of this first dtsc ^ ur ^ e of Dr . Magee ' s is levelled ag ^ I p ^ Deists . By conseqiiepce- it cftii-f . not affect any class of Christian ^ Unitarians , assuredly , ^ p ngfc t in the number of those perspp ^ vyt ^ deny or ridicule * the very
vpbtion of a mediator : ' * on tb ^ ptl ^ er hand , they readily a ^ mit t | i ^ n ^ r cessity qf revelation , , of l ) iv | np interposition ; aad the only question between the Dean of Cork r ^^ ¦ - ^» ^ ™^ ^^ r ¦ ^^^ ¦ h ¦ g p «^^ ^ mr
^^^^ M - ' 1 £ f * f ' -j * and themselves is , what the . s c ^ jp ,-tures understand , by a mediator ? In the arguments he addresses tp unbelievers we see nothing whicU should detain out attention . Abstract objections he answers by abstract considerations . We will
not affirm , in his own phraseolqgy , that he does this * with & peculiar ill grace ; " but we will say that his reasoning exhibits less precision and distinctness \ hhn characterize the labours of . some of his
predeceiisors in this field . ^ tie ^ ne is Wuch , uiiwoHHy < leclamfttion > n thie l ; wrfft& afiu fcfefttf-. teenth pa ^« ers : - ' »
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page 421, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/37/
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