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    « —what , " ask * Dr . " M . ; u arc the doctrines of that description of Ch f » r flans , in the sister kingdom , who g lory , iii liaving brought down the high tntrigs erf God to the level of man ' s understanding ?—That Christ was a person , * st £ it into the world to promulgate ifce 'will of God *• to communicate new ,

    Rights , on the subject of religious duties : by his life to sit an example-of * perfect , obedience 5 by his death to manifest his sincerity : and by his resur-* iiection , to convince us of the great v truth which he had been commissioned

    to teach , our rising again to futme life . * This , say they , is the . sum and sub-% stance of Christianity- It furnishes a pVirer morality , and a more operative enforcement ; its morality more pure , xas built oh juster notions of the

    divine na : ure j and its enforcement more operative , as founded on a certainty of a state of retribution . —And is then Christianity nothing , but a nev £ and more formal promulgation of the reli .

    gion of nature ? Is the death of Christ bi | t an attestation of his truth ? And a ^ e we a fter all left to our own merit fpr acceptance ; and obliged to trust for © ur salvation to the perfection of our obedience V

    Here it is first of all charged on " ^ Jnit ^ nan Christians , that they " ' glory in having brought down the high things of God to the level of ' irian ' s understanding . " Really , we are not less acquainted than Dr . Magoe is with the works of ttiis description of men : and yet

    Wp £ re ignorant of the existence of a single passage in any of them where such a boast is made , either expressly or by implication . We jiave even found in the writings of a person whose rnemory they affectionately cherish the following Acknowledgment :

    < c No believer that I know or have rcjad of did ever object to any part of a divine revelation because it was beyond his comprehension . Let me but know clearly . that God has signified his mind «* n 4 will , and then , let the subject be ever so unfathomable by me , i "Will receive andbelieve k , because no better reason can possibly be given ¦¦ " » . ¦ ( a .

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    for any thing than that God hath stid * ¦ • - . . , . . : ; ., .. , , w . , . So much therefore for this calumny ! Dr .-. . Al . ftgec next puts tkt questions , —* - " And is theiv Christianity , &c . &c . " To which inquiries we . answer by challenging him to the proof that Unitarians have made these , state menu *

    We shall shew hereafter , and , in the just order of -.-re vising his volumes , the irrelevancy of ihe quotation on which he lays so wucfe , stress . ; — .. Jt is the practice of &ome cprjtroversialisU to insinuate that , the } £ opponents deny certain clerae | ita * - ry truths ; in the vuv ^ ieatipn of which they thu $ give them * , elye $ an opportunity of being more t ^ n usually zealous . Dr , Mragfetde ^

    cants , in page ; 14 , on the dc ^ : t ^ i |> jer of human imperfectjpTi ? _ Outf , ber lief in it , is , ^ ssurMly ) 9 Pt H $ * sened by our perusnl of his Wp rfe * Stilly we have in vain ^ rid | ayj £ HBi : pd to discern the pertinency - of tb ^ subject to the points at issue between this writer and Unitarians ; He is not just to nis cwn diq »

    fessions . For though , l ^ e f ^ mf&t sincerely wishes / ' page 173 " 4 ^ at the doctrines of scripture ^ ^ w ^ fje at all times collected pimply fipm

    the scripture itself ; and that g ^ je * conceived notions , anil arbit ra ^ theories were not first to ] tie fqrflp ^ and then the scripture , pre ^ se 4 , intQ the service of each fapcjful . dpgr ma / ' we have already , . fi&jjL ja proof , and shall soon be fqrni ^ d with many , proofs , jJh ^ t f pr ^ gn ^ ceived notions , arbityar ^ th ^ q rit ^

    1 ? Lindsay ' s Preface ti his Exi&ink Q :. tion of RobiiiBbii's Pldi ; &di ^ & Let our readers comparethwdcclaratlon with ChillinguorthSj . trapscribed io MQJL * Rep . Vot TX 7 2 59 . r > v .- O , » > $ Vx \ " •> . 'V \ r : z ) , crc ^ ru l . •< * c . rf& !\ . fcoO V

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    4 ^ 2 Riviexv . — Magee on atonement .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/38/