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and fanciful dogmas obtain a willing patron in the Dean of Cork . ? If by the awfully mysterious truths of revtlation , pag € IQ he means what be had before called
*? the high things of God /; or the articles of a reputedly orthodox faith , we maintain not only that these articles are unscriptural but that scripture never speaks of re * totaled truths as mysterious . Unterrifled by his accusations and
comminations , we dare him to tbis corabat . According to the sacred writings , the gospel is no mystery : and if there are those who , by their creeds ^ would make
it to p&ss for mysterious , we fear ti * at the charge of " pride of understanding and self-sufficiency of £ ea * dn" will recoil upon their h&arfs * Of such raea we may say , tit&y are " wise above what is
writ"ten . ij ** TKe Sa&rfice of Christ / V observes D # . Magee * page 22 , * ' was never deemed by any who did not wish to calumniate , ta have made God placable , but merely viewed as the means appointed I > y < Jivi ] ne wisdom , by which to bestow fy rgiv <* i « ss . '
So ignorant is our " author of the writings of the popular advocates of atonement ^ and of the history' and state of the controversy on this topic ! To the quofetiorjs which Mr . Madge * has tatioqs which Mr . Madge * has
made'i n I ' epfy to the former part of the above Sentence , many might Ife added : and the verbal propqiitiibri which the latter part of it contains , may be adopted by every Unitarian .
- . We ... Aha ] 1 now give a specimen of the manner in which Dr . JV 1 . deal $ with objections u drawn firum ^ the immediate ^ language of * Sec his Sermon on Tht Free Grace VGod , fisTc .
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scripture" ( 25 , &c ) . Upon trie assertion i that it is no where s ^ fd in sje / ipttij : ^ tha t God is reconciled t < y us by Christ ' s death , but thafe we are every where said to be reconciled to God''' he offers the
following animadversions : "—it very fortunately happens that we have the meaning of the words in their scripture use , defined by no less an authority than that of our Saviour himself—If thou bring thy gift to the altary and there rernemberest that thy brother hath ought against thee , leave there thy gift he / ore the altar * arid
go thy way i first be reconciled to thy brother , and then come and offer thy gijl . f Now , from this plain instance , in which the person offending is expressly described ^ as the party to % reconciled to him who had been qffendext , by agreeing to his terms of aceomnto ^
dation , and thereby making bis peac £ with him ; it manifestly appears , ' in what sense , this expression is to ^ Bt understood , in the language of thdl ^ Hr Testament . The very words , " the ^ J produced for the purpose of shewi ng ^ that there was no displeasure on the part of God , which it was necessary by some means to avert , prove the direct contrary . "
As the Dean of Cork endeavours j n one of his notes to vindicate this
translation and criticism , an d p * portunity will be given us of examining , in a future Number , mif 6 the justness of them . For" the present , we contrast with his 66-servations the statement of P ^ ol ( 2 Cor . v . J 9 ) in respect " bfifee Christian doctrine of recdnciliJtiioii :
< s God yvas in Christ , reconciling the world to himself '; not impiiting their trespasses unto them . ^ \ i \ this passage the author , tt ? e instrument and the nature of " flie reconciliation * are unequiyoc&lly declared : the clauses of the verse
explain each dther ; ahd itrtolny by a very sfhg&'fair iinrfiUegitinia ' tje '>( ' .- V ' ' . ' W ' * ' : ' : ' ' U " ' '¦ : ¦ ' '•¦' ' '' - ' ' •'¦ ' ¦' - * - ¦** JJ ^ H ^^ d / IS ff £ / i * ¦? Jt * 6 W ' f Matt . v . 83 , » 4 ,
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^ Review , — Dr * Magce op Atoneyient ^ . ¦¦ 4 ,., JV 4 y 2 S
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page 423, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/39/
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