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* mek observations are warranted fa y some extracts we have laid before thepi from the former of these sermons of Dr , M Magee ' s , ' . , W $ these sermons of Dr , agee s , yy g
proceedy without further preface , to an examination of the second * 1 Hep the pr ^ cftef ii | idert 6 $ ; es tp inquire wfjat € * tH $ peculiar
nature and true import * ' of the sacrifice of the < f only begotten § on of God ** are . No article of JChristia ^ knowl e dge , as he in «* forms his younger brethren , is , on the one hand , ' * deeper
coff&enu'' and , on the other , there rrj ' - " *' ¦ P ' ^ - ; 'y ' - " ' "* ¦¦ ' ¦ ¦ " ' r ~ i ' ¦ ¦ - . ¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦ < ' 3 j $ f * none that has been more
studiously involved in obscurity . ** Thef objects of Dr . M ' s . inquiry fieing thus arihounced , we may well expect that his own ideas ^ 11 % e ^ stated with the utmost precision and distinctness .
It is matter of complaint with him tha ^ f the nature of sacrifice , as eenerally practised and under . stboA , ahtecedeht |] a »/ ec « rfen ^/ j /] to the time of Christ , has been first examined ; and from that , as a ground of explanation , the notion of Chrises sacrifice has
been derived : whereas , in fact by this , all former sacrifices are to be interpreted ; and in refe r * * nce to it only , can they be understood . " * This allegation is perfectly unreasonable ; the principle being gratuitous and the argument illogical . The Dean of Coikj and other champions of the popular doctrine of atonement , inform us that the death vf Christ
was as tiuly and properly a sacrifice « ts the animal sacrifices Glider th e . Mosaic law * " They ^ SJU . ^ mgreoverj , that since those ^ rjfices w <^ r £ ^ icaripm apd ^ ro-JHiiatory the death of Christ had
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that P ' r . Magee is not very con ** sistent with himself : and we Sre sure thjat the o ^ der of ^^ in 0 tijc ^ i which he recommends * is the re # verse of what the case demands , and has no countenance froni the
language or spirit : pf ^ phxLjM the Christian scriptures * ^ \ . ^ , ... . ;/
Various theories of sacrifice have engaged the attention o ( inayqgy learned and thinking in ^ t ^ b ^ c ^ together with the question ^ whetli ^ r
sacrifice be originally a divitte or a human institution , \ re har ^ «^ U wajs regarded a § i ^ drp ^ u ^ d )^ than useful . We do ^ t ^ l ^ fec there be data on which we can
advance witl \ any tolerable cfftainty : and th ^ tenrfetop ^ f qd | ^^ B investigations is to divert tk ^ n ^ R 4 from , the topic really at iss u ed from , the nature and degree of thfc analogy subsist ! ng between tfcie
Jewish sacrifices and pur Savioui ^ s death . . . . ... :.... ' . ,,.. ^ . Dr . Magee rests in asserti ^ ft without proof when he say ^ jj ^ Jf ^ requires but little acqyaintaQai
with scripture to know , that th * lesson , which it every where i ^« culcates , is , that man by disob ^^ dierice had fallen under the di * pleasure of his Alaker ; t ^ at to Jbf reconciled to his favour , and restored to the means of acceptably
obedience , a Redeemer was- appointed ; and that this . Kedeemw |^ , id d ^ n ]^ ii liii ^ ^ procii r | ; fqp repentant sinners forgiveness ea < l - ¦ : > : . _ U WtttKttKKt ^^^^^^^^^^^^^/^^^^ * - '¦ f 'ti - 4 * , ' -- ¦"¦ s- * "I fi' 49 , *•• -
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 493, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/45/
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