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ft > r evidence and facts . Cain is rejected , not because he was a murderer , but because his sacrifice was of vegetables ! Such is the divinity , such the hateful , ritHculo u * arrogance , of a man ' who * it Urould ser tn , makes loud pretensions to huitiitity > and ranks among the nnnhtexsoi ^ Protestant chnrcbl
He forgets that although ) for the most part , the death of an animal waa prescribed on occasion of transgressions of the ceremonial law , yet in some instances , and those not a few , other sacrifices were accepted . It is therefore
rather generally than universally true that without shedding of blood there is no remission ; this being a proverbial expression which , we should interpret comparatively and hot literall y * * Why the Levitical rites were appointed to the people of Israel ^ God himself has condescended to inform us : and with
fcbis information we are satisfied ; ** O that there were such a heart in" them that they would fear me and keep my commandments al-V ) mys , that it wight be well faith them and with their children for cverf"i .
C The sacrifices of the law , * ' argues Dr . Magcc , " being preparatory to that af Christ ; the law itself heing but a schoolmaster to bring us to Christ ; the sacred writers in the New Testament naturally adopt the sacrificial terms of the * ercmontai service , and > by their
reference to the use of them as employed glider the law , clearly point out the sense in which they are to be understood in their application under the gospel . In examining , then , the meaning of such
terms , when they occur in the New Tes . tsunent , we ate clearly directed to the explanation that is circumstantially given of them in the Old * Thus , when we find the virtue of atonement attributed to the sacrifice of Chiitt , in like manner
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as it had been to those under the far * by attending ta the representation $ » minutely given pf it in the latter , we are enabled to comprehend it » true import in the former . ** 1 ;
We transcribe this passage in order that our readers may compare it with a sentence which ,
though already quoted , we are now constrained to bring again btforc their eyes . f ) r . Magee , when it suits his purpose , can make the following complaint :
The nature of sacrifice , as generally practised and understood , antecedent to the time of Christ , has been first examined ; and fr + m that as a ground oj explanation the notion of Christ * $ sacrifice has Leen derived : whereas * in fftct , fey this all former sacrifices are to be interpreted ; % nd in reference to it only , can they be understood . " ft
Thus we learn that the genuine import of Christ ' s sacrifice will be understood by attending to the minute representation of atonement wider the law : and further that 6 y Christ ' s sacrifice " ail former-& ? orifices are to be interpreted ; naf ,
that in reference to it only can they be understood ! * These dialectics may be * e ry convenient to the Deaa of Cork : but they will 6 carcely pass with men who do not allow that orthodox divinity ' can excuse sophistical and selldestructive reasdniiig . - , Quo teoeam rtiltus mutantcm Vrotei nodo ? ML . mt ^ . ^ . a * . ^_ . ^ . JMk A
W W TT » W "ar TF V Cum rapies in ju »~ - — - —• Fict aper , modo avfe , modo iaxutXij et cum volet , arbor . Dr . Magee does not always express himself with equal decision even upon the same topic . Tbougb in two passages he asserts that thfc sacrifices of tfee Iftw uwe designed to prefigure the sacrifice of Cbritt ^_^^^ A __—A ^ ft ^ A ^^^ A- ^^^ & ^^ h ^ A- * _ _ .. .. jL .. _ j ^^ ^ ^___ ^ ..-. ' fc ¦¦ ¦ — . fc-jMfc—^^^^ 1 ^^^^^^^^
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* f ( 5 Heeii&i' -Dr . Magee < f » Atonement .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 496, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/48/
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