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Art . I . —Dr . Jljagee ' s Discourses and Dissertations ^ & ; c . ( Continued fiom p . 497 ) When our readers are informed that this author ' s " Illustrations
and Explanatory Dissertations " c iist of not fewer than seventy - four a ? tides , that they occupy eioht h p . h ^ d pages , and th a
many ot them have a very remote connection with the subject of Atonawent md Sacrifice , it will not b difficult to judge of the nature of the undertaking in which the reviewer or such a work
engages : a fourth edition of it , we Jearn , is in the press ; and the public are then to be favoured with that improved arrangement of the materials which , probably , would have saved us much time
and labour , had it been made in the present impression ! The title of Mo . I . of the ll ~ lustrations , fyc . is * ' On the pre-^ xistetyce of Christ , and the species of Arguments by which this Article of ihe Christian Doctrine
has been opposed . " Dr . Magee himself acknowledges that this is * a matter not necessarily cqu » nected" * with the subject of his discourses : he seems determined
however , to lose no opportunity of aiming a blow at those whom he designates as Soeinians ; though , in this goodly attempt , he seldom fails of exposing his own precipi * tancy and disingenuou $ ne § & .
A writer op whom h frequently animadverts , had referred to Mr . P . 55 .
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Lindsey ' s A p ologyy ic . and to the Sequel to that Apology , as ranking among certain publications in which a just explanation is given of texts that are supposed to affirm the pre-existence of Jesus Chribt . It might surely then have
been expected that if our author judged proper to notice Mr . Lindsey ' s opinions and criticisms upon this matter ^ he would have sought for them chiefly , if not exclusively , in those of that gentleman ' s works which bear his
name , and the titles of which Dr . M . had just quoted before . De . dining this fair and ingenuous course , he contents himself with censuring an Essay which he assumes to have been composed by Mr . Lindsey ,+ This paper , inserted in the second volume of the
Theological Repository , and professing to offer ic JJrief remarks concerning the two creations , " is designed to shew that none but a
-f Our copy of the Theological Repository belonged formerly to a distinguished scholar , who , in the margin of the table of the contents of the earlier volumes , has marked the names of many of the writers . We perceive that he assigns to Mr . L , the Essay in question . Dr . Magee too has , no doubt , enjoyed good opportunities of ascertaining who were the several contributor
However , when a person writes an occasional and anonymous Essay , ana also larger and avowed works on the very same subject , it would seem natural to Jook in the latter for his sentiments and reasoning ^*— the more so if we are directed thither for them . Tj 113 i& a , kind of literary decojura , an 4 indeed justice , of which no uprig ht , no impartial scholar will be regardless . Ret .
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c Still pleas'd to praise , yet not afraid to blame . "—Popjk .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 692, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/32/
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