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Review . —» Dr . Magee on Atonement . 69 $
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moral and spiritual creation can be ascribed to Christ . And because , according to the Illustrator , Mr . L ' s arguments amount to nothing , he is pleased to add , u Belsham ' assertion that Mr . Lindsey would overturn the notion of the pre-existence of Christ , is- maintained by Mr . Lindsey ' own assertion that he
has done so . ;> It were not difficult to vindicate the Essay from the Dean of Cork ' s allegations concerning it . But on this undertaking we are not called to enter till he shall have refuted the
Apology and the Sequel to the Apology . May we not conclude from his silence respecting those performances that he found it prudent not to glance at what Mr . L . has there advanced in relation
to the two creations and the preexistence of our Lord ? Our author supposes * that when Paul declares Jesus Christ to be the Lord from heaven ^ he asserts his pre-existence * We have
seldom met with ; a stranger exposition of scripture even from illiterate commentators . On observing the connection of this passage ^ we see that it is explained by such texts as the following : Philipp . iii . 20 , < Our citizenship is in fcaven y whence also we look for * he Saviour / ' &c . Thess . iv . 36 , « The Lord himself shall descend / rom heaven , with a shout , "
&c . The Lord from heaven , is a description of Christ , at what divines call his second coming : and in the 47 th verse of 1 Cor . xv . there is an implied contrast between the glorified body of the second Adam , with the earthly , —* 1 m , n | , " * ' " * » m "" »'" ' » ¦ * ¦! » ¦ 11 » " i' ' " ¦ * ' imm * p . 71 .
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decaying tabernacle of the first . Ver . 49 y and 2 Cor . v . 1 . It is not true that hia , never implies the final cause " unless when joined with the accusative / 'f—But the late Mr . Simpson , of Bath > , hasj we think , correctly explained Heb . i , 2 , in his valuable Essays on the Language of Scripture . f We are referred by the Dean of Cork to Itosenmuller ' s Scholia on Col . i . 16 . 1 T That commentator
there lays before his readers the opinion of the German divines Ernesti and Teller , who understand the passage of a new moral creation wrought in the world by the frosnel of Christ . A fair contro
versialist would not , like Dr . Magee , have suppressed the circumstance that Rosenmuller himself is favourable to this interpretation % acknowledging indeed that it is apparently forced , yet that it has the sanction of the contexthcec interpretatio 9 quamvis durior esse videatur , contextui et Us quo ? v . 20 , dicuutur , bene respondet . Such a decision is in the spirit of true criticism . The Illustrator ' s second note
professes to treat of < c Unitarian objections to the religious observance of stated days . " Now to the religious observance of the day vulgarly denominated Good Fri * day , \\ all Dissenters , whether Trinitarian or Unitarian , entertain insuperable objections : for they allege that it rests on no other basis than human authority . As to the question , whether a sabbatical institution form part of Christianity , Unitarians are not agreed in opinion : and it has been
f 72 , 73 . I Vol . ii . 93 , Sec . f Tall The day first referred to by Dr . M
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 693, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/33/
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