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answered in the negative by dirges of the Church of England , * as well as by Mr . Belsham , With tfie ostensible subject of Dr . Magee ' s volumes it has no concern let our readers judge whether his learning or his candour , or both , be not impeached by his introduction of it .
Of the third note the title is , " On the Importance of the Doctrine of Redemption / ' Dr . Ma . gee here assumes that this doctrine , &s held by the established church , is perfectly scriptural In the judgment of others , as in 6
mat of the author of the ' History oi the Corruptions of Christianity " ( whose sentiments , however , are to be collected rather from the works to which his name is prefixed than from his early communications to the Theological Repository ) , it is ' a new hypothesis . " Particular articles of
belief may be highly momentous so far as they compose and sustain a system of divinity : and yet the sjstem may be visionary ! It is the object of the following note ( the fourth ) to shew that
* pardon ts not necessarily consequent upon repentance . * The reverse of this ( proposition ( Dr # M . deems it deistical ) was maintained by Warburton . But we shall not enter upon the
controversy * Abstract and metaphysical discussions are less gratif ying to us than the declarations of revealed religion , by which we are taught that God actually pardons sins upon repentance .
For this reason we shall only observe respecting note V .
? Ogden , Paley , &c . By the religious observance of Oood Friday , Dr . M . understands the separation of it from secular employments .
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' * The sense entertained by mankind on the natural ineificacy of repentance proved from the history of human sacrifices , *' that it is a very needless and irrelevant display of the Dean of Cork ' s reading . Even if Dr . Priestley , in one of his juvenile Essays , has expressed himself in . advertently on this head , how
can the error implicate the cha . racter or the creed of the body of Unitarians , whose honourable dis . tinction it is to 4 C call no man master ? " We would , besides , ask the Illustrator , whether we are to take our ideas of the
religion of nature from the opinions of men in regard to God ' s character and government , atur a debasing and cruel idolsiiy ik-u ! overspread the earth , or from me belief and worship prevalent in the earliest periods which history re » cords ?
The multiplied operation of the divine acts'' [ asserted in the next note ] , is a truth which we do not question ; however we may differ from Dr . M . in the application he now makes of it . On
points of which we can know little or nothing except from revelation , it is our practice to ask , not how many or how few ends may the
Supreme Being be supposed to have in view , but—what ends has he been pleased to represent himself as keeping in sight ? It is little creditable to Dr . Magee that he deals in Ci dastardly generalities . " Thus , in No . VII . entitled , " Deistical Reasoning instanced in Chubb , " he says , ** there is good reason to think that this writer [ Chubb ] is held in no small estimation by those who claim to be enli ghtened professors of Christianity ? " Now were the
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694 Review . ^ Dr . Magee on Atonement .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 694, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/34/
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