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a Joh nson . " Thus viewed in relation to its context , ( a mode of interpretation , we know , not very acceptable to Dr . M . ) , the passage
js not opposed by either the declarations or the spirit of that gospel which speaks of " the recompence of reward , " and exhi . bits the servants of God as looking forward with humble trust to the appearance of c ; the Lord , the righteous judge / ' When the Dean
asks , " On casting an eye into the works of Priestley , Lindsey , Evanson , Wakefield , Belsham , and the other Unitarian writers , do we not instantly recognize that proud vand independent , and , I had almost said , heaven-defying self-reliance , which [ had ! once distinguished the
haughty disciple of the Stoa ?"we smile at his empty pomposity of manner and expression , and are tempted to observe that it is much easier to hazard than to justify such questions .
Our Illustrator devotes a note [ XVI . ] to ' < Dr . John Taylor ' s Scheme of Atonement , ' which we do not admit , and therefore are not required to vindicate . And we shall here remark , once for all , that we cannot but suspect the pretensions of those doctrines —such as the Trinity and the Atonement—of which it is judged necessary to propose a scheme . This very circumstance is presumptive of their being of human origin . The unity and the essential goodness of God , are written M the most luminous characters on the pages of the volume of
revelation : and who ever thought ° f laying down a . scheme of them ? —Taylor ' s Key to the Apostolic writings merits , however , the attention of the . student in divinity , w hether all the writer ' s interpre .
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Revitw *— Dr . Magee en Atonement . 697
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most part , with exemplary candour , by Dr . Richie , in his " Criticism on modern Notionsof Atonemerit , " the manuscript of which was revised by Lard tier , * The Dean of Cork contends ( No . XVII ) that "the doctrine of Atonement * ' is falsely charged
with the presumption of pronouncing on the necessity of Christ ' s death . " This note is levelled against one of H . Taylor ' s allegations in the letters of Ben Mor decai . < c That men / ' says Dr .
taiions be adopted or not : on the subject of-sacrifice he has been animadverted upon with great acuteness and force , and , for the
M ., " cnidd not have been forgiven unless Christ had suffered to purchase their forgiveness , is no part of the doctrine of atonement , as held by the Church of England . " Be this as it may—such , of
assuredly ^ is the doctrine Atonement as held by the majority of its professors , who , thus far , at least , are very consistent with themselves . If the received tenet
be true , the necessity of Christ ' s death , in the sense which our author opposes , follows of course . The title which this gentleman has chosen to givfc to the note be * fore us , is very indefinite and obscure : we are not fond of < a
priori reasoning" on theological topics ; yet we cannot but be friends to distinct ideas and intelligible expressions . In the succeeding note , ( XVIII ) " On the Mode of Reasoning whereby the sufficiency of Good Works without Mediation is
attempLed to be defended from Scripture , " two sentences occur which call , particularly , for our * JLifc , by Kippis , Ixvi ., &c .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 697, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/37/
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