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strictures . " It has been well remarked /* writes Dr . M- Qc that all such declarations in Scripture as promise pardon to repentance * and are thence inferred to pronounce repentance of itself
sufficient , as they were subsequent to the promise of a Redeemer , must be altogether inconclusive , even viewed in a distinct aad independent light , inasmuch as it may have been in virtue of the
preordained atonement , that this re * pentaace was accepted . " Here then wje have , ex concesso , hypo , thesis against / acf : by the admis * sion of the Dean of Cork himself , there are declarations in scripture
which promise pardon to repen . tance ; and yet , to prove the insufficiency of this repentance the conjecture ( for it amounts to no . thing more ) is hazarded that such sorrow for sin and amendment of
life , may have been accepted in virtue of the preordained atonement ! Let the Dean of Cork produce , if he can , a siugle passage in favour of this position : and let him further shew on what
authority he limits the application of such phrases as the free grace of God , which , he tells us , mean nothing more than that the Divine forgiveness of sinners was " free
with respect to any * merits on the part of man . " We agree with him that no merits are to be urged . This , however , is but a partial statement . If God justify
us freely by his grace , this freedom of mercy must imply the absence of any foreign consideration whatever , on one side and on the other . He does not freely forgive a debt who receives the
payment of it—nor d <> es repentance confer a claim , th p ugh the impenitent transgressor is obviously
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m a state which renders him in , capable of pardon . Our author ' s purpose in No , XIX * is to make it appear that u the want of a discoverable connexion between the means and the end , equally applies to every scheme of atonement . " We shall
not detain our readers by maoy observations upon this note . Dr . Magee , however , ought to know that the connecting link of cause and effect is not a mystery , in the scriptural sense of the word mystery , * and that in no one passage of the Bible is the scheme of our
redemption styled mysterious , according to the signification which the Dean of Cork affixes to the epithet . JXke-atrte at which we next arrive ( XX , ) , is of much greater importance—* On the Scripture [ Scriptural ] Phrase of our being reconciled to God . " Dr . M . is
singularly unfortunate in his re * ferences to Rosen in uller ; this excellent critic ' s exposition of Matt , v . 24 , and 2 Cor , v . 20 , being pointedly in opposition to that sense of the words * be recon * cited , &c . for which the Dean of Cork is an advocate . On the
former passage Rosenmuller says — KaraAAarrfo-S-ai , redire in gratiam ; quod fieri solet testando nolle nos factum . Non is tantum reconciliatur et Gum # ltero in gratiam redit , qui veniam dat <> verum
etjam is qui veniam petit : ' — the other text he offers this comment , 4 * YLaroLXXoLyr ^ a fvo 0 ^ 0 In gratiam redite cum Deo , ut Matt . v . 24 , fooLKKovyrfii rcpabsK ^^ in gratiam redi cum alteio .
Ad-* Some good observations on *^ scripttnal sense of the word , will b * found in Sherlock ^ Sei * mons Vol . *• ( Ed . Gtb , ) 131 , be .
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698 lieview . —Dr . Magee on Atonement .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 698, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/38/
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