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lionet igitur apostolus , ut homines recte et digne aestiment illam pei benevolentiam , quse per Christum tam luculenter hominibus demonstrata est , et mentem aliam , rneliorem iiuluant , quae digiia sit tanto beneficio . " The
latter ot these passages is decisive of tbe Controversy . To evince that God forgives freely , and that the death otJesus Christ is neither propitiatory not vicarious , we appeal to the following declarations of ( be apostle Paul ' s : ¦— " God hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ—God was in Christ recon . ciim £ the vvorW unto himself , not impiikittg their trespasses unto them . " These sentences teach us , in the first place , that the proposal of reconciliation comes from God
—te ffccoricrles the world tin to hiffi ? rt $ fi We learn hem % se . ror «« Hyv-ishat Jesus Christ is his mitimer of reconciliation . And , lastly ^ the nature < sf this reconciliation a here fc £ t fdMi- ^ -h is the pardon ofMsift : i't h the not irru
pucmgnthw trespasses unto men . It is obvious then that , even should we admit the justness of Haiftmoml ^ and Whit by V criticisms ! upon sdme of those verses which fcpfeak of the Reconciliation ofman to mari , ! -. ^ Cor . v . 18 , 1 %
20 , is a smtemettt of the tinpur . chimed con ^ ssion of th « Father ot mercies to otir guilty race 1 it ^ egwspel h * e has been pleased t 6 assure us tfeaty oil laying rtside w enmity , w ^ ighalt be restored t () Ms favour .
Tlie ^ e remarks iviH apply t 6 Dr Magee ^ fe next * note ( XXI ) , Wph * is , " On the True Dis-^ nctibn btfttoeen the laying aside our Enmity to God and beircg re-C (> ncilcd to . ^ i ^^ Vw . iMW judg . 'Qcnt , it is , © ,, distinction which was
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unknown to the apostle of the Gentiles . * iC That the sinner is the object of the divine- displeasure , " wha can reasonably question ? It was unnecessary for the Dean of Cork to bring proofs from scripture ( and
in his twenty-second note he produces a few ) of a truth so evident . The impenitent transgressor cannot be the object of his Maker ' s complacency , but the contrary *
This is the acknowledged doctrine of the sacked writings . Dr . Magee ' s quotation from Adam Smith in support of the notion that " the most dreadful atonement has been
paid for x > ur manifold transgressions and iniquities , " is neither fair nor pertinent . It is unfair , because in the later editions of
the Theory of Moral Sentiments " no one sentence appears of this extract : " it is foreign to the pur . pose , becduse Adam Smith , wo
understand , was not a believer in revelation , against which he , probably , was biassed by a survey of tke current articles of faith , which he seems to hav * luistaketi
for the religion of Jesus Christ ! Of what value , upon such a sub * ject , is the opinion of a man , however gifted , and in other respects Accomplished , who had not studied it ?
It ought to be well considered whether Dr . M s * alleged instance ( No . XX-iri ) from the book of job , of sacrifice being prescribed , to
avert GodVanger , militates against the pdsition of Dr . Priestley , ** that m-ankind in the patriarch ' s time h&d not the least apprehen * sion fha ; t repentance and reforma .
* In 2 Cur * v . 15 , Paul has explained the admonition which lie gives in the itviMtifcth verse .
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Review—Dr . Magee on Atonement . g 99
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 699, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/39/
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