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tion alone , without the sufferings or merit of any Being whatever , would not sufficiently atone for past offeriees . " Let the book of Job , says the Dean : 0 f Cork r speak for itself z and so say we ! In the former of the extracts which this author has made from it there is
a total silence concerning the sufferings of any being : and the only merit there ascribed to Job , is that of having spoken of God ct the thing that is right , " or of
having uttered more honourable sentiments in respect of the divine character and government than his three friends . The passage must therefore be understood as
containing the decision of the Almighty upon this memorable dispute : nor should our author , in fairness , have quoted one or two sentences only from Dr . Priestley ' s Essay , and omitted the clauses which ascertain and vindicate this
writers meaning ; the whole pa * ragraph in the Theological Heporsitory being as follows : i 6 > And doth not the Almighty himself give a sanction to the sentiments of these discourses ^ when , upon Job ' s simply professing his repentance , ( as in Chap . xlii . 5 ,,- ' , ' I have heard of thee with the hearing of the ear , but now mine eye seeth thee : therefore I abhor my .
self , and repent in dust and ashes" ) we read that the Lord turned again the captivity of Job , and blessed his latter end more than his beginning ? verses 10 , 12 . "
ThtoL Repos . Vol . I . 404 , Our readers being thus put in possession of the matter at issue ,, will perceive that Dr . Priestleyhas not made his assertions without or against evidence : they will xejoarkV too , that intercessory ( prayer and aton ^ me ^ t in the po-
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pular acceptation of that word ) are confounded together by the Dean of Cork , who gratuitousl y supposes that intercession denotes merit , and who charges his own errors on his antagonist . As to the fact of " Job ' s offering burnt
offerings according to the number of his sons , '' it illustrates the piety and paternal affection ot the patriarch , but , obviously , has no bearing on the question , whether repentance and reformation alone , without the sufferings , or merit of any being whatever , be sufficient
to atone for , past offences ! In Note XXIV [« On the Attribute of the Divine Justice" ] our author seems to us to combat a sentiment which , Dr . Priestley never maintained , and to lay down , at least , one inference which Dr .
Priestley would not have impugned , Where has Dr . P ^ stated * or even insinuated ^ that- *' ,, the very notion of punishment is incompatible with pure benevolencei" Where has he denied that the hardened and
unrelenting offender is a fit object of the punitive justice of his Ma . ker ? Justice in the Deity is Divine goodness regulated by Divine holiness and wisdom : it is
therefore a modification of God ' s benevolence . Nor is Dr . P . " guilty of most unworthy trifling" in his use of the term as applied r io't he Deity : nor does he employ it as " a sound to save appearances . "
The twenty . fifth note is " On the Text in John , * describing our Lord , as "the lamb of God , which taketh away the sii > s of the world . According to II . Taylor [ Ben Mordecai ] , the illusion , in . this passa ge , is to the 53 d chapter of Isaiah : in Dr . M ' s . opinion , it lg ? John i . SO .
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700 Review . —Dr . Magee on Atonement .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 700, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/40/
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