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    Art . L—Dr . Magee ' s Discouises and Dissertations , fyc . ( Concluded from p . JO 2 ~)

    Our author has judged proper to write a note [ XXXI ] " On the pretence of figurative allusion in the sacrificial terms of the New Testament / ' And the follo-wing number [ XXXII . ] , whichconsists

    merely of references to those arguments , on this subject , that are urged by H . Taylor and Dr . Priestley , should have been

    incorporated with it . Now , though the Dean of Cork is very willing to apprehend that he has completely answered whatever these divines have said concerning

    figure , allusion , sacrifice , &c we must beg him to suppress his exultation until he shall have substituted proof for assertion . Even if we conceded to him that his

    favourite division of language into literal , figurative and analogical is just ( notwithstanding we are unable to conceive of any expressions as analogical which , at the Same time , are not in some degree figurative ) , still we require him to shew that scripture warrants the latter distinction as to the death of Christ . And we have a far more serious charge to prefer against Dr . Magee than that of reasoning inconclusively . No ingenuous man , he he of what religious denomination he may ,

    can hesitate to condemn , in uevrre terras , the following instance ot controversial craftiness : because the historian of the Corruptions

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    of Christianity has no doubt that , " though not perhaps at present 9 we shall in time be able , without any effort or straining , * to explain all particular expressions in the apostolical epistles , &c . " the Illustrator holds him forth as here

    confessing " thatthose enlightened theories , in which he and hi 9 followers exult so highly , are wrought out of scripture only by effort and straining . " Whoever reads with tolerable care

    the section whence Dr . M . has taken this extract , will see that no such confession is either made or implied . Certain literal interpretations of scripture are forced and strained . Such ,

    unquestionably , even in the judgment of the Dean of Cork , is that b ^ means of which the doctrine of transubstantiation possesses itself so firin ty of the minds of Papists . Of the same nature , in

    Dr . Priestley ' s opinion , is that literal exposition of single texts of scripture which upholds the popular tenet of atonement : and to this , which he had before reprobated , he plainly alludes when he speaks of effort and of

    straing A long note succeeds [ XXXIII . ] * ' On the sense entertained generally by all , and more especially instanced amongst the Jews , of the necessity of propitiatory expiation * " In this tale an accurate

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 775, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/47/