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Head of the Victim , ' which action was confessedly symbolical , we meet with this strange postulatum— That even the eucharistic sacrifices mtght bear some relation to sin , especially if ammat sacrifice in its first institu * tiqn was designed to represent that death which had been introduced
by sin , will perhaps not be deemed improbable . " In other words , if we will only admit the learned dignitary ' s gratuitous theories , we shall not perhaps dissent from his conclusions . But then if we
reject his hypotheses , we are in . stantly to be tutored on the pride and self-sufficiency of human reason , &c . & € i This , to be sure , is admirably logical and modest ? ~» We must observe , before we
dismiss this note , that as the scape-goat was not sacrificed , no argument can hence be fairly drawn in favour of the meaning I > r > M . would ascribe to the
imposition of hands where a sacrifice took place . Besides , a discrimination is to be made between laying hands-on the Head , and laying hands upon the animal .
But , adds ou * dextrous Illustrator * if the Jewish sacrifice ^ were not of vicarious import , stall they were propitiatory . To this effect are the title and the sub .
stance of his fortieth note . Now * if by propitiatory he intends that they rendered God propitious , we reclaim against the statement , and demand proof . If , on the
contrary , he means that they were declaratory of the merciful and \ propitious regard of the Supreme , $ eing to tire offerer we agree with him in sentiment . —After all , let
him be somewhat more definite in , . / Jb | S ' . statements , and s&y for what scheme of atonement he is really pleading ? We smile when he
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speaks of an argument ex abundantii some of his readers may conceive , as we do , that he Eas no argument to spare . . There is a note , of twenty pages [ XL 1 ] "On the I > ivine | jpsti | ul tioa of Sacrifice : and the traces
thereof discoverable ! n the heathen corruptions of the rite . " Scrip , ture teaches us that Almighty God prescribed sacrifices to the Jews . With this information we
are satisfied . Nor shall we accompany Dr . M . into the regions of conjecture . If an hypothesis be once assumed , nothing is easier than to discover traces of it
wherever its author or its votary pleas * es . In his visionary remarks on Phenician history and theology , the Illustrator confesses that he is
opposed to Bishop Cumberland . And how does he account for this difference of sentiment between the Dean of Cork and the l ^ ned prelate ? Why , truly , V wijLji a preconceived system ^ and a predo . minant terror , even the mind of
Cumberland was not lively tp pursue a steady and unbiassed course !" We add no comment : ^^ fprbear to make any application In No- XL 1 I [« On M t > eath
of Christ as a true propitiatory sacrifice for the sins of ma . pkind ''] Dr . Magee speaks , of ^ | g ^ sage and of a prophecy ia . scsijgj ^ ire as having experienced *^ ihe , fififierity
of Socinian criticising ^ ^ ometimes then , according teiJ ^ s wri - ter , Socinian criticism w sqperfciaL and sometimes it is js $ verc I
His present note ought to have been entitled 4 fc an Examination of certain words and phrases pccurringintheOld and New ^ Testament . " Part of it is ^ Ctig ?^ an exposition of ^^ h ^ Tn ^ an ^ should ^ in justice ^ be coinpared with the transtotion , &c . Bl-
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778 " Review . —> Drp Magee on Atonement .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 778, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/50/
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