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anabte'to account for its existence on tffty ^ other principle . There j $ a Valuable essay of the late Mr . Wakefield ' s on this subject . * —
Ho *^ > a disquisition upon it , and one ; too , of three and twenty pages , Bas no proper relation to « Discourses , &c . upon Atoneinenl « tn'd Sacrifice .
By the natural unreasonablenessof the sacrificial rite [ LIV ] the Dean of Ctirk understands its naturtil' want of fitness to obtain the faivtftir ^ of the Deity- Hence
he appears desirous of concluding that ifs Origin was absolutely divine . Were such a kind of argument once admitted , it might prove , we apprehend , too much . Not moire solid , we imagine , is
that attempted to be derived from the universality of sacrifice [ LV ] , Granting , for argument's sake , the f&ef j to the utmost extent , will it follow that sacrifice was ,
in fJit * fi $$ i Hnstmice , of divine institutiort > Are there not prac * tices against nature , against reason , and agaiftit ihterest , which prevail throifehityt'&' va $ t tract of
country / khd yfet are obviously human ? And this J c ( # estion holds good of the univWs&Hty of tbe notion of the ekpictiory virtue of sacrifice
[ NcwLVI ] : Re ^ rdriess of method , Dr . M . again ^ inif-bduces [ LVII ] the objectitftfe dgainst the supposition of the fflv iiie institution of sacrifice i
^ topic ^ hich should have been confir ^ tb No . ' XLVII . Warburi'eli rg'&sons very forci bly from the 9 # l £ toce of the sacred historian :
and the conjectures of the Dean p f . Ctgffr ' , " in answier ; we do not jud g *® ^ . be Satisfactory . After ^ 1 , * be ^ tttimctioji , ' which we have aJlrekdy jSbirited out , between
# Memoirs , Vol . II . p . 339 , &c .
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sacrifice in the earliest age of its existence and sacrifice as it made a part of the Jewish ritual , must be carefully recollected .
Our author produces the sacrifice of Abel [ LVIII ] as evincing the divine institution of sacrifice . Following Hallett , on Heb . xi . 49 he argues that Abel ' s offering would otherwise have been
willworship , and therefore unaccepts * ble to God . There is morestrensth in this reasoning than we meet with in that of many of the preceding numbers . But we cannot pronounce it demonstration . So
far as sacred history is our guide * we find that the acceptableness of Abel ' s sacrifice was independent of the mere offering s and arose from the qualities of mind and character with which it was presented .
Dr . M . devotes more than a hundred pages [ LIX ] to " the history and the book <» f Job . " We cannot allow that his review of them is 4 * necessary to the subject of our present enquiry : " but it certainly presents matter of inte . resting investigation ; and we should be happy to see it printed , with some omissions and
corrections , in a separate pamphlet . On the whole , it is an excellent dissertation , generally accurate , we think , in point of reasoning and statement , and communicating to students in theology much valuable information . We have not
time to notice those parts of it in regard to which we differ from the author . But we cannot suppress our displeasure at the harsh and supercilious manner in which he has spoken of the late amiable Bishop Stock + ( 137 ) . .. n . ¦ t He published a new translation of Job in the year 1805 .
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Rcvieiv . —lyr . Magee on Atonement . 781
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 781, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/53/
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