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    there being such an original adaptation * We deny , moreover , that the language of the New Testament on the subject of atonement , is more precise and significant *

    * » - than that of the Old , and , in particular , that Xvlgovi ctv 1 i \ vlgov 9 Km rf A . are sacrificial terras . Our author cannot think more highly than we do of Tillotson and Chillingworth . The former of these writers maintained that

    the doctrine of our redemption by the sacrifice of Christ , had its origin in " the notion of sacrifices entertained among the Pagans . " Perhaps he would have been more correct , had he

    restricted this proposition to human schemes and theories of atone , ment . We do not accompany Dr . M . in his long digression upon points relating to the deistical controversy , and upon the characters of some distinguished unbelievers in Revelation . It

    occupies a vast number of pages ^ and helps to swell the volume , and , it may be , to aid the writer ' s object , by leading his unwary readers to associate the idea of Deists with

    that of Unitarians : in all other respects it is superfluous and mis . placed . After labouring through this tedious disquisition , we arrive at the seventieth note [ On the correspondence between the annual

    expiation under the law , and the one great expiation under the gospel * ' ] . In this number , as in many of the preceding , the Illustrator , unsupported by express scriptural authorities , indulges luxuriantly in his accustomed fancies . We

    refer to our observations upon types , in our review of No . Lxvnr . Oa " the nature and import of

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    the ceremony of th £ scape . goat ^ he deems it necessary to add & few remarks [ LXXI ] . It is with litle consistency that he asks uj to consider this ceremony as z designed type of the death of Jesus Christ , till he and his

    reputedly orthodox brethren arc agreed whether , on the occasion of which he speaks , there were two offerings or but one ! The seventy-second note bear * the following curious title , < VSociman Objections urged by a Divine of the Established Church

    against the doctrine of the vtca * rious Import of the Mosaic sacrifices , and against the Doctrines of the Church of England . " This divine , it appears * is Mr * Fellowcs , whom Dr . Parr eulogises and Dr . Magee loudly censures . Utri horum ! Of Mr . F . the Dean of

    Cork says , Juravi lingua ^ men * tern injuratam gero , is a sentiw ment which has seldom been so

    openly avowed as by this gentleman . " The subject of clericaL subscription is , in truth , a very melancholy and mortifying one , We grant to our author that it i 4 demands a most conscientious

    precision . " That it admits of such a precision , is not quite so evident But we are thankful that none of our interests—temporal or eternal

    —are involved in this topic , which we must leave to be discussed by others , whom we can sincerely pity , while we will not attempt to vindicate them .

    Mere references to his own indistinct reasonings , will not convince us that Dr . M . is correct instating [ LXXIII ] the atonement by the sacrifice of Christ to be " wore strictly vicarious than that by the Mosaic sacrifices , whereby it was typified / ' This typification of it ,

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    784 Review * — Magee on Atonement *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 784, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/56/