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Reuaew . —Dr . Magee on Atonement * 785
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^ ye must remind him , is nothing more than an hypothesis invented to uphold and colour a certain system of theology : and , even according to our author ' s statement , there is still a want of correspondence between the type and the anUjtyP * To the absurd comments of the Targuinists the Dean of Cork is perfectly welcome : nor are we astonished at his giving sonjeof them a place in his pages . * At length we see land , and rea ^ ji the seventy . fourth and
cond ^ i pg nurpber , in which the au . tho ^ y ^ ntures to affirm that he has exjjMjyped , with a conscientious regard to truth and scripture , "
the .. abjections of those whom he opg 9 s $ si . We presume not , indeed , to ^§ rt # ign his motives , however much we condemn his spirit and hi r % a $ oning . But we could wish tb * i | jje were as ready to admit the purity of the intentions of his antagonists , as he is to assert his own
sincerity . His Appendix is highly discreditable to his reputation , both as a . scholar and a gentleman , and must class amongthe most censurable effusions of arrogance and
unfairness in controversy . It professes to give * an account of the Unitarian scheme as described by Mr . Belsham in his Review of Mr . Wilberforce's treatise ; with occasional strictures on the leading arguments advanced in that publication ; " and in every part ot this
Appendix , not excepting even the mottos , Mr . B . is treated with a superciliousness and vulgar illi ^ berality , which toibid him to bestow any great bbare ot his time and thoughts upon such an antagonist . By quoting detached and garbled passages from his work ^ by imputing to hint pcincjples
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which he does noi hold , and charg * ing upon him consequences against which he has guarded his statements and reasonings , the Dean of Cork flatters himself that he ha * obtained an easy triumph . * In one of the notes to his A p * pendix , Dr . M . remarks that Schleusner deserves to be parti ** cularly consulted on the word Bvtvyxjxvuu * We quote , accord-* ngl y ? tne language of that , most valuable author : * ' svrvyyowew fo
vjtsg rtwos , ^ l sensu rensi cauw sam a , licujus agere etcommendara significat , vel simpliciter interce * dere pro aliquo , pro commodp alrcujus faeere aliquid , adjuvare , opem ferre . Again , he says ( p . * ' $ ) si praepositio x&ra additur , significat accuso aliquem . verba facio contra aliquem , defero apuil
judicem , " Rom . xi . 2 . What then shall we thinkof Dr . Magee ' s sneer at Mr , Beisham , for observing that
inter ceding expresses > any intef ^ ference of one person , for ot against another ?" Two useful indexes are sub * joined , of the principal matters , and of texts . The work closes
with a catalogue of the editions of such books as have been quoted , &c « We sincerely commend and thank Dr . M . for this attention to his readers . Upon the perusal of these Discourses and Dissertations we
entered with some prrpossessaons in favowr of the author ; we were willing to believe that agi-ntleman so accomplished in academical learning , and so high in academical ri-puuitt n vk'uuI i > nng with him to th « - dU'CMLssi"i > 1 he point
? See Mr . B . ' s own account oF the matter , in the preface to the third edition of his Heview * 4
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VOL , IX , 5 3
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 785, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/57/
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