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    at t 9 sue competent information , and the temper-and the manners which are not unjustly expected from controversialists at the present day . Our review of his volumes proclaims our

    disappointment , and accounts for it to our renders . If theological learning consist in an extensive acquaint , ance with books , to this praise he is certainly entitled ; to any further and superior qualifications

    for his undertaking , he cannot reasonably prefer a claim . We have produced examples of his imperfect knowledge of the principles on which the text of scripture is to be ascertained and its sense

    explored . His expositions almost uniformly bend to some favourite hypothesis ; and the larger number of his notes relate to

    conjectures and assumptions of his own , rather than to a comparison of one passage of the sacred volume with another . Yet , while he leaves the consideration of what the

    records of revelation teach , for verbal disquisitions , and for investigations which are also impertinent and recondite , he has no charity

    for those who unfortunately differ from himsel f * Were we to transcribe only a part of the sneers , the invectives , the insinuations , &C which he has levelled against

    n # rnes of no mean estimation , we siiouM trespass yet more upon the patience of those for whom we are

    writing . Dr . Magee * s volumes , however , are a specimen of the method by which it is not uftusually

    attempted to decry and silence Unitarian Cfctfstians . For this purpose , although they refuse to take a name from any uninspired leader , they are to be confounded with the followers of Socinus : it is to be care-

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    fully insinuated that they scarcely differ from deists ; and a vast deal of most irrelevant and inflamma . tory matter , literary , metaphysical

    and even political , is to be mixed up with declamation against their principles . In the mean time , the proofs adduced of those princi ples are to be overlooked * and suddoaie to ue overiuoKea * ana

    supposition and inference to be substu tuted for fair and manly examination . This is a receipt for writing against Unitarians ! The Dean of Cork is . unaues . xne jjean or uorK is

    -, unques tionably , a scholar ; we are the more astonished , therefore , at bis neglect of order in the arrange * ment of his materials , and at the occurrence of such phrases as the

    entire of the argument , &c , open up , &c . But these and greater blemishes of style are undeserving of notice , when compared with the temper of his performance . We are aware that we cannot

    always judge of the disposition and the habits of the man from the spirit of the author ; otherwise , our estimate of Dr , Magee , in points of considerable moment , would be much to his disadvantage . His Discourses , &c . so theo « retical and so desultory , have reminded us of the remark of J . J «

    Wetstein , * " sunt qui mysteria apostolis incognita sciunt , et ea Christianis obtrudunt , quse Christus Magister nusquam praescripsit ; " and also of one of

    Griesbach ' s , €€ negari non potest , omnes futuros Christianae Religionis doc tores , cuicunque ecclesiastic * provinciae administrandae destinati sint , mature liberandos esse a vanis atque praeconceptis opinionu bus , quse accuratam intelli genttapt ? N . T . torn . ii . 852 .

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    736 Review—Dr . Magee on Atonement ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 786, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/58/