ON THE Scriptural Doctrines OF ATONEMENT & SACRIFICES AND ON THE PRINCIPAL ARGUMENTS ADVANCED, AND THE MODE THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH: WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING SOME STRICTURES ON MR. BELSHAM'S ACCOUNT OF THE UNITARIAN SCHEME, IN HIS REVIEW OF MR. WILBERFORCE'S TREATISE: TOGETHER WITH REMARKS ON THE VERSION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, LATELY PUBLISHED BY THE UNITARIANS. BY WILLIAM MAGEE, D.D.F.R.S.M.R.I.A. DEAN OF CORK, CHAPLAIN TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF FROM THE LAST LONDON EDITION, WITH LARGE ADDITIONS. VOL. I. PHILADELPHIA: S. POTTER & CO. No. 115, CHESNUT STREET. JESPER HARDING, PRINTER. 1825 5 TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM CONYNGHAM PLUNKET. IN placing at the head of these sheets, a name, to which the respect and the admiration of the Public have attached so much celebrity; and in avowing at the same time, that I have selected the name of a Friend, with whom I have been united, almost from childhood, in the closest habits of intimacy; I am aware that I subject myself to the imputation of acting as much from a motive of pride, as from a sentiment of affection. I admit the imputation to be well founded.To enjoy the happiness of such a Friend, and not to exult in the possession, would be not to deserve it. It is a pride, which, I trust, may be indulged in without blame: and the distinction of having been associated with a character, so transcendently eminent for private worth, for public virtue, and for intellectual endowments, I shall always regard as one of the most honourable circumstances of my life. But independently of these considerations, the very nature of my subject supplies a reason for the choice which I have made. For I know not, in truth, to whom I could, with greater propriety, inscribe a work, whose chief end is to expose false reasoning and to maintain true religion, than to one, in whom the powers of just reasoning are so conspicuously displayed, and by whom the great principles of religion are so sincerely reverenced. With these views, I trust, that I shall stand excused by you, my dear Sir, in having, without your knowledge, thus availed myself of the credit of your name. The following treatise, in which so many additions have been made to a former publication, as in some measure to entitle it to the appellation of a new work, I submit to your judgment: well satisfied, that if it meet your approbation, it will not find an unfavourable reception from the public. I am, my dear Sir, With the truest attachment, Your affectionate Friend and Servant, Trinity College, Dublin, Sept. 21, 1809. THE AUTHOR. CONTENTS. ADVERTISEMENT to the Second Edition, ADVERTISEMENT to the Third Edition, ADVERTISEMENT to the Fourth Edition, DISCOURSE I.-On the scriptural doctrine of ATONEMENT, DISCOURSE II.-On the scriptural doctrine of SACRIFICE, ILLUSTRATIONS and EXPLANATORY DISSERTATIONS. No. I. On the PRE-EXISTENCE OF CHRIST, and the spe- cies of arguments by which this article of the Chris- tian Doctrine has been opposed, No. VI.-On the multiplied operation of the Divine acts, No. VII.-Deistical reasoning instanced in CHUBB, No. XII.-On the corruption of man's natural state, No. XIII.-On the misrepresentation of the doctrine of Atone- |