ON THE Scriptural Doctrines OF ATONEMENT & SACRIFICE; 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. S. POTTER & CO. No. 115, CHESNUT STREET. JESPER HARDING, PRINTER. 1825 C1283.78 J HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY 1873, March 22. James Walker, D.D., L. L. D. President of Harr. Univ. 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. |