Discourses and Dissertations on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement & Sacrifice

ON THE

SCRIPTURAL DOCTRINES

ATONEMENT & SACRIFICE:

AND

ON THE PRINCIPAL ARGUMENTS ADVANCED, AND THE MODE OF

REASONING EMPLOYED, BY THE OPPONENTS OF THOSE

DOCTRINES AS HELD BY 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.

WILLIAM MAGEE, D. D.

SENIOR FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PROFESSOR OF
MATHEMATICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN.

FIRST AMERICAN, FROM THE THIRD AND LAST LONDON
EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY JAMES EASTBURN, 86 BROADWAY.

PAUL AND THOMAS, PRINTERS.

ΤΟ

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 eircumstances 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,

THE AUTHOR.

Trinity College, Dublin,

Sept. 21, 1809.

CONTENTS.

Prefatory Address to the Students in Divinity, in the Universi-

ty of Dublin

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Discourse I.—On the scriptural doctrine of Atonement
Discourse II.-On the scriptural doctrine of Sacrifice