ON THE

Scriptural Doctrines

OF

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:

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
IRELAND, LATE S.F.T.C. AND PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN
THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN.

FROM THE LAST LONDON EDITION, WITH LARGE ADDITIONS.

S. POTTER & CO. No. 115, CHESNUT STREET.

JESPER HARDING, PRINTER.

1825

C1283.78

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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

1873, March 22.
Bequest of

James Walker, D.D., L. L. D.
(H. U. 1814.)

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.