DISCOURSES AND DISSERTATIONS ON THE SCRIPTURAL DOCTRINES OF ATONEMENT AND 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.
Book Details + Condition: Printed For T. Cadell (London). Early Edition, 1832. Hardcover in three volumes. Full leather boards with raised bands and gilt to spine; marbled text block, and marbled endpapers. Vol 1: 495 pp; Vol 2: 464 pp; Vol 3: 351 pp + 58 page Index. Comprehensive and extensive treatise on the Christian doctrines of Sacrifice and Atonement. William Magee (1766 - 1811) was a well known preacher of the Irish Reformation, who rallied against the Catholic Emancipation movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. For all 3 volumes: firm binding; some rubbing / fading to gilt on spine; Bishop of Mauritius (1869) bookplate to inside front board; interior is clean and free of markings.