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umphantly supported by Monsieur Barnaby Brisson ! Then, iest the 
Rev. Mr. Maurice should be deemed insufficient, he is corroborate 
ed by Orme, and Sir W. Jones, and Mr. Wilkins, while Holwell and 
Dow who have hitherto passed through the world with good name, 
fame, credit, character, and reputation, are on this occasion un- 
mercifully lashed by the learned Doctor. The jury are then en- 
lightened upon the devotional practices of the Druids, as detailed 
to us, by Diodorus Siculus, and Lucan, by Caesar, and Tacitus. 
These religious acts of the Druids who sacrificed their enemies 
taken in war , were nothing however to the pious orgies of the 
Greeks, who cut the throats of their friends before battle , as we 
are told by Phylarchus, and Pausanias, and Fulgentius, and Apol- 
lodorus, and Plutarch, to say nothing of Suidas, who whis- 
pers a few greek words in assent. Upon a similar subject, 
Plutarch, Livy, and Pliny, are kept in countenance by the 
authors of the Universal History, and by Porphyry. Eviden- 
ces now crowd thick upon us ; some are introduced for the 
first time, others for a second examination : Herodotus, Strabo, 
Jorhandes, Cicero, Caesar, Procopius, Tacitus, Pliny, Sanconia- 
thon, Plato, Silius Italicus, Justin, Ennnius and Diodorus, succeed 
each other uelut unda sufiervenit undam. All these testimonies, 
a man well red in indexes, might perhaps have mustered with 
great labour, a^ Dr. Magee has done : but the Doctor is no com- 
mon writer, or every day reasoner : he aims to “ snatch a grace 
beyond the rules of art,” and to fortify the scripture doctrine of 
atonement, he boldly appeals to the practice of the Canaanites ! 
(Lev. xx. 23.) The Hivites,Hittites, Amorites, Jebusites, Perizites, 
and so forth, are passed over. Then we have the corresponding cus- 
toms of the Arabians again ; of the Cretans, Cyprians, Rhodians, 
and Phocseans ; with those of Chios, Lesbos, Tenedos, and Pella, 
from Porphyry as quoted by Eusebius, and from Monimus as re- 
tailed to us by Clemens Alexandrinus. So that the universality 
of the principle and practice of atonement and vicarious suffering, 
in the heathen world, “ cannot reasonably be questioned.” Lest 
however it should be questioned by some unbelieving wight, the 
learned Doctor goes on more fully to strengthen his positions, by 
Euripides, Tacitus, Plutarch, Pliny, and Plato, attended by Pro- 
fessor Meiners and Dr. Cudworth, who vouch to warranty all the 
ancients, wherever their testimony can be pressed into the ser- 
vice. 
Then the Doctor proceeds to shew that the same principle and 
practice has obtained among all the most polite and civilized bar- 
