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A Protest Against The Marriage Ceremony....
trine -of the Trinity , in whose name the marriage ceremony is performed , SIEVED *
W « c . CO ATE S , MARY ANN THOMPSON , Members of the church of God , known by the name of " Freethinking Christians . " London * June 10 , 1814 .
356 The Rev. C Wellbelovetfs Fciirte.
356 The Rev . C Wellbelovetfs fciirte .
The Rev. C. Wdlbeloved's Bible. [An Engl...
The Rev . C . Wdlbeloved ' s Bible . [ An English Bible accomodated to the present improved state of sacred literature has long been a desideratum : we therefore hail
the promise of such a work from so truly respectable a scholar as M r * WelVbeloved 3 and from such able associates as he has it in his power to join with him in the design . Wishing to promote this
laborious and important under , taking , we are happy to incorporate the following Prospectus of it in the body of our work , and doubt not that it will have its proper effect upon our readers . Ed . ]
Scarcely any feature of the present times is more extraordinary , certainly no one is more pleasing than the extensive and £ ordial union of persons of every religious denomination for th ^ purpose of
diffusing through all the world the scriptures of divine truth . The great design of this association of all classes of Christians , apd the various subordinate benefits arising out of h will ever justly claim the most strenuous exertions of
those who fcjre desirous of promoting the best interq * ts of mankind . To obtain and tp secure . the co . operatioju of persons , in many
The Rev. C. Wdlbeloved's Bible. [An Engl...
Yet whilst , for reasons wbicft it is needless here to state , this must be allowed , it must be also acknowledged that the best existing versions require improvement and the aid of explanatory notes , in
order that they who read the Bible may derive from it all the instruction it is capable of affording . The authorized English version is not to be excepted . Considering
the times and circumstances in which that version was at ' first made , and successively corrected , its general accuracy is a subject of admiration ; and where the original is truly expressed , the ; simplicity and melon y of " the lariguafie
are above all jiraisev BtVt ibe state of that text of the onmnal which our trahs ^ ators even inthe days of James I ., were cornpeTied to use , and the imperfect knowledge of the oriental larigiiages
which had then been acquired , were insuperable obstacles to ftie attainment of that degree of perfection which , in so important a work , is to be desired . The c ( iscovery and collation of many in . cient manuscripts both of the ori .
ginal text and of the eartiest versions ; the more ^ enefal cultivation of the pastern lahgiiag df customs of the East ; and the many
valuable translations of different books of _ scrjipture \ YJ ( ifc r ^ pently ptiblislae ^ sujppi ^ th e
points of doctfine 30 wlrf ^ ly & J & - rated from eacli other , it is n ^ - cessary that no change should '' tie introduced inio the authorised versions , nor any note or comriierit
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1814, page 356, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02061814/page/36/
