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matter to be contrary to Scripture;
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THE UNITARIAN CHRONCILE , Supplementary Number to No . V . , Price 3 d .
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it being equally necessary to prove it contrary to the Westminster confession And yet how often are we doomed to hear a reference to those passages which denounce the taking from or adding to the words of Scripture ! But gee how these passages recoil upon themselves ! What we subtract , we only postpone ; but what they addy they bind upon men ' s souls with chains too heavy to be borne , and without the solace of one glimpse of hope that they are ever to be removed or lightened !
' And then this business of subtraction : only think of the harrowing descriptions which have been given of the impiety of the age—of the profanations which have been inflicted by the unholy policy o £ the ruling powers upon that which is higher than all power , and ought to have , been saved from all indignity ! Sir , the public ear has been stunned with
lamentations of this complexion—and all the art of language , all the resources of hate , have been exhausted upon the system which has presumed to abridge ( they call it to mutilate ) the sacred records , and adapt them to the peculiar necessities of a people whom superstition may Indeed oppress , but whom we hope to God fanaticism may
never rescue , ' And yet , Sir , this work of subtraction— this policy of adapting- —o ^ consulting for time and place and exigency—had not been unheard of before . Will it , in short , be believed when reverend persons as well 4 n Dublin as in London , were lavishing anathemas on the impiety of" selection , " that no fewer than one hundred and twelve chapters , together with three entire Books * of the Jewish * Song of Solomon , and two Books of Chroniolest
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Canon , were discarded from the scriptural services of the Church of England ? Will it be believed , when gentlemen were telling with horror of the presumption " of deciding perchance by a show of hands , whether the prophecies of Ezekiel were fit for perusal t , " that of the eight-and-forty chapters which compose that
prophetical book , no fewer than thirty-seven were omitted in the scriptural services of the Church of England ? Will it be believed , when reverend persons were quoting amidst a tempest of shouts and bravos ! the - word , s— " If any one shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy , God shall take away his part from the
book of life , "—that all this while , their precious palms were smiting the head of . the spiritual mother that bore them ., inasmuch as out of tile two-andtwenty chapters of the Book of this very prophecy , no fewer than nineteen are altogether omitted in the scriptural services of the Church of England !!
How true it is that they who live in glass houses should be careful of throwing stones ! But such men are incapable of prudence . At every step they take , retaliation tenfold is ready to overwhelm them . Wherever
these copyists have had an opportunity , it has in truth been amusing to observe with wlfat fidelity they adhere to the pattern which has been set them , and with what untiring repetition they bandy the nick-names of * ' Papist , Radical , and Socinian . "
* Sir , it is honourable to Rom in Catholics to be so reproached : I will not say a syllable in their defence . They will , I doubt not , have their re ^ ward . Their country will be pacified , their people will be improved , and their own character and intelligence f Rev . Mr . Melville—JSxetev Hall .
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PUBLISHED BY C . FOX , 67 , PATERNOSTER-ROW .
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Matter To Be Contrary To Scripture;
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1832, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1717/page/1/
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