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lower the pride and narrow the conquests of scepticism . Infidelity subsists on the verbal errors of the Sacred Writings , and the doctrinal corruptions of the Christian faith ; take away these ,
render the translation of the Bible accurate and intelligible , and Christianity , as a system , amiable and rational—and you cause it to perish ; for this reason it hates instinctively all critical scriptural learning , and every scheme of just and liberal theology . - It sports with religion because it regards her as anile ^
deformed , and tottering ; let the coarse , patched , ragged , and cumbersome garment that now clothes and disguises her be removed , and let her appear in her proper youth , beauty , and vi gour , and it will slink away into obscurity , and its laughter will be turned into sorrow .
The present work is designed to place the Bible upon a level with other books , with regard to both form and matter . Selections and collections of beauties are agreeable to the taste of the day . The two Testaments do not require , indeed , to be
abridged on account of their bulk , but it must be conceded to Mr . Browne , that they have been read with less pleasure and benefit , owing to c < the intermixture of a considerable portion of less important matter with what is confessedly most excellent . "
The volume before us may be examined as a selection and as a translation . Mr . Browne ' s task in selecting the most important and useful parts of the Old and New Testament must have been not a little difficult , and in the midst of such a wide field of selection
it is impossible that he should not have omitted some passages which some of his readers would have wished t 6 see adopted , and adopted some which they would have chosen to have omitted . The idea of the selection is taken , we are told in the preface , from Dr . Watts ; to many of the Doctor ' s admirers it
would have been more satisfactory if the author had referred to that part of Dr . Watts ' s works wherein this plan is proposed . We ourselves are curious to know in what period of his life this timid ( although great ) man conceived so bold and liberal a notion ?
The rule which the author has laid down for the selection is judicious : " The omitted parts consist principally of genealogies , and other lists pi names , of , men , and places , recitals of J ewish
ceremonies and ritual observances ^ histories of bloody wafs atnei wicked rulers , descriptions of buildings , and narrations in voicing circumstances nat the most delicate , severe reproofs knd threatenings denounced against the * perverse arid apostate Jfews * and prophecies of inferior moment , extending to a sjoaall distance
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 89, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/33/
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