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from the time 6 f their being uttered , and long since . 4 ccf 0 iff * plashed * The greatest care , however , --lias been taken to retain what is amply sufficient for the faith and practice of every
Christian /' The selections from the book of Leviticus are properly few '; they do not fill three pages j but we did not expect to find the book of Judges reduced to a single chapter , or the two books of Chronicles reduced in the same proportion ; some of Job ' s monotonous complaints might have been advantageous ! y
exchanged for some of the interesting stories of those valuable records of Jewish history * The ample collections from the Psalms will bear and perhaps require weeding and thinning in a future edition . Solomon ' s Song is wholly and wisely omitted . The books of Jonah and Malachi are in our opinion too much
curtailed ; what can excel the former m interest as a tale ; or the latter as an affecting admonitory expostulatory address to a corrupt and profligate people ? The few introductory verses taken from several of the minor prophets serve no other purpose than to shew that in the author's opinion they belong to the canon of authentic scripture *
The New Testament will less beaf narrowing than the Old *
and here of course we have followed Mr * B . with mote hesita * tion and caution . We confess ,, however , that if he has used the pruning knife in places where we should have beea withheld by sentiments of admiration , he has at the same time forborne to use it in others where we think it might have been employed to advantage . The four Gospels might have been so barmo- *
nised and abridged as to have formetl but one regular history ; at least the same action or discourse needed not to have been several times repeated ; we are surprised that in a work \ frhere conciseness is of Such prime importance , these circumstanced should * have been overlooked . The distended size of the Gospels leaves little room for the Epistles , which seem almost crowded into a corner ; the two last letters , interesting from
their familiarity , of the Apostle J ohn , and the beautiiul letter to Philemon , are wholly excluded ; and what was less to be expected , not a single extract is made from the book of . the Reve * lation , so fertile in moral precepts * and evangelical promises A few verses from the epistle of Jude conclude the volume .
Mr . B . has adopted * ' the most approved modern transla--tions ; " Ezra and Nehemiah only * are translated bv himself . From the Prospectus of this work , which appeared about two years ago , we were led to expect an original version of some book of the Old Testament , by << a friend of the au *
* Sec the three first chapters .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 90, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/34/
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