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't pectations is not explained * ^ The only thing said in tire prospectus which could give rise to this remark was- ? - ** The selections from Ezra and Nehemiah will be given in the version of a
friend , ** which surely does not imply that the public mfght expect an original version of some book . As mention was made of the several versions from which the rest of the selections were taken , it was thought best not to pass over Ezra and Nehemiah without informing the public that the old version of these
books in the parts selected would be altered , and the friend was mentioned at that time , because the editor had not yet made tip his mind to undertake the task of revision and emendation , himself . I am quite sorry that nay countrymen should be given to understand that I had excited expectations which I had not only failed to gratify , but was unwilling to explain why I
had not gratified them . * I have been actuated , through the whole of my long and laborious undertaking , by the warmest desire to promote the elucidation and diffusion of truth : it cannot therefore be supposed that I should wantonly , or even carelessly , have excited expectations without taking due pains to gratify them , Your ' s , &c , > ¦ ' Theophrus Browne .
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€ > N UNITARTANISM , AS CONNECTED WITH VITAL RELIGION AND POPULAR PREACHING . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , It must certainly be a matter of rejoicing to all the friends of
primitive Christianity , that at length a society is established for the express purpose of promoting unitarianism by means of popular preaching . This mode of communicating religious truths I have long considered as the most effectual way of spreading it in the world . This was the method pursued by our Lord and his followers , at the commencement of the
Christian religion ; and by this has almost every denomination of that religion made its \^ ay amongst mankind . \ That it is good to be always zealously affected in a good cause , we have the express authority of an apostle ; but how one can be zealously affected in any cause , and yet neglect to demonstrate that zeal bv some outward , active measures , \
cannot readily conceive . If the doctrines of unitarianisni are the truths of the gospel , they are undoubtedly worthy of being earnestly contended for : if they are the commandments of men only , the more they are neglected the better . But what are the doctrines of unitarianism ? it is not my intention to lay down
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 243, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/19/
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