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    BIBLICAL CRITICISM;

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    have styled himself the lute Rector of Cold Norton * it had been truly in character . I know there is a certain chapter in a justly admired treatise of Moral Philosophy which can make this sermon accord with its title-page . Alas , poor human nature ! the intellect of such a man as Paley employed in the servile task of framing a doctrine to suit his previous practice , and

    leave him a convenient portion of the loaves and fishes : yet what chapter of the New Testament will justify the learned Archdeacon ? I am , Sir > your * s Nov . 16 , J 806 , Whistonius .

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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository * Sir , The intelligence which you lately communicated , of the intention of the London Unitarian Society ^ to publish an improved Version of the New Testament * founded upon that of

    Archbishop Newcome , would , I doubt not , be received with niuch pleasure by many of your readers ;•* - > -to myself it was peculiarly pleasing . The object has long been a favourite one \ lrith me ^ and by the aid of the invaluable labours of Wakefield , Symonds , and Newcome , I hoped , at some future time , to furnish to those friends of truth who could not read the

    original for themselves , such a representation of it , as might materially assist their understanding of its contents . I am rejoiced that it is ii \ better . hands ; but I beg leave to avail myself of your highly useful Repository , to suggest to those who have the conducting of the Version , a few hints , which , if of no use in themselves considered , may lead to something useful *

    The Version of the excellent Newcorne partakes so much of the venerable simplicity of the common Version , that the choice of it fixes the plan of that now proposed , and at the same time furnishes a presage of its value . I believe that the tonductors of it will occasionally find that Newcome has departed from the common Version where it was not necessary ; and in every such departure he should be left , because the pur- < poses of an improved Version will be best answered by exciting as little as practicable in the minds of the readers , the feeling that they have not before them , what has been long

    connected with their best thoughts and feelings . I believe that it will not unfrequently be found , that the Versions of Tyndale and Geneva , afford a satisfactory renderings where the < : onatnon Version does not . Where this is thexase *

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    594 On an improved Version of ( he New Testament .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1806, page 594, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1730/page/34/