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ttie king eternal , immortal , invisible ., the only God , be honour and glory for ever and ever . Amen , __ This charge I commit unto thee son Timothy , accord-
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. Meww . * *~ Improwd Vetsion of the New Testament * ffT
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¦** * TSX « L PLEAS E D TO PKAXSJE , YET NOT AFRAOED TO BLAME . ** Pop * ,
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Art . I . The JN ~ e % D Te&tanient , in an Improved Version ^ vpon the Basis of Archbish op Newcome ' s JSFew Translation ; with a corrected Text , and Notes ? Critical and Explanatory . Royal Svo . pp * 640 , Two Maps . l 6 s . 1808 . J . Johnson and Longman and Co . London .
Whatever opinion is entertained respecting the execution of t { iis work , every oiie must admit the importance of the object ; a * id we presume fbatiew of the friends of what is catted rational Christianity ( which we believe to be scriptural Christianity , ) have been without considerable interest in the undertaking . The Christian scriptures , however faithfully translate , and however 'faithful the teJcSt of the
original ^ cannot from the- nature and period of their composition , be free from difficulties . That Such difficulties do exist , we are not disposed * to regret . The
common order of providence is not without them ; and some of thes > e are more overpowering to the human understanding than those which concern the Christian
revelation ; but it requires no extensivej&cquaintance with the human tniru ^ to perceive , that some of the most exalted affections could fcfcve Tao place m tlie 4 i « art ^ if all
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were clear and were obviously jugt and good , —that , as man is constituted , the culture of moral excellence requires the existence of difficulties in what we know of the dispensations of God . And why should we expect the more peculiar occurrences in the grand order of Providence to be free from
them ? or that the records of revelation should have been
miraculously preserved from all those causes of obscurity and
perplexity which must ever accompany all human methods of communica * . tion ? or that every intellect whea employed upon those records , should be miraculously preserved from the darkness and error to
which every one is more or less subject , when examining the works and ways of him whom w ^ cannot search out unto perfection ? It is not perhaps ^ oo much to maintain ^ that if there .-had been no such causes of obspurity aod perplexity , t }* e records of thjf Christian revelation wndld ftav *
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ing to the prophecies whUah went before , concerning tJiee ^ that by them thou mightest war a good warfare / ' &c . THEOLOGUS *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 97, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/41/
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