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the whole appeared to be necessa * ry . We are not i ? Bfort&ed who the original conaaufctee werer ^ to $ t we perceive from the ueport itnu serted in the Repository , vol . L p . 3 $ 3 . that it was afterwards increased by the addition of alt the ministers who were members of
the society . Iheir assistance , and it is believed that of some other geotletnen ^ was requested by a circular - -letter , and those members * of the committee who resided ux London and took an
active concern in the work , seem from the reports , as well as from the result of their labours , to have devoted themselves to the dbc * discharge of the trust . In their last report they 6 the
say ^ rom . mitfee make no apology for the length of Hm& 5 being upwards of two years , w&ich has been occupied in the preparation of ibis work . They are Conscious of their own tanremitted attention to
it , and that they have advanced with ad misch rapidity as was consistent with- the mature of the undertaking , and with the respect due to tb « numerous and respectable subscribers to it ;"
The rodders of the In ^ proved Version certainly have ntpMufight to expect from the editors of it more than they have all along professed as their principle ^ which indeed was determined by their
constituents . Some few may regret chat an entir * Jy new version wa ? not attempted ; and we are convirtced that a more prevailing source of regret is , that the Improved Version is not more like
the Common Version : but the editors have a full right to reply to both parties , * allowing the general desirafeleness of tbe plan actually adopted , ascertain how we have executed it . '
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. In o&sT fay the * remarks we shalt keep fibia principle in-vmw , so for as tbe a&ertioifti of _ tfae < cbtigfn ] Jffiee were limited by it . On &t leaef one imp&rta , &t pomt , wkevfr wa
presume tkey wes& > a ? t fuli liberty to pursue their own ^ views , 4 * ' ^ shall express our decided dissert from chose which th ^ y have followed ; and we shall take sot ice
o £ case's ^ - ia whieli they do not appear to us to have s * iceeed < p 4 io ? improving uporu their basis , ancl perhaps * may be ted to point out others in which it might have ? been improved where it is left , unaltered : but we do feel the
general value of their labours ; and believe that an important service is rendered to ? this cause of truth by what . i-s- d&nts There it nothing hox ^ cver , t » the undertaking which precludes farther im *
pri > vemenr . Tfte f ^ itors themselves never hold it up » s a perfecf , but ofafy- as ^ af * Jnipr o ved version ; and though provision is made for
preventing usotess- ifinovations in this publicatioa of the " soeitrty , yet by the very provision useful changes are ei ^ conraged ; ( see the Fifth JFteport of the Committee . )
We have seldom assumed the critical office with a more impres - sive feeling of the delicacy of our task ; and we shall rejoice if we succeed in the estimation of the
truly carHid in following the pointings of a love of truth and fidelity , and the general d u ^ y which a critic owes to his reader , without violating that which h £ owes to his author .
Our plan in the prosecution of our task will be to consider , first , the text employed ; next , the variations' * from the basis of the whole ; and lastly , the notes . Jnt > the consideration of iheseobjects ^ we may possibly trespass a little
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 101, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/45/
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