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BIBLICAL CRITICISM.
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That this opportunity will hot pass without another appeal to the legislature , for the restitution of these riglits and privileges , which a numerous and respectable part of the community have so loiig been deprived of , or that this appeal will not be heard if vain , is the sincere wish of Sir ^ Tour ' s , &c . G .
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of others ; Keep thyself pure . Drink no longer water : but use a little wine , because of thy stomach and thy frequent infirmities The sins of some men are manifest before hand , going before to judgment , but some men they follow after . " How inadequately this represents the original , your readers may judge from the following observations . The men who first
corrupted the gospel were exceedingly depraved , being guilty of the grossest enormities in celebrating the love feast . The base practices of those men were the
origin of the calumny indiscriminately urged against its faithful votaries , that they put out the lights , in their festivals , and indulged in fornication , adultery and even incest . It was to repel this calumny that Luke , on saying Paul continued his discoui > c
until midnight , states tho following apparently insignificant fact . And there were many lamps , where we vctris assembled . Acts xx . S . The crimes of which the impostors were thus guil'y the apostle
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ter , but that many enlightened members of the established church will cordially co-operate ; that while we are making pretensions to greater knowledge than our
fore-fathers , it may not be found to be knowledge of that spurious kind , whose beneficial influence is to be sought any where , rather than in the useful and philanthropic endeavours of its possessors .
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Strictures on the Improved Version * 21 L
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One of the principal causes why Archbishop New come and his editorsliave so little succeeded a . in translating the N . T ., especially the epistolary part of it , was their seeming inattention to the peculiar circumstances on which the epistles are founded . They appear to have the ught that those who were illumined by the wisdom of God , were the only authors of antiquity who wrote without the ordinary intelligence of mciij or without that propriety and pertinency which subsist between other compositions and the occasions that had called thorn
forth . A great portion of the epistles might be cited in illustration of this remark . At present I subjoin the following from 1 Timothy , 5 . 20—25 . " Tho ^ e that sin rebuke before all , that others also may fear . I charge thee in the presence of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ , and of the chosen ? nessengersy that tliou observe these things without prejudice , doing nothing by partiality . V \ xt thine hands hastily on no * nan : and partake not in the sin *
Biblical Criticism.
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STRICTURES Q . N THE IMPROVED VERSION .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page 211, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/35/
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