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SIRS ,, I am a plain man , and in a humble station in lite . But I have long had a very earnest desire to understand the New Testament thoroughly . I have read it often , and have thought over it much . I am convinced that , on the whole it teaches the doctrines now called TJnitariaru However , I have been much puzzled by several particular texts in our common Bible ,, which seem directly contrary to them . And , as I cannot
suppose that the writers of the New Testament intended to contradict themselves or each other ^ I am obliged to conclude that these particular texts are cither ' mistranslated or misunderstood . AVhat pleasure then did it give me , to be informed , that a New Version < ff the New Testament was
published ; and that this was done by the Unitarian Society in London ! Surely thought I my difficult ies will now be all removed , and I shall see the real meaning of these passages which have perplex cd me so greatly . As I have not much money to lay out in books , 1 bought a neat pocket edition of this Version , which was recommended to mo as the most convenient for persons in my
situation ; and set myseli with eagerness to read and study it , in hope of receiving full satisfaction from it . Mow great was my surprise and gFief then to find , that some of the opinions I had given Dp were still held out as really contained in the New Testament , and that the authority of the new translators had confirmed what J
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expected it would have destroyed Cau it be , said I to myself , that these gentlemen are treading back their steps , and going tQ turn orthodox again ? While I was thinking of these things , a neighbour of mine , a member of a
Baptist congregation here , came in one evening , and seeing the New Version open on the table before me , his curiosity led him to look into it and afterwards to borrow it . When he returned it , I asked him of course what he thought
of it ? " Think of it ! " . ( said ho , ) " Why , if you believe that these translators have given the fair meaning of the New Testament , is it possible that you can hold to the Unitarian scheme another day ? Do they not tell you , that the word was a god , that the fulness of the deity dwelleth in him bodily , and that he divested himself of the resemblance to God * when he took on him the form of
a servant , ( if indeed he could divest himself of that which he did not so much as ^ rasp at ?) Now neighbour , will you ever again assert that Jesus Christ is not God ? And as for other things , — will you ever again find fault with me tor giving the title of Saint to the Evangelists and Apostles , and call it a mere Popish title ,, when this very Version teaches youy that the Gospels are according to St . Matthew , &c . and gives you the Epistles of St , Paul , St . Peter , &c ? Will you tell me , that there is no such spiritual being as the Devil or Satan , when you read here , that Jesus was tempted by the Devil or by Satan , thai ,
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TO THE AUTHORS OF THE IMPROVED YSRS 1 O 2 ? ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 260, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/14/
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