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the Jews were of their father the Devil , that the Son of God was maifestcd to destroy ^ the works of the Devil , that the Devil taketh away the word out of the hearts of " some , that the Devil will flee from us if we resist him , that some persons had turned a ^ ide * after Satan , but that God will quickly bruise Satan under the feet of his people ? Will you talk against the
existence of a soul or spirit , when these very translators tell you that the body without the spirit is dead , that God is represented as threatening the rich worldling that his soul should be required of him that night , and that they are not to be feared who are not able to kill the soul ? I will ' ask you but once more , how can you have the assurance to -dispute against the eternity of liell torments , when you * find it even here , that he who shall blaspheme against the holy spirit is liable to
everlasting punishment , and that the wicked in genera ! shall go away Into everlasting punishment r To this he added ., 4 i SV < - here what . \ our boasted Unit it nan" Version 1
tt-. iehes ! And I could has * : pointed out many other places , in which it destroys your new tangled creed , and con fir me the old orihodox faith . But J will leave you to think of what 1 have * suid
already . " So say ing ^ he vtent off with an air of mo . se insulting triumph . While I was thinking of all these things , and lamenting that the professed advocates of I lie Unitarian system should have put such formidable weapons in ~ to-the hands of their opponents , in comes another neighbour of rnine ^ a steady Unitarian . He saw me perplexed and uneasy ; a I told him what had made
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me so . cc Well ( says he ? ) but do you not know that there are two large editions of the New Version , in which there are notes , explaining some of these passages in a manner which ( I think ) would satisfy you ? " Are there so { said I ?) why then have not the publishers added these notes to the small edition ? * ' " To make it a cheap one , " said he . " But was it worth while ( said I , ) for the sake of saving six-pfrnce or a shilling nil the price of a copy , to let that very edition , which would he most generally read , go out in such a form as would ' mislead its readers , and that m some
very important points ? " u In ~ deed , my friend' ( said he ;) I lament this as much as you yourself do . But you know , we lately reiutin the Monthly Repository , a letter from one . of the Editors ; who saySj that they endeavoured to give only an Improved Version of the New Testament , not & perfect one . " u This very thing ( said J , ) surprizes me most of alL When they were undertaking a work of so much importance to
the interest of truth , ' and a work that is not likely to be undertaken anew in our time ; why should they content themselves with giving a version a little better than the old one , and not try to make ? it as perfect as possible ? " " I can no way account for it ( answereel rny neighbour ) . But what . if you wore to write to the editors ? Perhaps the ? publisher of , the Monthly Repository would insert a letter from you , as he has done some from other hands . What if you were t ' o write to them , to tell them of . the injury they have done to their own cause ? and to propose it to them , to publish an
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¦ ¦ * To the Authors of the Improved ^ Version . % 6 i
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1809, page 261, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1736/page/15/
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