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    JJut even this would not have assuaged the wrath of the angry Reviewer : for 2 . He is still more offended that the I . V . is represented as formed upon the basis of Archbishop Newcome r s . But , learned Sir , is it not so ? Do not you yourself again and again admit the fact , that except in certain

    passages , " the alterations are neither frequent nor important ?" Ought not then the editors to acknowledge th ^ ir obligations to the learned prelate ? And if they had

    failed in this duty , would not you yourself have been the first triumphantly to have' brought forward the charge of detected plagiarism in addition to all your other appellations of abuse ? and with much better reason ?

    Yes but cc the ^ assumption of the name of a respected prelate for the sanction of a work in which every doctrine professed by the church of England , and by that respected membex of it , is directly attacked , is more than artifice , it is a falsehood and a fraud . "Who told this Reviewer what the venerable primate's creed was ? But that is not the question . . The editors we ^ e under the necessity of introducing , Jhe archbishop ' s Ji ^ me ; and to guard ( against the

    possibility of its being mistaken as giving a sanction to their views they have inev ^ ry instance where they have departed from his text , scrupulously set down the private ' s version at the foot of the

    page . To state this fact did not fell in with our honest Reviewer ' s design , for what then would have tepotne of his charge of fraud and falsehood ? But 3 . We have not yet got out of fUe titkspage . It moves the holy

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    indignation of our Reviewer , that the I . V . is published by an asso - ciation of persons styling themselves c * a Society for promoting Christian Knowledge , " Whom , in the very next page this perspicacious gentleman discovers to be a Society of Unitarians . O ! sim ~ pie Unitarians , not to keep their secret a little better . No sooner

    is this grand discovery made , than this worthy gentleman , who is probably a member of another Society for promoting Christian knowledge , who are not Unitari - ans , and who had no concern in

    the Improved Version , breaks out at once into a paroxysm of pious rage , and denounces the work as having " for its main object the propagation" of Unitarian tenets , which tC object is pursued with perseyering industry and audacious freedom ; for which purpose the sacred code of Christian faith

    is mutilated and perverted with the most unsparing violence /* &c . &c &c . This whole paragraph is a beautiful illustration of the fifth rule of criticism , to which

    the reader , if he pleases , may turn . In the mqan time I may be permitted to observe , that a society of Unitarians have just ax good a right to style themselves u a Society for promoting Christian Knowledge , " as a society of orthodox believers in Bartlett ' sbuildings . And be it known to this angry Reviewer , and his zealous associates , that if openly to promulgate the important and fundamental truth , that there is

    one God , even tho Father , who is the sole object of religious wor , ship , and one Mediator between God and man , the man Christ Jesus , is to be audacious , we will be still more and more audacious .

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    The Quarterly Review and the Improved Version . 375

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 375, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/21/