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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
Hackney , sift , Aug . 1 , 1809-HA VING in the last communication discussed the miscellaneous remarks of the
Quarterly Reviewers upon the Improved Version of the New Testament , let us now 3 Secondly , attend to \ vhat they advance upon the subject of the preliminary chapters to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke . This
the learned Reviewers appear to consider as their vantage ground . Here they plant their strong bar * teries , and from hence they discharge their most formidable voU lies of argument , or abuse , at the £ ditors and Annotators of the
Improved Version . It may first be proper to state what these horrific Editors have done ; for , from the outcry that is raised against them , it would he natural to conclude that they WJ struck out half the New
Testa-, and mangled the remainder , without any reason or authority ? m order to support their own un . scri ptural system . The truth is
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that in the case before us , they have not expunged or altered a single line . The chapters in question are printed in their usual place ; but those parts of them ,
the genuineness of which has beeri disputed by critics of great repute , are printed in italics , and the arguments for and against the question are stated calmly at the foot of the page .
It is-a very silly and a very stale artifice , but it has its effect upon unthinking readers , for the advocates of one system to represent those of ariother as wilfully
wresting and perverting the scriptures in favour of their own peculiar tenets . Of this sort of logic the writer of the article-in the Quarterly Review has amply availed Ci
himself . It would seem , " says he , p . 318 , that these commentators are determined at all events to hold their own opinions , and to m « ke the scripture ^ support them by some * means or other . " And he has ; io doubt convinced all his readers , who were by ignorance or prejudice properly pre- »
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY OF , Theology and General Literature .
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Nt ) . XLIV / J ' AUGUST . [ Vol . IV . 1 , ' ~ *~ 1 - ¦ - 1 " *¦¦ ¦ — ¦ — - — . .. - . . ... ... 1 _ .... j-. .- —i
Miscellaneous Communications.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .
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VOL . IV . 3 I
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REMARKS UPON THE ACCOUNT OF THE IMPROVED VERSION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IN THE QUARTERLY REVIEW . LETTER II .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/1/
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