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i& tbm passage seems to have been first so translated by Cranmer . In Je rente ' s iLatiti Bible the passage stands thus , ( edit , printed in 1479 ) ticut et Dtu& f » Christo donavit w&bis * ' In the * old authorised
English yer ^ ion u as > also God in Christ bath pardoned you /* Pur-He r has in 4 * even as God in Christ bas forgiven you- " Newcome and the Improved version of the New Testament , " as God also through Christ bath forgiven you . " Arad Wakefield to the like import .
No person that understands ever so little of Greek , will deny that by far the most literal and usual meaning of the preposition sj > is , in or t ( trough ^ nor is there * ny plausible pretext for rendering ifr otherwise io this passage , see
ing that in the genuine scriptures , s&tk even io < the received version , < 5 o < J is ijever said to forgive any f $ r 9 pn for Christ ' s sake , or on aecopnt of any other consideration than his own boundless mercy and goodness . When therefore the
jcoippiier . * of thj * Epistle had set qu& with so sound a doctrine , and might have appealed to Purveys tcaoelanon , who was" of their own ^ fer ^ uabiooi , as , well a& to a cloud ofiat ^ erwitnesses of far greater authjo / i ^ yy 1 lament they should have * tumbi # don this erroneous
readiv $ & as I lamented some years . h « w fi } i ( % that Joseph Gumey Be van * , in bis life of tbe apostle Paul , stqald have given it witbout muy ifrtift ' Ihongon ,. although he has re ^ - I ^ i ^ fced seve ral other l ess impoiu
% ftt erwiTS in the aaooet chapter , 3 ^ ii « th ( in the recei ve d version l ^ w « iim ^ t ^ c tion C ^ This falad rcadv i ^ & t ^ pr ^ fc entB ^ ist as the c&use Mtmtk pfofiabilily o £ God ^ whece ^ ¦* th rmn v ** riy ^ ftrtetoAiA heLd a a » JLf ^ U ; . JB #¥ «* mnU ita ^ e kttiwi ) .
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that God ' s love is not we efcet of Christ ' s satisfaction , " but it unison with the doctrine laid down as the present belief of the Society in the first paragraph of this Epistle , that " Christ is the proper gift and effect of God ' * love . "
The next paragraph is excellent In that which follows " the youth in genert ^ a re exhorted u to seek the society Gf ^ experieMed Friend * , — -and > to receive their admonition
with meekness and attention / If this exhortation us to tbe first part of it had been reversed , it might have been as appropriate and ju * dicious ; How shall those youths
who are only * about to leave the protection of a parent , and to enter iota the busy scenes of life / rightly distinguish between those who ate really men of experience , and those who are not ? It seeaw
to me the proper province of all that ore duly qualified by know . " ledge and experience in any Chris , fcian cfeurch , to seek out those who are in need of counsel , aad having
found ? them , to be willing' to impart it always remembering how mach may depend on the manner m which this important duty if discharged . That the way to succeed witb the greatest certainty i *; to conciliate their affections fy
kindness of deportmeB ^ ^ eonvfcftce their understandings ^ thm awivAntdges of attenAng to th » advice imparted . c v ? th
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1812, page 614, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1753/page/18/
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