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John Canne , who lived upwards of a century ago , and whose edition of the Bible , with , marginal references , is still held in high and deserved repute , was reproached by a high churchman with indulging a similar aversion to these uninspired parts of the sacred writings . Dr . Grey ,
endeavouring to depreciate the memory of this excellent man , sarcastically remarks—" This Canne , because no human inventions were to be allowed about the worship of God , cut out of his Bible the contents of the chapters and the titles of the leaves , and so left the bare TEXT without binding or covers !! " Mr . Brook who mentions
this singular circumstance in his LAves of the Puritans , subjoins an apologetic paragraph which deserves to be here transcribed . — " Admitting this to be the fact , surely it was not in the power of bigotry itself to account
what he did a very great crime . It was no violation of any existing Canons , Constitutions ^ or Act of Parliament , nor could it be followed by any v ^ ry evi l consequences so lon g as he preserved the whole of the sacred text
I ' tf ADULTERATED . " I shall only add , that amidst the incessant jarrings of Christendom every consistent Protestant ( Trinitarian and Unitarian ) must cordially Mite in the diffusion of the sacred
records to the remotest regions of the earth . They constitute our surest guide to holiness and happiness in this preliminary state of being , and the knowledge which their pure and unadulterated contents impart will be absorbed in the full and uninterrupted efful gence of eternal day . | anv Sir * Yours repectfully , J . EVANS ,
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It is now become absolutely necessary to remind your readers of the original grounds of the present controversy . In your Repository for Jan . last , ( p . 25 ) two infidel writers thought proper to revile all thosewho attempted to defend Christianity in
this country , as " cowards , " and to which courteous term ha » since been added ( p . 280 ) that of « braggadocios " and to affirm that their " cruelty , baseness , and detestable cowardice , " were so shocking , as to excite *« deep detestation and horror . !'
Infidels ^ were likewise represented as having " great gags put in their mouths , their hands bound behind their backs , and threatened with fine , tortures , imprisonment , perhaps death , if they uttered a syllable , " That it
was known , " the more strong and unanswerable their arguments , the more certain would be their personal ruin . ' One of the writers alluded to added—He was " sure that any man of a free and generous spirit must scorn the conduct of all such
defenders of Christianity . " Now , Sir , I confess that on reading such language I felt , not unbecomingly I hope , for the honour of Christianity and of its defenders 5 all of whom , from Bacon , Milton and Locke , down to the present day , were thus
grossly calumniated . I therefore thought proper to enter a protest against such calumny . I likewise , although in language the most decided , expressed my abhorrence of all penal laws in matters b £ religion , ridiculed the manner in which infidels were
represented to be restrained - I 7 and concluded with expressing my certainty as to the grand facts of Christianity , in the language of the primitive Christians , naturally supposing
that I had , when professing my faith as a Christian , the same right to the word sure , as the infidel , when expressing his scorn and detestation of the defenders of Christianity . I have
now , Sir , stated the sum and front of my offence . For this lam held up to your readers , as a character equally contemptible and odious , as one claiming infallibility * , as a persecutor
and a hypocrite , whose professions are only to be regarded as those of certain . state hypocrites , " mere words of course , ' used for the purpose of deception : and what renders this portrait truly curious is , it is drawn , not
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— mm Hackney , July 4 , 1815 . irr ' I is remarked by one of our most * Popular authors , ( The Freeholder ) ^ controvers y wit h an irregular Jjjter is something like duck-hunting . ; « en you have the animal in full » - ^^ F ^^ ^ ^ ^*^ ~ - ^^ ^ m ^» ^^ * « 4 i > m ^ mm ^» ^™ ^^ ^^ -m ^^ — - - ^
?*> he suddenly dives underwater , Jj P ^ sently appears where least extim ^ which means you some-^ are wearied out in the pursuit , , 5 /^ ob J - This , drK forcibly struck me on reading terl ^ * t Number [ p . 351 ] the let-
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Mr . Flower * s Defenceugainst the Charges ofCcnididus . 4 jo
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1815, page 419, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1762/page/19/
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