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in or before 1659 , when Wood describes him as succeeding Needham in " his place of writing the weekly news in the time of Richard . " He is not named in Calamy ' s Account or Continuation . Probably he returned to Holland at the Restoration .
Lewis * in his " History of the English Translations , " ( p . 341 ) mentions an " edition of King JamesV' Bible in 8 vo , printed at Amsterdam 1664 , with marginal notes , shewing the scripture to be the best interpreter of scripture . " * I have an edition in 12 mo . . London
1698 , when Canne had probably been de ?« d some years . There is a preface to the reader signed John Canne , in which , though he appears in his text to have followed the common translation , he recommends one verbally literal , or as he expresses it " the original text of scripture rightly
translated , and as much as is possible , even word for word : withou t departing from the letter of scripture in the least . For it is necessary to preserve the letter entire , how inconvenient , yea how absurd soever and harsh it may seem to men ' s carnal reason , because the foolishness of God is wiser than
men . Yet Canne never professed to confine his publication to the bare text , as Dr . Grey supposed . He left such a profession to a modern society whose object deserved to be promoted by sim plicity and godly sincerity , instead
of the pretences of having received from King James ' s courtly translators the pure word of God and of circulating it , without note or comment , while every page of the book thus circulated , exposes the pious fraud . Canne has
abridged the head lines and contents of chapters in the common bibles ,, without however omitting their doctrinal leadings , for like King James ' s Divines , he can discover Christ every where in Solomon ' s Song , and his
* Of this edition " the title is within a border , al the top of which is a representation of the giving- of the Law on Mount Sinai . On each side a pillar with a vine wreathed round it , and at the bottom an eagle with its wings stretched out , in the
body of which is represented , as I suppose , Joseph ' s meeting his father and brethren , when they came into Egypt , alluding-, I presume , to Exod . xix . 4 . On each side of the eagle ' s legg ip printed 1 ( 364 . " Lewis , Hint , p . 341 .
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scriptural references are generally svs ^ tematic . f In the contents of p saim cxlix «< , he has omitted , on principle that power given to the Church to rule the consciences of men . "
In executing his purpose it is probable that Carme , like Priestley in arranging his Harmony , would avail himself of some " mechanical contrivance / 't He probably cut up two
Bibles , " leaving the bare text with . out binding or covers " 1 I ! and thus produced a marvellous tale fitted to the taste of such a willing believer on such a subject , as Dr . Grey .
At the close of Canne ' s preface he expressed a design to publish , or to leave prepared for the press , " an edition of the Bible , " probably of his own translation , " with large annotations . " Lewis supposes that this work never appeared . Some of your
f Thus in Genesis 1 st , God in to * first verse , and Let us make man in tht 26 th , are l ) oth explained by a reference to John v . 7 , the fiction of the three heavenly witnesses . t " I procured two printed copies of the gospels , and bavins' cancelled one side
of every sheet , I cut out all the separate histories , &e . in each gospel ; and having a large table appropriated to that use , I placed all the corresponding parts opposite to each other , and in such an order , as the comparison of them , which when they were brought so near together , "wai
exceedingly easy , directed . In this loos * order the whole Harmony lay before me a considerable time , in which I kept review . ing it at my leisure , and changing th « places of the several parts till I was as well satisfied with the arrangement of them as the nature of the case would
admit . I then fixed the places of all tliesi separate papers , by pasting- them in the order in which they lay before me upon different pieces of pasteboard , carefully numbered , and by this means also divided into sections . —I will venture to say that
by the help of such a mechanical contrivance as this , a person of a very moderate capacity , or critical skill , will have an advantage over a person oi' the greatest genius aud comprehension of mind without it . For by this means , the things to
be compared are brought under the eyt at the same time , and may he removed from one situation to another without trouble ; so that every thing" may be viewe to all possible advantage in every h ^ and nothing can escape , perplex or tract the attention . '' Pri < titZey * Harmony 1780 , Pief . p . xvii .
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54 $ Cannes Bible *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1815, page 548, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1764/page/16/
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