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On the Rev . Samuel Newton ' s Objections to the Improved Version . Letter I .
Sir , HAVE sometimes thought that I the Improved Version islikelthu-Tiers spear , which causes every thing that is touched by it , to exhibit itself in its proper form and colour . It is a fact , that certain beings u walk the earth" with every appearance of men ,
of scholars , and sometimes even of Christians , and commonly pass for such , who , nevertheless , if they happen unfortunately to come into contact with the Improved Version , instantly start up in the hideous shape of fiends , vomiting forth the infernal language of Billingsgate .
This remark has been unfortunately exemplified in a late " Attempt to expose the errors" of that Version , by the Rev . Samuel Newton , of Withani . In which " Attempt , * ' the words " rash , " " daring , " " false , " " impudent , * "flippant / ' " blundering , ' " insidious , " ** perverse , " iC profane , " " mischievous , " 4 € childish , " "
distorted , " " trumpery * " " conceit , " " " witling , " " idle stuff , " " ignorance , " « folly , " " . temerity , " " effrontery , " Cl prejudice , which has neither eyes nor ears , " &c . &c , are bandied about
Tfith all the familiarity and the insolence of the Bampton school ; and , as is usual with the tribe of imitators , the Author has urged this spirit to a still more extravagant extreme , and a more outrasreous violation of the
decorum of civilized life . And after he has exhausted hisi own vocabulary of abuse , and railed himself out of breath ; invokes the aid of a learned--member of the University of Oxford to complete the charge . * Now the first question which
pre-* Dr . JLaurence , who has favoured the public with a pamphlet of " Critical Re ^ flections upon the Improved Version , V written in a ^ style sufficiently pompous , volxtv
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seats itself upon redding such a publication is , . who is this writer that assumes such airs of authority ; that thrusts himself into the chair of theological criticism , and with the tone of an oracle pronounces anathemas , not only upon the unfortunate Edit
tors of the Improved Version , who ave the objects of his marked indignation , but upon tlie authorities to which they appeal , niauy of whom have been hitherto regarded as some of the brightest ornaments of the Established or the Nonconformist Churches ?* Who is this accuser of
consequential and abusive . Of this short pamphlet the learned writer spends no less than seven introductory pages in vehement invective against a gross hi under , which he imputes to the Editors of the Improved Version , but which in fact
proves to be the writers own . Nor is it the only error which is to be found in his work . Pomposity of style , and bitterness of invective , mark the whole of Dr . Lau - rence ' s , publication : which Mr . Newton seems to have taken as his model . Dr .
Laurence , however , is both a scholar and a critic , though theology and biblical criticism are not his Jbrte . ' Perhaps , indeed , on this account he may be less excusable than others who have not the same
pretensions to respect * * It is truly amusing to see in what a cavalier manner this gentleman disposes of some of the most eminent critics aud commentators upon the Scriptures , viz . Mr . Locke , the father or" rational
criticism , to whose judicious commentaries the theological student is under unspeakable obligations . Of this distinguished critic , the Author thus contemptuously expresses himself , p . 16 :
" MichaeJis ' s Greek exceeded that of Mr . Locke as far as Moot Blanc exceeds in height the Norwich Household HilL' * Dr . John Taylor , who , by pursuing' the light which Mr . Lcqke struck out , has supplied the biblical student with the true key to the interpretation of the apostolical
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No . CLXHI . j JULY , 1819 . ~~ [ Vol . XIV .
Miscellaneous Communications.
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/1/
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