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conformation * Thus the words will be , in the form of a solemn oath : * ' As the Lord , the God of Israel , liveth , I will try my father . " This method of remedying the passage is
rendered probable , from the similarity of contiguous letters , a very frequent source of omissions in manuscripts ; if we suppose the error to have crept in after the introduction of the Chaldaic forms of letters - The Septuagint
supplies the chasm thus ; " 1 he Lord , the God of Israel , knoweth that , " &c . The Syriac , and the Arabic in Walton ' s Polyglott ; " The Lord , the God of Israel , is witness that 1 will try my father . " J . P . S .
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Dover , Sir , August 10 , 1819 . BEG leave to acknowledge the I kindness of your Correspondent Verbum Sat , who , in your last Number [ p . 413 ] very properly corrected an error into which , as he truly observed , I was unintentionally led , and also to add , that although the
distinction did not occur to me while I was writing that letter , yet the sentiments therein expressed equally apply to all those Unitarian friends who have so generously contributed to our design . B . MARTEN .
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Sir , York , July 31 , 181 Q . WHEN my late most excellent friend IVfr . Lindsey was hesitating about the duty of resigning his station in the Established Church , I remember his frequently mentioning ,
with great interest , the Memoirs of Mr . Thomas Emlyn—the narrative of his violent cruel persecution—the controversy in which he was compelled to engage with many leading characters in the Establishment , as
well as with the furious bigoted Presbyterian ministers of Dublin . I was not at that time fully aware how painfully my friend ' s own mind was occupied in considering the sacrifice he might himself be compelled to
make , should the clerical petition , intended to be presented to Parliament , be finally rejected ; but I was deeply affected by the high admiration he often expressed , and to which he afterwards bare public testimony in " The Apology / ' of the patience , the
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fortitude , and the pious resignation with which that eminent confessor endured the loss of fortune , of friends , of reputation and of liberty , rather
than consent to make any concession contrary to his own firm conviction of the strict unity , the infinite goodness , and the peerless majesty of the great Father and Lord of all .
A letter which 1 received lately from a very eloquent , popular preacher at Boston , in America , and as I hear from many friends in that country , a very pious , excellent man , brought powerfully to my mind all the former interesting associations of 177 I > with
the character of Mr . Emlyn , many of which , if not wholly obliterated in the long period of almost half a century , were at length become less influential and vivid . Speaking of Mr . Cappe ' s Sermons on Devotional
Subjects , which were last year reprinted at Boston , and of which my friend sent me a very able Review by a Mr . Ware , of that town , taken from a periodical work which has lately commenced there , says , " I have long seen and felt that Unitarianisrn will
gain infinitely more by being exhibited as a living spring of devotion and high virtue , than by the ablest defences . " He afterwards adds— This leads rne to remark that the modern
Unitarians have been wanting in justice and gratitude , ( as far as 1 can judge , ) to that venerable confessor , Emlyn . I read not long ago his Life , and a part of his writings . The latter ave able defences of the truth , not often surpassed by his successors , and his Life filled me with admiration . " " The
Unitarian calendar is not so rich in saints ( nor that of any other church ) as to spare a confessor of such primitive zeal as Emlyn . " I design , however , to refer my correspondent to Mr . Lindsey ' s Apology , and his other works , which he may probably have
never seen , in order to shew that he is in part mistaken . I imagine it is but lately that Unitarianism has made much progress among our trail satlantic brethren ; but it seems now to
be spreading very rapidly in Massachusetts , and most ardently do I wish that it may farther recommend itself to them , not merely by the enlightened views , but by the holy exemplary lives of their English pre-
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490 Character 6 f Mr . Emtyn .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1819, page 490, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1775/page/30/
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