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to subject them to his merciless ferocity . How wretched that country where no meed of applause may follow the track of talent or of virtue —where knowledge and trie love of
freedom are pursued and persecuted as if they were curses and crimes 1 Otherwise , with what delight should I speak of some who , buried in the obscurity of the cloister , or retiring into solitude from the noisy crowd ,
sigh in secret and silence over the wretched fate of the land of their
birth , their admirable powers of body and mind fettered and frozen by the hand of despotisiri ! AH around them is slavery and ignorance ; to them remain alone the jov of holding-
converse with the wise and the good of departed time , and the ecstatic hope that their country will one day burst from its death-like slumbers , and spring forth " into liberty and life and light . "
And let those illustrious exiles , the martyrs of truth and freedom , who have been driven by an ungrateful and cruel tyrant from their homes and their country , and doomed " to wander through this miserable world /' take heart ; fora brighter and better
day is about to dawn upon Spain . I have expressed a hope , it should rather be a conviction , that this period cannot linger long . If the extreme of evil brings with it its own
remedy ; if human endurance will only support a certain weight of despotism ; if < tf there is a spirit in man ; ' * if there is a strength in virtue or in liberty—the intolerable fetters must be broken . ^ Que es esto , Autor eterno Del triste rnundo ? tu sublime noinbre Que en tl se ultraja u modcrar no alcauzas ?
,: a inielices venganzas Y saugre y muerte has desthiado el h ombre ? I A tantas desventuras Ning-un tennino pones ? < ; o el odioso Monstruo por siempre trinnfara orgul-Joso ? Melendez . J . B .
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~~~ Sir , September 0 , 3 , \ S \ 9 . ON referring to a Latin version of the Scriptures , in my possession , by Tremellius and Junius , printed at -Geneva , 1500 , I found that this
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notorious text was omitted , and ( he reason assigned in a note affixed , as follows : ** Notuni septimum versiculum Syrum Testamentum omittit , sicut etiam multi Giaeci codices : qui ita restitui posset , Nam tres sunt qui
testificantur in caelo , Pater , et Sermo , et Spiritus Sanctus : et hi ties unum sunt . Sed quia non modo in impresso sed etiam in manuscripto codice Heidelbergensi omittebatur , nee in omnibus vetustis Graecis codicibus legebatur ,, textui inserere non sum ausus : ne
tamen versiculorum fleret perturbatio , utque eorum tiumeri responderent numeris versiculorum Graeci textus , a sexto transilii ad octavum . " This affords an additional proof that the verse was not universally received , even at so late a period as the latter end of the sixteenth century ,. J . W . FAIRBRiDGE .
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Sir , MY attention has been lately recalled by a little publication , entitled " The Authenticity ^ and , consequently , the Genuineness of the Baptismal Com mission in its present
Shape , questioned upon the Evidence of the Apostolic History and of the Apostolic Writings , ' to a subject which at different times of my Yife has much occupied it , and never without increased conviction in favour of the
conclusion contended for by the writer , that baptism in the received form , was not the practice of the apostles . The author is evidently little skilled in the art of composition , and , in my opinion , does not do justice to the
subject of his inquiry : but he has said more than enough to invite others more competent to the investigation , to exercise their talents upon it , and particularly those of our fraternity . That baptism " in the name of the
Lord , " must either mean the baptism prescribed by our Saviour in the questioned form , or in a form that at once negatives the authenticity of the only remaining text to which orthodoxy can at all plausibly appeal in
vindication of its unscriptural hypothesis , appears to me scarcely a problematical proposition . Yet our Essex-Street Liturgy seems to suppose that either form may be adopted at the pleasure of the party : a supposition surely quite indefensible . Caw
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1 st Epistle of John , v . 7 * — On the Baptismal Commission . 5 QQ
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1819, page 599, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1777/page/11/
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