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, .. v JBloxJiam * - ¦ §«* . v . I iffeft . ISi 1823 * ¦> Tf HEARTILY wish every person in X the world could read , add ' . had free access to a correct copy of the Holy Scriptures . But the capital law of the Bible Society * % e * " . without note or comment /* and above all the
very many serious defects that the most learned and pious acknowledge attend our version , and many other very modern translations , have effectually prevented me from having- any thing to . do with the Bible Society . I sent a letter about the year 1810 to two monthly publications , in which I exhorted the distributors of Bibles and
Testaments seriously to consider whether they ought not to ; correct our version , before they proceeded to multiply the copies in so great a degree . When I give away a Bible or Testament , I put the following note in one of the blank pages at the end of it :
" 1 John v . 7 , ' There are three that bear record in Heaven , the Father , the W ° f d > and the Holy Ghost : and these three are one / " Dr . Doddridge thought this passage , doubtful .
^ Archbishop Newcome ha& left it put of bU translation of the New Testament : and the present Bishop of Lincoln says i $ + is tpurivus . See f ) r . Prett ^ man ' 8 Works , Vol . II . p . 90 . " And i » fnore' instances , probably , than one * I teave also pointed wt some acknowledged erroneous
translations . It appears frpim a pamphlet by Dr . P . Smith , tftat he had used to inform his Catechumens tljat I John v- 7 vvas not gentuafe ; and that this offended some of hfe brethren . He says in his own defence , * cl cannot , as an honest
man , permit my Catechumens to repea ^ the passage as if it were a part of the word of Gpd , a » 4 I should dread the effects ( and I know a painful instance ) of the discovery being made at a less propitious thtfe . " Vindiciae Academic ^ . Part 2 nd . By John Pye Sniitfi , DJD . j p 77 .
I also beg leave tp say , that Jt is not acting an open , honest and upright part , nor doing as we would be done k ?* *< t . # ive away Bibles or Testaments without taking such aotice of it , as is specified above . Truth stands in no need pf e $ ror to shore it up . Job says , « mu ye speak wickedly for
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God ? , aad t ^ lk deeeitWW for him r ' J&h \* jj ^ 7 + < i kis * &m aeaeftvpg ; . £ f very serious consideration , whether it is jtot acting contrary to the express command of' God , giv $ v& **» -in , iWfif iv . 2 i "Ye shall not ddd unt ^ * he
word which I cotaimand you , neither shall ye diminish augfit from it , that ye may keep ^ the ^ cora qaattdinent ^ o $ the Lord your God , which I qoinmarjd you . " Aud in Rev . xxii % 18 : ^ •* 1 £ any man slxall add unto these things , God shall -add unto him the plagues that are written in this book . " .- — -4 ' ' t "— Esq-, * a very zealous
and active member of the Bible Society , called on me , many months a ^ o , to procure orders ; for Bibles and Testaments . I informed him that I had Bibles aud Testaments put into my hands to give away , and that I had then some copies by me . He came in , took a seat , and we conversed for
a few minutes . When he rose up to go away , a few of my books being at hand , I pointed to them and said , there is Newcome , and there is Griesba < $ j and there is the Improved Version . ; , and then turning % o him , I laid my finger on his arm , and said in a very serious
manner , what a pity , Sir , it is that pur translation was not improved before the copies were so much multiplied ! He , I apprehend , meant to say that it was not expected at first that the copies woulji have been so numerou ^—• that the work would be done * , I
replied , yes—it will be done , —but in the mean time I have suffered a great deal from the defects of our translation ; and I feel for those that shall come after me ; I meant wheresoever these corrupt translations shall be dispersed . He some time after favoured me
with the loan of the second number of Mr . B ^ llamy ' a Translation of tl ^ fe Bible : when I returned it , I sent wi | h it a letter that contains the following passage : ' ; " I wi $ b , Sir you would seyiou&ly ask youraelfj whether the gteat Works of Kennicott and Griesbach , and the
New Translations of part of the Scwpturea by Bishop Lo \ yth , * Drs . BJayney , Geddes , DoddriUge , Archbishop Newcome / and many others , do nut cc ^ il up 6 n yoii and other persons to use all your influence to excite the British nation tc > improve pUr authorized Version of the Holy Scrkltuiresv Depend
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1823, page 99, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1781/page/35/
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