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try of condemnation , by the death of his Son ; so the apoatle days , " When we were enemies we were recorwfited unto God by the death 6 f his &&n /* In like manner in the Epistle to the Colossians , the apostle says ^ " and you being dead m your § ii * b ,
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and the uncircum < Hsion of your flesh , hath he ( God ) quickened together with him , ( i . e . Christ , ) having fbr given you all trespasses , blotting- out the hand-writing- of ordinances which was contrary to us , and took it out of the way , nailing it to his cross . " It was the law that stood in the way of the access of the Gentiles into the
kingdom of God : this he took out of the way , cancelled and blotted out , hailing it to his cross , representing it figuratively as put to death by being as it were crucified with him : hence
the apostle says , we are become dead to the law by the bod y of Christ , that being' dead in which we were held , " as in a state of captivity and slavery . pro be concluded in the next Number . ]
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Paris Protestant Bible Society . npHE Bible Society of Paris , es-JL tablished amongst the Protestants , will it may be hoped arouse this languid body , and produce a revival of the dormant spirit of reformation in their churches . The English
have been the means of originating , and are perhaps the instruments in upholding , this institution . How long such an association will be permitted to exist under the Bourbon government is questionable . A hint from the Thuilleries would dissolve the
whole fabric and cause the moat active agents of the Society to be dumb aad motionless . But whilst it lasts , the Society will we are persuaded , do some good , though it is not the fault of the anglicized members if it is not productive of some evil .
The last Report of the Society is lying before us , an 8 vo . volume of 240 pages * ( SociSU Biilique Protestante de Paris , J& \ Rapport jin wel . 1823 . " ) , The Rules state the object of the Society to be to distribute the Holy Scriptures amongst Protestant Christiana , in the autho-
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rized versions , without Note or Comment . The Marquis < te Jauecmrfr , Peer of France , is the . President : amongst the Viee ^ Presidents are Le Comte Boissy-d * Anglas , ; Beer < af France ; Le Baron Cuvier ; Counsellor
ef State ; lie Baron De I ^ essert , Member of the Chamber of Deputiesy lie Comte Maurice Mathieu de la Redortc , Peer of France ; Le Comte de Reinhard , Counsellor of State ; t # e Comte Ver Huell , Peer of ; France * &c » One of the Secretaries is Le Baron de Stael-Holstein , —A full
account is given in this Report of th « last Annual Meeting , held at Paris the 16 th of April . It bore a great likeness to the similar meetings of England ; the same long speeches , ' all
containing nearly the same matter ; the same bandying * of compliments from speaker to speaker ; and the same ardent expressions of loyalty and assurances of the increase of
loyalty from the circulation of the Scriptures . This said loyalty obliges the French Society to profess their object to be to circulate the Bible amongst Protestants only ; but it appears from some passages of the Report that a Roman Catholic who wilt take a Bible is considered as a
conquest . In one respect , the French Society goes . beyond the English . With the same avowal of no Notes or Comments , the object is evident of making the Society an engine of Orthodoxy , at least in those points on which Lutherans and Cafvimsts
are agreed . Though the several reeeived versions are pretended to be adopted , the last Geneva Version , the best of all the French translations , which is in use amongst a large proportion of the Swiss and French Protestants , is not even alluded to . It
is implied in the language of the speakers that the Protestants , speaking the French tongue , are Trinitarians ; and Messrs . Marron and Monod allow the language to pass uncontradicted . The English Missionaries must smile at their silence .
A barefaced violation of the fundamental rule of the Society is confessed in the Report . A Committee was appointed tojirepare a aew edition of (^ tervakl ^ French Bible . The editions of this wor \ : in general use are that of Basle in 1820 , and ^ that of
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Pnris Protestant Bible Society : * 643
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1823, page 643, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1790/page/27/
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