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    NeHch&teA in 1744 / These the fte ^ port says were collated in forming the new &cutian . But it is admitted that the text has been changed and the translation of Martin foisted into Oatervald , in 2 Cor * v . 19 , * ' in order to express more / decisively the

    Divinity of Jesus Christ I" C Le texte rofeme n ' a aabi aucun changenaent queleonqne , & P exception df ¦ un seul passage . Au verset 19 , chapitre v . de la 2 % aux Corbitliiens , la traduc tion de Martin , conservee sur ce point dans V edition d Osterwald de 1724 ,

    l ' ae * t £ e * galementdans Ian 6 tre , conune plus fidele et -expriinant plfts formeUe ment la divinit y de Je * su 8-Christ . " ) After this we cannot wonder at seeing in the Report a profession of unity with Roman Catholics on the subject

    of the Trinity ( p . 121 ) , or at finding one of the orators describing Christ as the " Saviour-God , who perished on the Cross ; " but we confess ourselves a little surprised at some

    semipapistical language with regard to the Virgin Mary ( p- 131 ) . This comes from the Lutherans , and the Reformed suffer it no doubt as tending to conciliate their Roman Catholic

    neighbours . ' With the Report we have received Bulletins 15 and 16 of the Society , subsequently published . The former of these gives an account , which is truly French , of the distribution of Bibles in a country-school , as ** Wisdom— - ^ p rizes . " On this occasion , the President addressed the successful candidates , and one sentence of his speech is a carious specimen of Bible - Protestantism : "On

    this subject ( of the Bible ) flee all discussion ; your piety would be destroyed by it and toleration would be injured . " The words must surely he stolen from some Boinish Priest's

    charge to his flock against the use of the Bible . In these Bulletins and in the Report itself much is said of M . Stapfer ' s visit to the last Annual Mcetr ing of the Bible Society in London . His Speech on this occasion is . trans * , lated , and all the compliments to him

    and praises of him are careftilly pre- * served . He makes a special report of his mission , the accuracy of whjcja may be judged of from Ids describing the Mends of the Bible Society under the general term of " Worshipers of

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    £ 2 urfcr , ' > w 4 Iron * Jos representing ft $ & common for the EagJisQ Dissenters to express their wish of seeing the National Church maintain its authority untouched . These publications are

    full of euktgmro ? on the late Mr , Owen , one of the Secretaries of the Bible Society . The Report contains an " Eloffe" upon him of thirty pages . His merits were doubtless

    great in relation to the Bible Society ; but it is a real injury to his memory to speak of his learning * , talents and virtues as if they were never equalled aqd the loss of them can never be supplied .

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    844 Liberal Theological Concessions I * Quarterly Review .

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    Sir , Nov . 1823 . WILL you allow me to call the attention of your readers to wfyat appears to me a striking proof of the progress of those liberal opinions wnich it is the main object of your Repository to advocate and diffuse ? In the Quarterly Review for

    last September is an article mtitled * ' BucklancPs Reliquiae Diluviante " in which I found , not without surprise and I may say delight , some observations so congenial to the opinions which I have always been taught to entertain , that I could not help giving way to a sort of

    triumphant feeling . It is true I am about as much entitled to triumph as the private who wears a Waterloo medal for having during the battle been somewhere within sound of the cannonading ; but one cannot help

    sympathizing ii | the triumph of one ' s party or principles , and we by-standers are apt to forget that we have ao right to appropriate to ourselves any part of the glory . You , Sir , have always advocated

    the principle that a liberal interpretation of the Scriptures , was most conducive to the interests of religion . Point after point has been contended , and though the opponents have Strug- * gled desperately and refused to own their defeat , we have seen them

    gradually abandoning the object of contention , mid cautiously avoiding to exeite fresh discuftftion ; but I am not aware that so bold an avowal of this fact has ever been made as is contained in the following extracts from the Quarterly Review . P . 162 . < ' Others object to it , "

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1823, page 644, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1790/page/28/