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tioris , -selected by the Roman , Catholic Archbishop * bf Dublin , published under the auspices of this society , but the very man who has most distinguished himself in a certain Bible society , and elsewhere , by his illiberality in every matter connected with the Roman Catholic religion , was the man who published or procured the publication of the only edition of the Rheims New Testament , without note
or comment , that has appeared , and in that edition ( which he distributed ) we find such texts as these , * Except ye do penance ye shall 5 all likewise perish / * - ' Jacob worshipped the top of his rod . In the Hibernian Bible Society also , extracts are in general use , $ nd very few comparatively of those who attended the Kildarestreet society schools , read the bible , as its use was restricted to the upper class alone , and the Roman Catholic children generally left the school when prepared to enter that class , that they might
thereby avoid the reading of the bible . To me it seems rather curious also , that a crusade should thus be preached up against selections , by a church , the dignitaries of which , not many years ago , would not allow bibles to be distributed , without having a prayer-book tagged to each to give it due effect ; and surely the clergy of that church should have borne in mind that the service which they read every Sabbath , is little more than selections from the scriptures , and that , in fact , they never read in churches Ihe whole bible . This reflection should have tended to render
their opposition less bitter than it has proved , and should have operated in some measure as an argumentum ad hominem , and made them a little more diffident , while treading on ground so delicate , especially as some of those who have come forward in defence of the unmutilated word of God , have on this very ground charged the government with a conspiracy to undermine the foundations of all religious institutions , and condemned the
system recommended by it , as anti-Protestant and anti-Scriptural in its nature and tendency . It has also been objected to these extracts , that * they presuppose that the bible as God gave it , is unfit for popular use—that man can improve the book of God and render it suitable for a purpose , for which , without his interference , it would be unfit . * Had not this allegation been urged at a public meeting , I should have been almost inclined to doubt that
any nian could have entertained such an objection—and equally extraordinary was it , that this objection was not at once rebutted by men there present , who themselves , in the year 1825 , had given their opinion on oath , in favour of the very measure against which this sapient argument > vas levelled . But I would ask such cavillers , is there any parent who would allow his children to read
each and every portion of the Bible ? Would these very men conduct their children step by step , through every book , and chapter , and verse of the scriptures , from-Genesis to Revelation t Equally futile is it to affirm that these extracts have been made to meet the wishes of a particular church . It is not from a desire to please any particular sect that abstracts are allowed—it is not
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1832, page 313, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1812/page/25/
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