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    JOHN MANSEIiL. :

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    19 ^ , UNITARIAN CHRONICLE .

    same public manner . This statement is not founded on opinion , but on actual fact , which was witnessed by the present writer ; and such treatment is so partial and unfair , that no Unitarian who values his Christian freedom and dignity can submit to it . The next and more important

    reason is founded ^ oTT'thiTwelJ ™ knrown ^ fact , —that Unitarians have taken the praiseworthy trouble to translate the New Testament into an " improved version . " As this version is an improved one , it necessarily conveys a more accurate and correct view of the Gospel ; and as this Gospel contains the revealed will of so

    great a being as God himself , that pearl of great price , it must certainly be far more reverential to that Being to disseminate the most accurate translation of His holy will , than to distribute any other whatever that is less accurate . For what purpose have Unitarians , produced an improved translation , if that advantage

    is not to be communicated to the rest of the world ? For my part , I consider an improved version to be of very great consequence , and that if I did not endeavour to distribute that

    improvement in preference to all other translations , I should discover but a very imperfect sense of that gratitude which I owe to the Supreme Being for that favour . Another reason for not attending

    these meetings , ( if any other reason were necessary ) , is founded on the . fundamental principle of the Bible Society , viz ., the principle of distributing the Bible ' without note or comment . ' Now , does not the Unitarian seriously believe that some

    parts of the Bible consist of gross forgeries arid noxious interpolations' ? And that other parts require a different translation and consequent different interpretation ? And does he

    not believe , also , that the most serious errors— -errors that concern the character and honour of the Deity himself , —rest solely upon these for-

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    geries and false , translations of the Scriptures ? How important , then , must notes and comments be ) in the view of Unitarians above alKmher sects , whose object is , to reform the world from its religious corruptions , the accumulation of centuries !

    But , in this case , there must be a "division ™ of-the-partiesr-and-so ~ thereought to be . Union , in a good cause , is honourable ; but , in a bad One , is always disgraceful :. And why should not Unitarians unite among themselves to distribute only the best translation with the best notes , calculated to improve and enlighten the

    less-informed reader ; and then they will be consistent , and honourable , and useful . Truth and error will have fair play ; and , by their colli' siony the minds of men will be , as they ought to be , excited and improved to an indefinite extent . Geo . Fordham , Jun .

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    About thirty years ago , or perhaps a little more , there came from the press a work , entitled ' An Appeal to the Christian World , " by John ManselL © rierinallv a Baptist

    minister at Lambeth , and much persecuted by his quondam friends for his monotheistic sentiments . This work , illiterately penned and wretchedly printed , is , in my opinion , the best practical refutation of Trinitarianjsm

    ever offered to the public ; but , having parted with the copy of it which I possessed , I have , during the last seven years , in vain sought for a second . If any of your contributors would furnish me with a clue to an impression of this singular book , or give a sketch of the -history of the

    writer , I should esteem it a great personal favour if he would commum ' cate it tome ; and if this were done through your publication , it is a mark of respect for his memory to which poor Mansell must be amply entitled . HampUead . J . 0 .

    John Manseiil. :

    JOHN MANSEIiL . :

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1832, page 192, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1821/page/16/