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    religious, literary; and politico, religious intelligence.

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    Religious, Literary; And Politico, Religious Intelligence.

    religious , literary ; and politico , religious intelligence .

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    XELIGIOUS . UNITARIAN SOCIETY . —The Second Report of the Committee of the Unitarian Society , appointed to consider of the best means of obtaining and publishing an Improved Version of the New Testament : «—

    cc This Committee have the satisfaction to report , that as far as their inquiries and their means of information have extended , the plan which the Unitarian Society have proposed of publishing an Improved Translation of the

    New Testament , meets "with universal approbation : and the method which the Society have recommended , of taking the late Archbishop Newcome ' s excellent Version as the basis of their own , with no other variations than such as

    may appear to be necessary , has been very generally approved , as being most practicable , and at the same time the least liable to cavil and objection . —The Committee acknowledge with gratitude ,

    that they have received many valuable communications and hints from persons of great learning and judgment , who are desirous of promoting ; the object of the undertaking , and they trust that they shall be furnished with further

    communications of a similar kind , from the same , or other quarters , in the progress of the work . — Having thus digested the plan upon which the work is to proceed , the Committee are solicitous that it may be carried into effect without delay . To this end they beg leave to recommend , that a Subscription be forthwith set on foot , to raise the sum . which may be necessary for printing a large Edition of

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    46 Religious Intelligence *

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    the Improved Version ; and that the Sub * scribcrs be requested to pay the money at the time of subscription , that the Society may be able to treat with the persons whom they may employ upon the best

    terms and that as soon as a sum fixed by the Society shall be paid into the Treasurer ' s hands , the work shall be immediately sent to the press . —Y ® ur Committee further recommend , that a number , not less than live thousand

    copies of the Improved Version , should be printed ; four thousand upon a royal duodecimo , and one thousand of an octavo size . —The expense of the undertaking , to the best of their judgment , will amount to a sum not less than seven hundred pounds . —As the demand for the New Testament , and the charges attending it , will probably be more than for all the other books of the

    Society taken together , your Committee beg- leave to recommend that a separate fund and a separate account be kept for the purpose of publishing and distributing the Improved Version . —And they also recommend , that , in the first instance , one hundred pounds of the funds of the Unitarian Society for the current year be appropriated for this purpose , in

    preference to all other claims , after the just debts and the necessary expences of the Society are discharged . —They further recommend , that means should be immediately adopted for circulating the Society ' s Proposals , and that as soon as three hundred pounds shall have been paid into their Treasurer ' s hands , the work shall be sent to the press . —And the Committee likewise recommend

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    der itself would soon be extinguished in the community . The friends with whom he appears to have lived on terms of the closest intimacy , beyond those of his own personal connexions , were the late Rev . Dr . Wren , of Portsmouth , justly celebrated for his benevolent attention to the wants of the American prisoners during the colonial Avar ; the Rev . Mr . Renaud , rector of Havant , a most worthy and exemplary clergyman , with whom during the whole period of his residing at Havant , he lived on the footing of a brother , rather than of any other character ; the Rev . Dr . Hussey , a highly celebrated member and ornament of the Roman

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    Catholic church , and the most popular preacher of his day ; and the Rev . Dr . Toulmin , who has lately removed from Taunton to Birmingham . In his literary acquisitions , he was well acquainted with the French and the Hebrew languages , which last he always read with the points , and deeply and critically skilled in the Latin and Greek tongues . His printed productions never amounted to more than a few single sermons , preached on particular occasions . The vanity or ambition of becoming an author , having always yielded to the desire of being useful in a more retired , but , perhaps more important capacity . F .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1807, page 46, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2376/page/46/