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assured that some gross error has been introduced into the text . For this reason , the greatest possible diligence should be exerted , by ffie collectors of MSS » to restore the original text . But all errors of this sort that can be enumerated are of little consequence ,, as they cannot affect the several revelations , nor render the great salvation the less important . The purest morals are every where recommended to us , and are confirmed by the most substantial vidence .
But , here , it will be asked—may there not be besides an in-f lermixture of some human inventions foisted into the sacred Code ? This being answered in the affirmative will aiford no ground for Impeaching either the Mosaic or the Christian dispensation . The , grand leading doctrines are still the same ; and whatever is not in perfect harmony with these may safely be rejected . Rut , in this . ease , we are not to act from the impulse of our passions , iLdtto
decide hastily , but to examine fully every particular before we be finally , determined . As the Jews , however , were likely to parallel some of , their own practices with the divine laws , and in theic corrupt state , to presume that these practices were allowable in them as a peculiar people ,, some doubts may arise , whether the lJivi » e Being exculpated
the master who murdered his slave , because he zvas his money ^ whether ke directed the master , when a slave was willing to continue with him after the expiration of his servitude , to bore his ear through and fasten kim to the door-post , and make liitn his servant for ever , and whether he permitted some customs which were permitted with respect to female captives taken in war . Even in the New Testament we have some
soanifest interpolations , such as 1 John v . 7 . Besides , the Jews are well known to have corrupted some passages of their scriptures relating to the Messiah * When we discover £ ny discrepancy , then , hv the New Testament , with respect to those passages vfhich are quoted from the Old , we may talie it for granted , I think , that in the New Testament the original readings are communicated to us . 1 might also mention the difficulties arising to the English reader from wrou ^ translotions . I shall notice only one passage , where it is said , that Elis '
sous would not hearken to him because it pleased the Lord to slay them . Instead of the word because , let us read wherefore as we ought io do , liow very different the doctrine we are taught ! and how devoutly therefore is it to be wished , that we could have a correct translation of £ hc whole J . ible ! But , in our present most corrupt versions , the well disposed havestil ! so perfect a rule of life , that he who runs may read
it . Irk the la > v and the prophets , and in Jesus Christ and his , apostles , we have everything that ' is profitable for doctrine , for reproof , f <> r correction , lor instruction hi righteousness , that the" man . of God may be perfect , thoroughly furnished in all good , works . Our wlio ' ednty is to lav ^ Go d , and keep his commandments , or todq ¦ justly « , to love ircercy , and walk lunably with our God , and the prize , that is set before u $ is eternal life .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1807, page 246, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2380/page/22/
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