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    theological learning : he is fonder of appealing to creeds and articles , than of investigating the sense of Scripture ; and he

    substitutes calumnious insinuations or railing accusations for

    dispassionate argument . As though he had never read the title-page of the I . V . and the introduction to it , he charges the editors with an unjustifiable use of the name and labours of Archbishop Newcome , with a deliberate and systematic endeavour to mislead the public ,

    and with suffering the ardour of political feeling to mingle itself -with the warmth of religious zeal .

    From these unsupported assersertions , he proceeds to the question , so frequently canvassed , of the authenticity of the narratives in the gospels of Matthew and Luke , of the miraculous birth of Jesus . This fact , ho says , is not only related by these authors ,

    but is alluded to by other sacred writers ; in proof of which remark he cites , in the margin , Gal . iv . 4 . On this solitary passage he takes his stand : he appeals to no other ; and even this , when it is

    compared with the parallel texts adduced by the editors , will be found to fail him . He is pleased to affirm of the I . V . that cc its

    misrepresentations of construction are so palpable , that every school-boy learning the Greek language will detect them . " To be sure , Sir , nothing is easier than to make confident and sweeping declarations : —nothing , in some circumstances , more convenient to a critic . Aware of this advantage , Mr . U . has not neglected to avail himself of his experience . For if

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    the misrepresentations of construction in the work before us are so extremely palpable ^ would it have been a difficult matter to have gleaned a few of these notorious blunders ? He has collected none .

    Instead of fairly weighing the merits of the translation , as a trans . lation , he has satisfied himself , first , with stating arguments , which , whether good or bad , have been stated again and again , in behalf of the miraculous concep . tion ; and , then , with complain , ing of what all the world knows , that the tenets of the church of England are not the tenets of the editors !

    In this character of reviewer , Mr . U . is exceedingly familiar with the terms Socinianism and Sod * nian . For my own part , I am ignorant of the existence of a single Socinian through the united kingdom ^ and Mr . U . himself

    would have doubts upon this head , were he as intimately conversant with the state of theological opinion , as I take him to be with the history of his native country . Let him , and writers like . him follow the advice which has been siven

    them by Archdeacon Blackburne . let them be ' cautious upon whom they cast these imputations , " whom they brand with * ' the invidious names of Arian and Socinian : " let them renounce these practices , 4 C so common among the

    smallcraft of controversial writers 2 " let each of them put this question to his own consideration ^ * When the Papists call you , who are a a Protestant , a heretic , do they prove their point ?'

    It requires , Sir , much more ingenuity than Mr . U + possesses ^

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    178 Estimate of Strictures on the Improved Version . — Letter * L .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 178, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/18/