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to show , that the editors have either directly or indirectlyy endeavoured to undermine the permanent obligation of baptism , or to invalidate the importance of the Lord ' s supper . But , with
Respect to all their renderings and notes , they are willing to await the decision of competent and impartial judges . Humbly conscious of the purity of their intentions , and relying upori the
soundness of their principles of translation and interpretation , they smile when they are accused of exhibiting gross and fallacious misrepresentations , and of attempting to lower the divine nature and detract from the attri
butes of the Redeemer . It is not by this sort of criticism that they can be confuted and silenced : they look upon it as an undesigned honour to the result of their
labours ; and they can neither be surprised nor concerned at meeting with abuse from men , who style the Treatise of " the learned Farmer" on Demoniacs , an ingenious indeed , but sophistical " work .
TheQuarterl yReviewer has animadverted on the I . V . in the style and spirit of Sylvanus Urban . Cant are pares ! It is sufficient for me to have attended to the
latter . The other of these critics has been noticed by one of the editors ^ who wields his controversial weapons > vith too much skill and prowess to stand in need of a supporter . In the Eclectic Review for Jan
1 & 09 , the third and fourth articles are placed together . These are , < the N . T . in an I . V . &c / and « a N . T . according to Luke , Paul , &c . published in conformity to the plan o £ the late Rev .
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Edward Evanson , A . M . * And the critic assumes , without shewing , or being able to shew , that these works ' * are closely allied by their avowed design , and by many features of their execution and
character / ' Yet , after bestowing a great number of pages on the former publication , he confesses that he xi had nearly forgotten " the notice , which he had promised to take of the New Covenant upon
Mr . Evanson ' s plan , for which he reserves one meagre paragraph . In truth , he does not , as he professed and promised , discuss the merits of it at all . Sir , it is easy to see , and impossible not to
condemn , hismotive in this consolidation of two volumes which have scarcely any other property in common , than that both are to be found in the index expurga * torius of the eclectic reviewers *
Such are the artifices of party criticism ! Ecclesiastical history brings us acquainted with three sets of phi * losophers , calling themselves eclec *
tic . " The electics , " of the first century , says Mosheim , u held Plato in the highest esteem , though , they made no scruple to join with his doctrines whatever 1 hey though t conformable to reason in the
tenets and opinions of the other philosophers . " In the second century , Ammonius Saccas was at the head of some eclectics : u he
maintained that the great princi - ples of all philosophical and reli - gious truth , were to be found equally in all sects , &c . " And the same admirable historian thus
describes a philosophical sect termed eclectics , irt the seventeenth century : ' * There was another sort of men > whom mediocrity of genius , or an indolent
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Estimate of Strictures on the Improved Version .- —Letter 2 . 179
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 179, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/19/
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