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    m ^ % as I learn fro m a certain ordination service ^ * admks Twpia tobe <; he language of the apostle . Ryi on what testimony does he admit it ? Why , Siry on the suggestion , of Aja \ learned friend , £ fr . Smith I His confession shall

    pe praised for its ingenuousness : it is creditable to his honesty as a xnan ; yet , it discloses a want of intelligence and of mental activity , whjcjy much aftrets his character fis a divine . Friufr disce qui

    docg $ . What am I to think of the theological and literary qualifications of one , who , sustaining " the responsible office of an interpreter oftlic revealed will-of God , "

    being further distinguished by the most honourable diploma ? in the faculty of divinity ,.. is' under the

    necessity of deriving this kind of information from the suggestion of a friend ? Is Dr . Col Iyer a stranger then to Giiesbach ' s of any critical edition of the N . T . ? Is he ign ( . M « . nt of the rules of

    biblical criiicism ^ and of the manner in which they are applied I Or is he sq situated , that , according , to the words of Michaelis , f he can see only with foreign eyes , and believe on the authority of others , but has no conviction

    himself r— " a conviction , without which no man should presume to preach the gospel , even to a country congregation * ' ? The E . R . also agrees with Griesbach , and with the editors

    of the I . V . in their reading of 1 Tim . iii . 16 . and in their reject ion of the famous clause in 1 John v . 7 . To the remarks of Primu tivus , % and others ,, in favour of the translation which the editors

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    hgbye given of the former passage ; iC He who &c / ' I can add no * thteg either in perspicuity or weight . In the judgment of the critic before me , Acts xx . 28 . is rescued , by the reading which the editors have adopted , from the charge of countenancing * the antiscriptural sense of passible Deity / ' Beyond all question , the

    Scriptures teach no such doctrine in any sense . AikL it is much moire ta the- purpo&e to observe , that this passage , ca ^ no longer be adduced with propriety in behalf of the supposed godhead o £ our Saviour . Of 1 Tim . iii . l 6 ~ it is

    not' correct to affirm , that , although the reading be changed , the meaning remains exactly the same . Agreeably to the translation vindicated by Primitivus , the description is unequivocally that of a human being ; and I cannot but wish that the reviewer would consult a discourse upon it from

    the discriminating pen of Lardner . ||; " The proofs ^ " says this writer , " of our Lord ' s true and proper godhead , remain unshaken : deduced from the prophetic descriptions of the Messiah ' s person in the Old Testament—from the

    ascription to him of the epithets , the attributes , the works , and the homage , which are peculiar to the Deity—and from those numerous and imnortant relations which

    he is affirmed in Scripture to sustain toward his holy and universal church , and toward each of its true members . " NoWj the insufficiency of such reasoning , its repugnance to the soundest principles of

    interpreta-* At Hammersmith . f Introd . to N . T . ( Marsh ' s Trantl . ) Yol . i . p . i 8 x » Mon , Rep . vol . hr * {] Works , vol . x . p . 48 ^

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    2 S 4 Estimate of Strictures on ikz Improved Version . —Letter 5 #

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1810, page 284, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2405/page/12/