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These Dissertations , composed and first-delivered as before-mentioned , are in general the result of an impartial and critfcal
investigation of the sense of Scripture , of much study , research , and app lication , joined with extensive reading of the best Unitarian writers in Latin and English .
Some advantages I have no . doubt derived from the perusal of every author of merit and reputation , but not so as to render a particular acknowledgment necessary . Socinus and the Polish
Unitarians , with Hugo Grotius , and the English Unitarian writers of the seventeenth century , have been useful assistants in some places , I have profited by the Paraphrase of Le Clerc and the Comments of Abouzait , in
composing my improved translation and paraphrase on the Introduction to John ' s Gospel . Both these I published at full length in my Discourses on the Divine Unity *; but I thought it would have a
better effect in the present work to publish an entire new para * phrase " Qf my own 5 in the ' composition of which I laboured much to express with fidelity the true sense of the Evangelist , and to set his sublime conceptions in
» ntliat city in the year 1791 , by means of tlie late worthy Mr . James Pi ' irves , and was much pleased with his conversation . He afterwards went to Glasgow , and in contiexioii with Mr . Palmor was useful in forwarding the progress of Unitarianis * n itt that citjr . He was an . edifying and
agreeable preacher , and possessed talents for argumentation and debate . I vmted his congregation at Glasgow in December 1792 , and delivered some discourses to them ; which visit , with other Previous circumstances , laid the foundation of my removal to that city afterw * r < k SdJEdiC ' p : 206 to 211 .
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a brilliant and conspicuous point of view . I have adopted some valuable thoughts from different writers in the Theological Repository , and
some from my late dear friend Mr . Palmer , before mentioned . I have derived some precious hints from the gfeat Lardner , delivered with much simplicity
in his artless but touching man . ner , which I have endeavoured to enlarge upon and improve to advantage . I acknowledge my * self indebted to the venerable
Mr . Liridsey ( whose numerous and valuable writings on the subject of these Dissertations I have often read with pleasure and im « provement ) for some sentiments ^ expressions , and brief quotations . To the late Rev . Dr . Priestley I atn indebted for some occasional
thoughts of great moment . With respect to the Scriptural quotations in these Dissertations , which I have collected and ar * ranged with great care , on which I rest their credit and authority , and which are in themselves of
inestimable value , I may truly say with strict propriety , in the elevated language of the . Latin poet , that , I have erected a monument tnord
lasting than brass , and higher than the regal elevation of the Egyptian pyramids , which neither consuming rain * nor violent < wind t nor an iti
numerable series of years and lapse " of ages can destroy : but which < will continue to exist in vigour ' , and exhibit an uniform and undecayed frontf for e * ver * .
* Exegi monumenlurn cere perenniusf Regaltque situ pyramidum altius : Quod non imber tdax nonAquilo impotews Possit diruert % ant innumerabilis Annorum . series , et fitga tempoYum *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 195, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/3/
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