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services , and none of whom would require more than the reimbursement of their necessary expenses . I am , Sir , A COUNTRY UNITARIAN .
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Use of the Improved Version in Public Worship .
Sir , July 4 , 1811 . Having occasion to spend a Sunday lately in a country town , 1 enquired at my inn after the places of worship which were open . Several were enumerated , but mv informant omitted one
which I had heard of as Unitarian I inquired if there were not such a , cbapel v and wasanswered , Oh yes , Sir , there is , in — street ; but the people there are
npA Christian *'; ' they don ' t believe the Bible ; Mr . their
minister has made a Bible of his own for them . ' Wondering what this absurd report could mean , I went , as directed , to the chapel , and attended the morning service . I found a neat building and a few genteel worshippers . The devotional
services were conducted with great propriety , and the preacher delivered an elegant and interesting discourse . —1 was pleased and edified ; but I very soon
discovered the origin of the story which J had heard at the inn ; one of ibe Wessons of the day was read from the Improved Version ^ so named before beihg used by the preacher . I fell afterwards into meditation
upon opposition ^ popular prejudices , and cotild not help lament lng that we do not oftener endeayour to soften them doton than to "ritateianil al&rtn thfem . In the
presrenl case ; I could see no possible ad vantage in the Use of the New Testament adopted by this congregation , which could not
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have been obtained by . the u $ epo £ the common version , with such corrections and conaments , in the reading of it , as were really necessary , which the minister . was fully able to make .
It is not pretended that the errors of the English version by authority are very numerous at very material , or such as to obscure the Unitarian doctrine ; why then should we fly in th ^
face of the world , fill them with terrors , and put into the hands of our adversaries the reproach that we have made a new Bible , because we found the old one un .
tractable and irreconcilable to our creed ? I submit these hints-with deference to your Unitarian readers ^ and am , You r ' s VIATOR .
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On the Letters " Against Materialism " Sir , August 8 , 1811 . As a Christian materialist , I shall feel it ray duty to consider the arguments of your coires * pondent ( p . 407 ) c ' Against Alaterialism /' for the sake of my own conversion orconfirmation ;
without attempting to do justice , in a public discussion , to those arguments which bave produced my present conviction . Yet give me leave to submit to J . P . \ vheljhqr c some passages in his second , par ^ i - , graph are quite worthy « . o . t & §¦ : liberat sentiments ^ hich h ^ h f id
just expressed ; whether , iod ^ e ^ they are not more wortly ^ , of ^ mdoughty xhaiDpion , ' ^ who jmjtfetfcof the harness than pi , JPJ ^ , \ i \ m , himself , ' w )* o # utt < fi <* tifi $ * { & £ < W n tend for tmth rather thiin for victory . When your correspondent rcjpve
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 539, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/27/
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