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nonconformists—it was in fact giving them an ascendancy—it was to surrentier the badge of a churchman , while no correspond . ing surrender was made by the dissidents . This declaration , nevertheless , could not be substantiated . The advocates of the
Society assured him that the sacrifice was reciprocal ; that if the churchman waves ,, so Jar as he is a member of this association , the circulation of the Liturgy , the nonconformist waves , for the same reason , and in the same connexion , the circulation of his favourite
catechisms ; that men are not precluded from distributing the prayerbook in other channels ; and that since the establishment of the Bible Society , the distribution of it has considerably increased . To the force of these reasonings Dr . Marsh has been insensible : nor
has even Mr . Vansittart , whose plainness and energy of argument in this discussion are happily com . t > ined with an engaging mildness of temper , succeeded in the attempt to convince him that his attack on the Bible Institution , is little consistent with the principles of
Protestants * The learned Professor has taken exception to some of its statements , or rather perhaps the statements of certain of its friends : C 6 Its utility , " says he , " has not been sa conspicuous as you represent it
in procuring translations of the Scriptiires to be executed into foreign languages . * Now , we believe the truth to be , that a few
persons have advanced inadvertent and exaggerated assertions on this part of the subject . Still , the labours of this society abroad ^ as ' well as in our own country , have been widely beneficial : and
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we are of opinion that the Review of Dr . Marsh ' s Inquiry ^ SfC . in one of the recent numbers of the Christian Observer y will , on the whole , satisfy the reader that this objection is less formidable in reality than in appearance .
We shall next refer to an Anti . biblist , for whom , however we now differ from him , we feel great respect . In Dr . Maltby ' s judgment , to circulate the zoJiole of
the Bible , is unnecessary and useless—to circulate any part of it without explanatory nates is inexpedient . These propositions he has illustrated in a manner wbich
exhibits his own acquaintance with scriptural criticism , and which deserves the regard of all ministers of religion ; yet we think , and have endeavoured to shew , that his observations , valuable as
many of them are in themselves , have no strict relation to the point at is , sue , and that the text of the Bible must be put into tfce hands of the people , before they can possess any curiosity to know on what principles they should interpret its contents . *
" The Margaret Professor of Divinity in Cambridge , " is , after all , the grand champion of the antibiblists : nor has he yet retired from the field , nor is he likely to retire from it , while one opponent remains with whom he is not a-
shamed of combating ^ H * 9 eminent learning and abilities , ( for eminent they are , notwithstanding they have been exerted with less
advantage in this controversy than on some other occasions ) have be # n long known to our readers-The name of Mr . Gandolphy , too , does not now appear for the first _ _ ^ ^ ^ . ^ fca ^^^^^ W^—* ¦
— __ _ r-- ^ 1 - - - ' — ¦ ¦ — w ¦ - —'" ~~ ' ? ' Vol . VII ; 704— 7 tX .
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330 Review . —Gandolphy * s Second Letter to Dr . Marsh .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 330, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/46/
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