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came the difficulty ; both versions have tbeir respective annotations , and some in the Rhemish version are offensive to the Protestant Society , which has expressed its opinion of them in the following
resolution , namely , cc that many of the notes attached to the Roman Catholic version are not only hostiie to Protestant principles , but subversi ve of all Protestant churches / ' Hence co-operation between
the two boards becomes impossible : % Hit besides it could never have taken place , as the Roman Catholics do not allow of an indiscriminate circulation of the Bible , The Protestant Society has , how . ever formed a Committee to consider the expediency of carrying
into effect the original proposal to reprint the Rbemish version of the scripture , without notes , and to enquire particularly into the circulation of the Rhemish version in its
present state , among the poor . The proposition of printing the Rhe « nish version , without note or comment , shews the necessity of printing the Protestant version in the Carrie manner ; and the
proceedings of this new Society promise ample matter for reflection . It has corresponded with several eminent gentlemen of the Romish persuasion ; and as it is not likely to be successful there , its efforts
might , with advantage be directed to tfae Unitarians , to whom the Bible , with whatever notes and comments they pkase to add to It } will be very aiceptabfe *
The above was collected * from the Protestant account of this tyusiW&s , but the Board of Roman Catholics , in a meeting summoned
to take into cotiMcferutioiv the £ ha * gts . faid aga nst their d * no . jtninktioa , 'dfcsdrd ' tti * public iWat * h& ^ Al es ^ utartoh , made by the
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Protestant Society , is founded on total misconception ^ for it never was intended to print the Bible with these notes , described to be so offensive to Protestants . They repeat their resolution of the gene , ral board , of the 9 th of last Feb *
ruary , which < c decidedly disapproves of every publication , either illiberal in language or uncharitable in substance , injurious to the character , or offensive to the just feelings of any of our Christiaa brethren , with all whom the Roman Catholics of England sin *
cerely wish to preserve harmony and mutual good will , in the spirit of Christian charity . " Such a re * solution as this ought to have satisfied the Protestant Society , at least unless | they had proof s of which there is no appearance , that the Catholics had acted in a different
manner from this resolution . Let each denomination maintain its cause with all the zeal it pleases ; but of late years , hi point of good manners , the Catholics seem to have bad the advantage over the Protestants .
In the view oB this agitation of the Christian world , we must not overlook a circumstance in which we may be supposed to be peculiarly concerned . This is the repeal of the Act which inflicts penalties on persons who disbelieve
the Trinity . A Bill to this purpose is in > Parliament , and met with no opposition on its introduction into the House * and surely the believers of the Trinity ,, , if there are any really so in this kingdom 5
cannot , after the experience of ihe last hundred years , desire the continuance of an act ^ which we believe has not in aay one instance in flu fed any pain ot penally : tttfeo attempt * , or rather one attempi fuid one threat , * keym been
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 352, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/68/
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