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apparatus ; when we . consider , that the whole mass of literature , commencing With the London Polyglot , ami conti if tied t 6 Griasbach ' s Greek Testament Was collected subsequently to that period ; when wecoM . id-r that the . most important sources of intelligence for the interpretation ot the . otispn *\ scriptures * frere likewise opened after that period , w £ cannot poss » bly pretend that our yapthorlzcd version does jiot xequire amendmenl *"
- Reasoning in the same accurate and conclusive manner , he a-p' - ^ jeals . to a notorious fact ( 41 . ) : ¦ «« we know , that the English version * which had been authorized by -Qjieen Elizabeth , was exchanged ft r
g . 7 \ other version , authorized by Jamts Hie First . We have ther lore a precedent in our own church , for following the advice of Archbishop New com e , * and . again revising by authority our English version . *
We woulcl fain persuade ourselves that these intimations will Iiot be lost on our author ' s eccle-$ i& $ tical superiors . A revision and improvement of the received
ver-Stpit of the script-ufes , wouM be a jpost happy consequence of Dr 3 Vlar $ h ' s Lectures , and a valuable collateral effect of the discussions ^ arryrttg < m between bibfrsts and &ntj . bib lists . ., Although there is little , if any , novelty , yet thcr&is much strength llj this writer ' s observation ; on the ^ Cope of the EpUtles to the Kojnarrs and the G ^ ladans ( 4 ) :
* The question there decid « d w Very diffetemt from any question which noW agida ^ es the religious world . for no matrj tiPouId n < fw suppose , that the best Cttitivtians are they , who have heen Jews . Yet ¦ how seldom do we find an
interpreter of S ^ . Paul , who keeps in vi < w the subject and circumstanced of thdt controversy ^ on which St . Paul himself wars writing . Men iiiterprct ^ * Tq ' whose Historical View of the . EqgJ ^ hr BibXicaJl Translation ^ ^ lc Prouteox Marsn iiad referred in page $ 5 .
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his Epistles , as if / he wiere a writer of the present age : and passages , reJatine solely to ? He question , at issue between Jewish and Healh&n converts , ate so explained , as if ihe apostle had been sitting in judgment , to defcide between Calvin and Arminius ^
Ltt us be indulged in one more quotation : it regards a topic which has often occupied our thoughts and is deeply interesting to our feelings £ 56 , &c *) . **——« As soon as men have persuaded themselvs tha 1 in points of doctrine thef can / tot en \ they will ihink it an
imperious duty to prevent the growth of aU other opini-.-ns on a subject so important as religion * Should argument therefore fail , the importance of the end ill be supposed to justify the worst of means . Hut \ he intolerance , thus produced by an imaginary exemption from error , is far from being confined to the church
of Rome . The same mto erauce is | iio duced in every man who imagines that he interprets the scriptures under the especial guidance of tfte Holy Spirit . It makes no difference ^ in this respect , whether such especal guidance is gup . posed to be vouchsafed to a general cyun .
dl or to an individual in his private apartmenL The result in either cai&is the same . In either case , ihe persons who believe inemsclvts so gifted * will conclude , that they cannot err In either case they will deem it hqp'ious t © tolerate what the spirit , as they im& gine , has condemned . And hence we
may justly infer ; that the same mijuisitorial powt r , which has bten exercised by the chtfrch of Rome , would be exercised > y others , who set up similar pretensions , if the mt ans of employing that power were once at their command . "
This statement , we fear , is more than speculatively true : we dread any claim , whether avowed orimplird , to theological infallibili ^ j by whomever it be made .
We cannot acquiesce in Dr » M ' i ,, opiniou as to the expediency of contesbicHis of faith ( l 9 i ^' Histoiy and observation teach uj that ihey fail of answering a « y rational or worthy end : they v *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1813, page 676, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2433/page/52/
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