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stroyed , righteousness and life can be only of a temporary duration ,
and a state of incorruptible virtue , and of immortal life and felicity could never be realized . Concurring in the sentiment expressed by one of your
correspondents , that the desire of the iinal happiness of all men , as the result of increasing wisdom and virtue is a disposilion congenial with the best affections of our
minds , and conceiving that infinite goodness will appear sufficiently awful when directed to the eradication of all sin , I rejoice to see its discussion in your Repository ; and trust , the spread of the sentiment will prove one of the most effectual means of
dissipating those hard and illiberal ideas , which too many zealous Christians are prone to entertain © f many of their fellow men , of vindicating the honour and glory of the Creator * and of establishing faith in future recompences on a rational and solid basis . Your ' s respectfully , T . P
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Rev .- C . Wellbdovttfs Bible . July 3 , 1814 . Sir , I observe , with great satisfaction , in your last N umber ( p . 356 —35 , 9 ) , the proposal for a new translation of the Bible from a
quarter where it is likely to be ably and faithfully executed . It is impossible not to wonder and regret that such a work has been so long unattemptedj while materials have been in the hands of modern biblical scholars which
were inaccessible to the learned translators of the common version . Oi that version I could not allow
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myself to speak with unkindness > considering its various merits and the multitudes in the several ages since it appeared , which it has instructed in the faith and hope of the gospel . Yet its defects cannot be disguised , arising front a text , the correctness of which was very partially ascertained , and oh some occasions from the trans *
lators' theological prejudices . The influence of such prejudices could scarcely be avoided by those who
with all their acknowledged learning and piety , were , and muse have felt themselves to have been , devoted to the support of the established creed of a national church . Nor tvas it favourable
to the exertion of mental independence that the royal head of the church made himself the prime mover in the concerns of that translation- The fitness of James for
such an office it would be weakness and not charity to admit , and the translators certainly disgraced themselves by prefixing to their work such a Dedication to such a High and Mighty Prince , whose moral character was worse than '
equivocal , and whose form of religion was convertible like his seat of government . But the want of a new translation of the scriptures has been long and fully admitted by biblical scholars , who were as b on & fide
Church of England men as the translators themselves . I need only mention Blackwall , ifc the second volume of his Sacred Classics ; published in 173 U In the preface , p . 21 , he has these remarks :
A new translation can give no offence to peopleof sound judgment and consideration ; because every body conversant ia these mattery
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412 Rev . C- WellbtUxecCs Bible .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page 412, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/28/
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