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Co rrttted Edition of Melmoth ' s Importance of a Religious Life . Sir , " The following paper , being a reply to a severe but unfounded attack on the venerable editor of
the corrected edition of Mr . Mel . moth's Great Importance of a Religious Life , having been refused admission into the publication in which the attack was made , the author is desirous of recommend .
ing for insertion in your respectable Miscellany , that such of your readers as are inclined may see the whole of the controversy . The former papers may be found in the Gent . Mag . for last year , pp . 103 ,
327 , 610 . I am , &c . V . P . Ife the Editor of tftt Gentleman ' s Magazine . August 18 , 1813 . €€ * ¦¦ , First cast out the beam out of thine own eye ; and then siialt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother ' s eye . ' * Matt . vn . 5 .
Mr . Urban , It is far less difficult to stigma , tize our opponents as delinquents , and to pronounce their cause indefensible , dishonourable and ini » quitous 9 than to vindicate the mo * tives of a wanton and petulant
attack . The manner in which your pretended Plain Dealer has replied to my former letter , does in no respect dispose me to retract any One of the epithets , which his unwarrantable conduct , in the first
instance , led me to adopt . The question , which he so angrily alludes to , involves no intricacy , and applies to the whole of his desultory censures , which I en deavoured to concentrate for the
pUf ^ oife of giving them a brief reply liut 1 ahall not attempt to vie Witt him in the language of
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personal abuse ; although I must regard his proceeding as equally absurd and illiberal , his bigotry and prejudices as far tod deeply rooted to admit the possibility of a reform .
However reluctant I may fefel to intrude a second time upon your readers ^ I shall not be deterred by mere sophistry and declamation from vindicating so liberal & measure as the Ikte revision df
Me / moth ' s Great Importance 6 f a Religious Life . For 1 regard the Christian world as much indebted to the reviser , for introducing such serious exhortations to a life of practical piety , to a
class of readers , who must have been deterred by a few doctrinal absurdities from perusing the original work * And I deny that , af « ter the candid avowal in the
preface , there is any real ground of objection to their omission ; since no sort of concealment or deception has been thereby practised on the public . To prepare this use * ful little work for Christians of
every denomination at once evinces a mind free from sectarian preju «* dice , and in strict unison with the diffusive benevolence « f the gospel * If , however , to assist in promoting the true interest of religion by such judicious
alterations be dishonourable and iniquim tous ; if openly to avow the omission of disputed doctrines be clandestine ; and to offer to the public a treatise carefully purged of every passage which could justly give offence be stealth and stratagem * I must confess myself
a stranger to my native tongue . Whilst I pretend not to divirte the actuating motives of your corrfcapondent's mind , I cartnot hel ^> Vegarding his principles as Very far
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Mclmoth ' s Importanceof a Religious Life . 4 ( Jf
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 467, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/19/
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