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    G&dd 'feet an account of these extraonlinafy eve&ts have been first publicly preached , a « d afterwards-comlilitted to Writing-, the knowledge of them if it had reached us at aH , could

    only have been cjwiveyed on the frail , uncertain authority of oral tradition , casualty floating down the stream of time from generation to generation . in respect even of that great event , momentous in its consequences beyond aB others , the resurrection of

    Chris * , although the very same care had feeen taken in the arrangements of divine providence which is now so apparent , and although the people of that ddy might therefore have been equally convinced of fte reality , yet had ttot the relation been

    cireumstantiatty committed to writing by eyewitttessgs , we of this distant age should not oaly have received the account , loa&ed With and obscured by many human inventions , but we should have

    wanted all those various proofs , arising ^ om minute circumstances incideft tally noticed , with which it now ^ boWn ^ s / and on which the firm con - viction of its trail ! , in respect of us , so essentially depends .

    In respect of the fifth and last mentioned line trf demarcation , namely the unspeakable privilege of being capable of forming some small conception of the adorable and ever-blessed God 5 of confiding in his goodness , and of rendering him , however imperfectly , the * humble ascription of adoration and praise , there is no need to prove that without an especial revelafibn these most desirable privileges , important beyond all others , woiild not have been obtained . \

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    &r . Carpenter to Mr . Frehd , Dr . Lloy d * £ •* . St

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    and the Last Thoughts ought , in justice to the learned Commentator , to be in the hands of every one who possesses his commentary on the New Testament , because they furnish his own corrections of his work . It was

    also stated that a gentleman , who seemed impressed with the importance of the object , offered a loan of 100 / . towards the accomplishment of it , if others could be found to unite with him .

    Your correspondent A . Z . in the number for September , ( x . 549 , ) inquires for particulars respecting my plan , and my opinion as to the necessary funds . The subject has often been in my thoughts , but I have seldom had time to commit my ideas to

    paper . I think the simplest way would be for a few individuals to raise among them , by way of loan , from $ 6 oZ . to * 300 / ., and be joint proprietors of the editions re published , which ( if theselection of books were made with

    due caution , ) would always be a good security for the money advanced . The books should be printed neatly , but as cheap as possible \ and the price should be regulated by itfte probafcfe time of sale , the cost of advertising , &c . For instance ^ if the expenses of

    reprinting any book be 75 ? . for 1000 copies , in 8 vo . { allow £ 5 / . for advertising at different periods of the sale , and consider it as' employed at once for the purpose . Then suppose the impression to Bell completely in eight years ; and allow interest for five , ( asr small sums on their return could not

    easily be made profitable : ) the whole return , to remunerate the propietors , should be 125 if . Now for booksellers * profit and the publisher ' s commission on the selling price , we must allow 43 per cent on this cost price . The price to the public would therefore be about 3 s . 8 d . in quires , or say 4 s . 6 d . in extra boards . I should

    think it probable that for Whit by ' s Last Thoughts encouragement might be expected from the societies . The experiment might be made , in the first instance , with the Last

    Thoughts , where I should suppose there < : an be but little risk , and whi « h , if I had any capita . ! to spare , I would myself immediately reprint , upon the above mentfQiied system of e&tim ^* ing the priqe . If any friend to frm ¦ ,, y *

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    Exeter , Jan . 8 , 1816 . Sir , Fl your number forvFuly last , ( x . 459 ;) it was proposed to raise a ftind in" or 4 er to defray the expense of repuWishkig some important works , wjii ^ i ; though not perhaps directly Unitarian , might have great efficacy in Weakteriijfrgthe ' influence of religious

    w % otry , ^ an 4 preparing for the di « u-«« n ctf our principles : and reference wai particularly made to Bishop Taylon ^ W Liberty ofN Prophesying , and W | gHtey ? s > lLast rf Thoughts , with his fouii ^ SdmioiiB , published with them . The ^ i ^^ d particularly the latter , are rtmW *> ift ^^ aible to the public :

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1816, page 33, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2448/page/33/