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yprAs give hvro all the satisfaction in m power on baUl these points . 1 have certainly not abandoned the History to wJaicn ^ OAir Corres pondent jefers . Eveiy since the first public notice was given of my design , my attention * W beeii directed to the
subject ; and £ have been engaged , as opportunity offered , in searching after andcollecting materials for Its execution . ^ variety of ci rcumstances , which need not be here detailed , and , above all , a severe and long protracted bodily indisposition , have hitherto put it out of my power to digest and arrange the multiform mass of materials which I have succeeded in
bringing together . I can , however , assure your Co-respondent , that k is my fixed purpose , if Providence vouchsafe me health , to proceed with the work y and to devote to it as large a portion of time as I can spare , after the imperative demands of my pTO-( essional and . other avocations have been answered .
It affords roe satisfaction to be able to inform your correspondent , that the Translation of the Racovian Catechism after whicji he inquires , is in such a state of forwardness , tr ^ at by the time this paper meets his eye , it wijl , most probably , be in the hands of the printer : and unless same unforeseen
accident occur to interrupt its progress through the press , I have nc > doubt of . jts being before the public , by the month of . December , ; ln my original announcement of this wark I stated my intention to be , to make the translation from tl > e most recent authorised edition ; but , at the same time , to collate the text with
thatof the preceding editions , in order to mark the alterations which had , pt ^ cessive periods been made , an 4 *«• . exhibit the chsmges which had taken place in the . opinions of the Polish Un ^ i ta x \ ans . I liare deemed i t aclv » seaty <» ,, however , oil re-consideration , t ( > abandon jtJb is * part of / ny dssign £ > n , < ynmute compari son of the sevejat , cWona ; and I ' believe X am in poss ^ e ^ - ^ ? vm of every ome $ hat was published 1 ! f ^"> l Observed that , no materia iter ation , in r ^ eci to any matter o ¦ el » oi ^ b $ jef , ijfad been - introduced b learned ecjfitSr ^ i $ t th ose which v ^ M- $ riiiida ;> -Tfl | ie , ^ ef dirf ^ ! W ^ o » si 3 t of e ^ lanatory add itidii ^/ JS ^^ Srfd ^ p * a # pearei ) **> be oV ; J ^ W s ^ t ^ ol msufec i ^ ntly ^ p lairih . i and of some considerable improve-
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ments in the language and style of th ^ original text . _ , Instead of the marginal notes with which such a collation would have disfigured andburthened the pages of the Translation , without answerin g any purpose of utility , I shall
substitute some short remarks in those parts of the v ^ ork that relate to points of doctrine , respecting' ' which modern Unitarians diner in opinion from the authors of this formulary . By this method of annotation , the reader will
be furnished with a comparative view of the two systems ; that is , of Unita * riaqism as it is now generally professed , and of Unitarian ism as it was held by those great and venerable men , who formed so brilliant a constellation in
Poland at the era of the reformation , and to whom , under Providence , the cause of divine truth is so signally indebted . This course was thougnt to be in some measure necessary , in order to guard those tversons , who hare yet to learn what Unitarian ism is , against attributing ^ to its professors * in the present day opinions which have long
been abandoned , in this , part of the world at least , as unwarranted by the Scriptures . A few other notes will be occasionally introduced , containing references to approved modern writers upon some of the topics discussed in the Catechism ; and furnishing notice * of additional authorities for particular emendations of the Greek text of the
New Testament , which have been supplied , since the publication even of-the last edition ot this work , by th £ laborious researches of Griesbach and others , and the present highly improved state of Biblical criticism and Biblical knowledge . These are to be considered as supplementary to the learned and curious notes which were published by , the last editor * of the . Catechism , * anf | j which will x be given wit } i the . ' TwtyislaUjon . I shall only observe farther , for i ^ e infojripa- * , tic > n of your Gorrespondent * that there
wilt be ; pTefijced to th $ work , a ^ riicf Sketch i of the ? tfl&Qry , pf JUnit&viaLiw&m on the Contjnent ! , ffttyfty '» ts . first appearance mi . Poland ^ - un jti 4 . thp final expulsion qt u > pj ? ofe # ^ prs % » tha ); cqi ^ ntryMn the-year ^ 6 (|^ ' \ jfML will exhibit a faint om ^ ne ojf ^ what the larger Histoi ^ ( i ^ i ^ ided to com prize . 'it £ tii f ft Jirtf * ,.-.. i $ gmUpi&E $ ¦ ' \
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Unitarianis-nty and Translation qf ike Racovian Cdiechisrti . 4 M \
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1816, page 455, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2455/page/19/
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