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umfrm n it ifTrTiifhri ify ' with it * corrxijj&ons , - * sr £ s * imiiate it to those idle »»» debasing s ^ peratiuoas which have u $ prped < k > BQrmon over the understandiiK and the conscience . ; It is to be regretted that the intelligent traveller from whom the foregoing extracts are made , must be ranked
amongst these scoffers ; and still more is it to be lamented that the contempt which , in * the character of a Mussulman , he pours upon the absurdities and delusions © f the Christian world , should be so muck countenanced by facts . It is said that he ^ is a native of
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jfcfr- Belslumi s Animadversions on Dr . Magee . § 1 * , np ^ rlE Very Reverend Dean of Cork , Jl Or . Magee , in the third volume of his theological Oho lately published , in the sty . le and temper of which he
seenas to have excelled all his former exceUiogs , has selected as the text of Jiis discursive performance six passages from the Improved Version , all of them , as he excesses at , '' vitally affee ting some of the great doctrines of Chrtsfciauity ; " as " specimens of \ % atiortant tmaekmpoledged departures from pJewcom ^ s Version , not to be
accounted for fronn mere accident ; " and in dtfgct contravention of their express engagement with the public to make open acfkno ^ rledgment of every departure from the Primate * * text . And tWe y are further- aecused ( with a peculiarly good gfacefrom the learned Dean ) of *¦• ' employing lengthened observations
fit thentfics , fo * the very purpose of dige sting these t € &ts of all appearance of the unfeaning which would necessarily result from the Primate ' s rendering , deliberately and unacknowledgedly rejfcctSd' M altered by them . " The text ^ arid ' variations are produced at ; ^ fi ^^ P-J * 8 O ^ 48 T and the charge iJTafjfeeu wttHout &ny modification or rf iiHiouvfvif
uuauitvaiiv / u \ l have tHooefit it expeijTent to notice these cjbarffes . Decau ^ e . some candid and aensiJH ^ p ^ rson § t wJto duly appreciate ^^ ffiffl * S S !? ^ W ^ ar © Ejiiaents , have net ^ Km ^ p ^ e ^ pres 3 ej [ r ^ 4 »« Wise at , T * hat has appeacecf to them ,, l , pe gross l ^ atteflntton of ihe e ^ ors m ( th f tmfro ^^ Vevsio « ^ ffc jM ^*| x ^ 0 vjBf vvitllout
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Spain , and professed the religipn of the Crescent , ia ocd « r more eflfeejLually to compass the object a ( his traveU-r-an Intimate acquaintance with the Ititernal economy of the Mabommedan States . Qne has little difficulty in conceiving how a native of the Peninsula had been impelled to class Christianity in the number < jf those delusions which
have obtained or cemented their empire by the effusion of torrents of human blood , and at the expence of almost all that tends to advance the human species in liberal knowledge and the arts o £ civilized life .
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notice the important discrepances which the Very Reverend accuser has produced . Afas ! their honourable minds could have bo suspicion of the artifices which a professed polemic will condescend to use . They will read and wonder .
I . The first of those texts which the Very Reverend writer has selected a * an ^ Important" instance in which the editors aforesaid have ** detibtrately " and , as he elegantly expressed it /** ih * - acknoivledgedly rejected and altered the Primate ' s rendering , " is ^
Luke i . 3 S , thus translated by I > r * Newcome : ** Therefore tfea $ holy child also who shall be born of thee , shall be called The Son of God ; " The editor * substitute * " A : Son of God , " atnd they have omitted to acknowledge the va
riation . ' Upon this most importantxfistinction between A Son and 1 he Son , th £ Verv Reverend and Very Leart ^« d writer has llescariled tljirovigjbt thrrty-flve pag € 5 sof lengthened o& « twtr « m 5 in the notes , to shejv that neglecting to acknowledge 3 variation of such magnitude , " coiud not be accounted ^ for by mere accident , but mtist have been the result of Sofcne
sinister design on the part of thft editors . - ^ It is in vain to ursEe to 4 he Vety Re ^ verSqd accuser * in e ? tte « Maatrtwi o ^ thc 6 ff ^ nce , that the ; Primal ^ rf ^ # K > syWafe ) TtfE , biini ptin ted * v ! # i ^ li ^ i ;^ fras
anfhdicatioii fhat It % as * M fclu ^ Nrl irrfo * ongiirtai ; ank ! , tHAt&tore : ^ t the de-™ Sqn wq ^ ^ ni ^ caiM ^ tofYor-U ^ ji ^ jppear ^ in tl ) e j ^> ufse 6 f frieze ob ~ ^ rvaupns , t ^ at tfpj /^ &ti t&fafir NljNfl ^ . JHten of sound ^ nd « r $ t » n 4 into kn d
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1817, page 81, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2461/page/17/
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