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good can inferior men , admitted indeed to their company , but not worthy to loose the latchet of their shoes , what good can such men hope to do ? Take away from a credulous enthusiast all but the rational , and you deprive him of all the little religion which he
professes to have , and you reduce him to despair , in fact for being freed from fraud , in appearance for depriving him of what all the world applaud , and of that for which only he is applauded . Rational religion , Sir , ever was and ever will be the dread of
those who raise for themselves riches and reputation out of the doctrine of mystery , and of course insurmountable obstacles will be raised against it . Such reflections discourage many men , and must dismay all dependent men , otherwise men who fear God and love
mankind , and objects more of pity than of blame . No , I do not think , in general , that the literati want conviction , but they want power to carry their convictions into actions . They have been educated in luxury , they
canoot consent to be frugal and poor , they have been ranked with the wise and the wealthy , they cannot brook neglect and contempt . Great was the wisdom of him who said , If any man will be my disciple , &c . L . uke xiv .
25—33 . In brief , Sir , I am now engaged in a work soon to be published , entitled , ** A History of Baptism , " which takes up all my time ; and of the immediate agency of the Deity , in my small circle , 1 have said so much and so often what
I think , that I do not feel any inclination to say more . Such a plan as you are pleased to sketch , would undoubtedly be a most useful work to serious men , but it would be a work of labour ,
for it would go to cut up by the roots that most fatal of all mistakes , the forming of systems by detached passages , which is the fort of the popular doctrine of divine agency .
Sir , I have written till I feel the inconvenience of writing in the dark , for I have not the most distant guess of the person to whom I write ; but a JbNow-christian , as he is pleased to style himself , will readily pass by all improprieties , and believe this scrap not to offend , bat to assure him that I 4 un hisnutet obedient , humble servant , ROBERT ROBINSON .
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646 Letter from the late Francis Webb , Esq . on the Improved Version .
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HI . From the late Francis Webb , Esq . * on the Improved Version ; communicated by Mr . Seaward . Sir , Litton ^ Oct . 1817 . t 11 HE following letter from the late JL . Francis Webb , Esq ., was occasioned by some interesting conversation which took place at hi » residence ,
at JLytchet Cottage , near Poole . The subject was the Improved Version of the New Testament , which was generally and highly approved of by him , yet he was of opinion , the passage
more particularly in question , Colossians , i . 19 > vvas by no means improved by the present translation . The re marks , at any rate , serve to shew what precision , pathos and energy of mind this venerable and learned author
possessed , even to the age of nearl y eighty years . By giving them a place in your valuable Repository , you wifl , perhaps , gratify many other friends and admirers of that great and emiuent character , besides
R . SEAWARD . Dear Sir , Since I had the pleasure of seeing you , I have turned to Mr . Peice ' s Paraphrase , and find that the authors of the New Version have adopted his translation of the verse in question , in which the learned Castellio is
followed ; who thus renders it : " Quomam per eum visum est Patri omueni uiiiversitatem inhabitare . " In support of this translation , he remarks , " that whenever an infinitive verb is , in the New Testament , joined with fiJio *^ , it always denotes the action of him who is spoken of as pleased . " Mr . P . vindicates and illustrates this
translation by several other parallel and appropriate texts . But allowing this to be the true rendering and meaning of the place j yet these words of the learned commentator , adopted in the Mew Version , appear to me objectionable ; since , without his
explanation , common and unlearned readers , I am persuaded , would be apt to . be confounded or misled . But with all imaginable deference and respect to such learned authorities , I am inclined to acquiesce in our common version : and for the following reasons . ? For an account of tbis g-pntlenmn , c Mon . Repo * . X . 526 XI . 71 , 189—W 380 , 281 , 331 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1817, page 646, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2470/page/6/
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