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Of this statement I am inclined ta doubt the accuracy . I can * indeed * hardly suppose it possible for a , person to examine the Scriptures so fully as to embrace the U&Uariai * faith , in defiance of long-established creeds and .
recommended forin ularies , received hyl . tbe great majority of ; Christian s * without ; observing bhat no suchj pienary inspiration is claimed by tfae sacred writers , or coiisistent-with several of their declarations j not to addi the conduct of Divine ; Pitavidence : ini
suffering the Scriptures to come dowir to these later ages * , under the dfcad * - vantages common to all ancient / writingsj though counteracted ; by tlie high regard early paid to s those invar luable records , and the ; jealousy of rival sects , among whom they formed a : common authority *
The . other passage to . which I refer is in the Sequel * p * . 17 * where Mr . Yates says , ** Of the language and sentiments of Dr . Br Jest ley , contained in th £ passages , which Mr .. Wardlaw has * quoted , I strongly disapprove j and I have no doui > t , that my send * meats are those of -the ; great mass of Unitarians . "
Not having access to Mr . Ward * law ' s publication , I can only conjecture , as to the passages here censured , 1 need not say , on the part of Mr * Yates , wi th the highest respect to Dr * Priestley ' s memory , and from a motive whieh lie would have been among the
first to approve * As : many of your readers may be in a situation like myself , the able Vindicator ' may probably be disposed to satisfy an inquiry , which I can assure him i » prompted by a better motive than cuxiosity . B . JL . G ,
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Sir , Marvk £ <* , 1 S 38 . 1 OBSERVE in the [ ' && } Annual Q Register for 1785 ; VI . ^ 76 , the notice of a work * eiititl / ed The Restitution of all Things , ^ tiy Mir . BJroWu ; lat ^ Missionary iii > tSeoi'gia : ; * It is described ai 4 < att ing ' c'rtlcJusan ^ iiW erai
essay , and worthy , of attetitive p ^ riisal . ** This author * de ^ ctlbefc , a > the \ end of th ^ fiivine dispeirsatibti ^ " the ; entire extirpation of eVil , dispyd ' e ^ aiiji | winery j % o [ - tht rb&tprktioh 6 t )^ e ^ et ptSection arid ftliintV . tfiirouglr all ti % ; r * % m itf m ? tAs ^ i % * sf * hGrifc of ybiit re ^ td ^ W ttwy , pferftbps /
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Brown ' s Restoration ofa& 7 ![ Mng& <* rM the Vatican MS . 381
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& % n $ . J * ma 15 * 1 i 81 ^ L / HAD your Correspondent Ofe » scurus , [ p . aan ] taken the tarwi ble to read with afctention the note at the foot of Grie&bach ' s jjage ^ he would have seen that , Professor Birch expressly retracta iiie refecenre which he had made to the Vatican
naannseript , and , consequently , tl > al the Editors of the Improved Version a * & not under an error , wlian they assert with Griesbach , that in the cele * bnated passage , Adks xx . 28 ^ " the received text reads God upon the authority of no manuscript of note or vniue " .
B ; P . S * Obscurua very oddly refers to the : note above alluded , to , as ** stating Birchts grounds for his asserting the Vatican reading to be ® € * f , " witerefttt
it really states his reasons for ietrwcfr hvg ; his assertion . Let the rea < fet judge from the wards of the noteitselft vizi Se 8 io praefatione ad Varias Lec > tiones ad textum Apocalypseos cbli lectas , p . xxxix . Birchius , u Gum
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pro certo pronunciareuon au . sim , quid ; in codice nostro scriptum reperiatur . Vix tamea dubitare licet , si hie ( lisec ?) in codice nostro obtinuisset varietal lectioais , hanc intentionem meam ftigisse , cum locum huiic
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 381, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/37/
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