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    praesentius levamen , quam in te , Princeps Augustissime , cui et eandem , uti totidem verbis concepta et Regio Parenti tuo destinata erat , Dedicatidnem et opus ipsuin offerrem ; tune quod non nemo nune vivit , ad quern ilia spectet proprius quam ad Te ,

    Ogtimi Parentis Gloriosissimae Memoriae Primogenitum $ turn quod , boni ominis causa , tibi , Principi genito ut olim iu Regali Magnae Britanniae Throno sederes , hand alium JLibrum prius offerri convenit , quam JLibrum . Evangel ior urn .

    Quod dum facere audeo , Deum imrnortalem precorf ui vitam tibi largialur prosperam atque diuturnam , spes adeo quas de te concipimus maximas , relit esse ratas , ut , cum alas maturior

    accesserit , re zpsa demonstres , 7 e doctrini ( B Evangelii toto corde assentiri , et , quod Regia Dignitas reqydrit , ejusdem esse constantem Dejensorem atque Pro * tectorem . Jta vovet ex animo , &c . J . J . WETSTENIUS . " * It will be very remarkable if the new edition , which is I hear

    pre-* [ To his Royal Highness , George , Prince of Wales , eldest son of Frederic , Prince of Wales , and grandson of George II . King * of Great Britain , &c . I intended to have inscribed this work

    to your royal father , a design which , I trust , may escape the charge of vanity or presumption , while it Was hig-hly honourable to myself . But when the volume was just issuing- from the press , ( so fallacious

    are human purposes , ) news , most distressing * , arrived of the premature death of that best of Princes ; an event which alarmed and afflicted not only myself , but all good men , more deeply than I can

    express . When , however , my rnind became a little composed , I could find no solace of this severe affliction , like that of offering this work to youy most august Prince , with a Dedication , such as was designed for

    your royal Sire . To no one living * , can it , indeed , more properly belong- than to you , the heir of a father of most glorious memory . J ^ or , as a favourable ornen can any work be more suitably offered than the New Testament , to a Prince , born to fill , at a future day . the throne of Great Britain .

    This , then , I venture lo express . May the eternal God bestow upon you a long and prosperous life so that the great hopes you have already ex cited ^ may be amply fulfilled in the maturity of your

    paring , of Wetsteia , should be ded > cated to the same Prince , after a lapse of sixty-seven year 3 . JL

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    Clapton , Sir , October if , 1818 . OBSERVE that Dr . J , P . Smith , I in " The Scripture Testimony to the Messiah , " p . 184 , adopts Dr . Ken * iricotf s amended Version of 9 Sam . viL

    18 , 19 . In a note , p . 87 , the author has added a large extract from the * ' Remarks on the Old Testament , ' by that learned JBiblicist . In these remarks Dr . K . having Mentioned the Version of the passage given by King

    James ' s translators , adds , " thiswrong translation , in a part of Scripture so very interesting , has been artfully laid hold of , and expatiated upon , splendidly , by the Deistical Author of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian

    Religion /' Having seen reasons for not taking every thing upon trust , which Christian writers have alleged against real or reputed Deists , I looked into Col-Jins ' s " Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons , " published in 1724 , to form

    my own opinion of the art and the splendour here imputed to the author of that work . I could not , however , find one word upon the subject of the verses in Samuel , through the whole volume ; and it does not appear from Collins ' s Life , in Biog . SriU that there was a second edition . The

    censured passage may , perhaps , be found in the " Scheme of Literal Prophecy Considered , " which 1 never saw . But this is surely a very incorrect method of proposing the evidence to support a serious charge . I have no doubt that the author of " The

    Scripture Testimony , " has given a correct quotation ; and , perhaps , the circumstance of a posthumous publication ought to excuse Dr . Kennicott ' s omission of a proper reference to the author he censured . But another writer against Collins cannot be

    age * May you cordially assent to tfa evangelical doctrine ^ and as becomes the royal dignityy constantly afford it your defence and protection . Thus heartily prays . &c . J . J . WETSTEINEp . l

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    &H Charges against Collins *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 624, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/24/