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so easily vindicated , ; I mean Dr . Bentley , who , in his celebrated Remarks , has shewn , at least on one occasion , that the use of pious frauds is not unknown to the modern fathers of the Church . In the " Discourse of
Freethinking , " 1713 , p . 90 , now before me * a passage of Victor is quoted from Dr . Mill ' s Prolegomena . Of this , Collius gives the original and the following translation , excepting two words of disputed meaning , which he leaves just as he found them :
"In the Consulship of Messala , at the command of the Emperor Anastasius , the Holy Gospels , as written Idiotis Evangelistisf are corrected and amended . " Dr . Bentley ( Remarks , Ed . 8 , p . 112 ) , having quoted the original passage , gives the following , as " our author ' s faithful translation : "
"In the Consulship of Messala , at the command of the Emperor Anastasius , the Holy Gospels , as written hy Idiot Evangelists , are corrected and amended . " The Reverend Remarker , writing under the guise of a divine at Leipsic , having thus proved himself an eminently faithful transcriber , probably trusted that none of his readers would again look into the Discourses ; for he ventures thus to indulge a triumph over the illiterate Anthony Collins :
" Ab Idiotis Evangelistis , hy Idiot Evangelists , says our author 5 who , if he is sincere in his version , proves himself a very idiot in the Greek and Latin acceptation of that word . Did Victor , therefore , mean Idiot Evangelists in your English sense ? No ; but illiterate , unlearned . What then
must we think of our author for his scandalous translation here ? Whether imputation will he choose to lie under ; that he knew the meaning of Victor , or that he knew it not ?" What , I may fairly ask , must we now think of the Remarker for this
scandalous imputation ; to borrow his own gentle phraseology ? I had occasion lately to mention this subject , very shortly , in the fourth volume of Dr . Priestley ' s Works ( p . 260 ) . I now state , more at length ,
the evidence of this pious fraud ; nor can any one justly fear the censure of any Christian for sttch an exposure . Those who tak £ the teligion of the Bible for their guide amidst the per-
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plexities of life , and their only hope in t | ie expectation of death , should be among the first to hold up to severe animadversion , every attempt to dishonour that religion by an unworthy
defence . Nor is there any weapon more unhallowed , which has been , or can be , employed in the Christian warfare , than the misrepresentation of the sentiments or motives of an
opponent . Of such a design it is impossible , in the instance alleged , to acquit Dr . Bentley ; unless it can be shewn , which is highly improbable , that he had seen a copy of Collinses Discourse , in which he had translated
Idiotis Evangelistis , by the terms Idiot Evangelists . If , however , any of your Correspondents can vindicate the impeached integrity of the learned critic and divitoe , you will , I am sure , afford them a ready opportunity . J . T . RUTT .
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Mr . Howe on the Aged and Infirm Protestant Dissenting Ministers * Society * $ S&
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JBridport , October 13 , 18 IS . TO John Gurney , Esq . Chairman of the General Meeting , held at the King ' s Head , in the Poultry , on Tuesday , June % 1818 , to establish a . Society for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Protestant Dissenting Ministers , My dear Sir ,
The purpose above stated , has been for a long time an object of my ardent wishes . Your communication to me , therefore , of the plan of this kind , in the formation and accomplishment of which you have , much to your honour , taken a very active part , afforded me the purest pleasure . The claims of
the objects of relief are set forth in the Address to the Public , in such a manner as tends both to carry conviction to the mind of their propriety , and to excite the best feelings of the pious and benevolent heart in their favour . With peculiar satisfaction , therefore , I became a subscriber to
this excellent institution . 1 am since however informed , and it is now a well-known fact , that a most strenuous opposition has been made by some of the Dissenters in London , to its establishment on a liberal and comprehensive principle . They objected to co-operate , even in this work of
mercy and labour of love , in making provision for the relief of those aged , infirm and indigent ministers , whom they deem heterodox * Deeply is it to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 625, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/25/
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