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which some suspected was inserted ( i . e . amongst the errata ) to make the passage more remarkable . This passage is noticed by another writer against Collins , Dr . Dan .
Williams , who says in his " Letter to the Author of a Discourse ? " &c . p . 28 , cl I am glad to find among the erratas , the following' clause , viz . If man be under an obligation to listen to any revelation at ally
The evidence now produced will , no doubt , prove sufficient to convince Mr . Rutt , that it is not u impossible to acquit Dr . Bentley of misrepresentation of the sentiments or motives of an opponent . *'
Permit me to take this opportunity of correcting a reference in the late Rev . J , Simpson ' s valuable work , entitled ** Internal and Presumptive Evidences of Christianity , " He cites , p . 251 , " Deism fairly stated , " &c . as a work by Collins ; now Collins died in 17 & 9 , and the work cited as his , was not published till 1746 .
Regretting that I have occupied so much of your useful Miscellany , on a subject which will not perhaps be interesting to many of your readers , I will add no more , than that 1 am , PAMPHILUS .
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Mr . Ruffs Reply to Mr . Branshy on the Character of Dr . Bentley . 745
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favourable conclusions I drew , from apparently just , but now as justly disputed premises . Nor can I regret the language employed , under such unavoidable , however erroneous
im-1713 , in which the deservedly ridiculed translation , Idiot Evangelists , was entirely omitted . Yet I cannot see any reason for disapproving the
impressions , as any language , less severe , would have ill suited the occasion . I knew , from ocular demonstration , that an edition of the Discourse , purporting to be published in 1713 , and appearing to be the first , had the
expression ldiotis Evangelistis at page 90 , untranslated . I knew also that this edition could not be , as my friend supposes , the corrected edition of the Hague ; because , besides being in 8 vo ., it wanted the qualifying parenthesis , in the concluding paragraph , and the references to the Remarks and the Clergyman ' s Thanks ; all which are ascribed to the Hague edition , in Biog . Brit , ( IV . 23 , ) on the authority , not of Dr . Kippis , but of his predecessor , Mr , Brought on . My copy of I he Discourse has on the
titlepage , " . London , printed in the year mdccxiii . " During the present week I have seen four more copies of the same edition , with ldiotis Evangelistis untranslated , at p . 90 . One of them is ia the British Museum , and is the
only copy of the Discourse in the catalogue there . From the external decorations , it appears to have been in Queen Anne ' s library , where it was probably placed in 1713 , but certainly before August 1 , 1714 , a day which Nonconformists cannot easily forget .
I may here also refer to that anonymous banter which Collins appears to have provoked , * from the friend of Boiingbroke , not so much by his supposed hostility to revelation , as by his enlarged views of civil policy and religious liberty . This pamphlet , long known as the production of Swift , is entitled " Mr . C ns \ s Discourse
of Free-thinking , put into plain English , by way of Abstract , for the Use of the Poor . London , 1713 , price 4 d . By a Friend of the Author . " This Friend introduces , in his ironical
manner , almost every other topic in the Discourse , yet entirely passes over the passage in question . Swift must , think , have read in his copy ldiotis Evangelistis . It is obvious , that Idiot
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Clapton , Sir , Decembers , 1818 . IT was worthy of your Correspondent , Mr . Bransby , [ p . 683 , ] so promptly to vindicate the character of " the illustrious dead . " I knew ,
from his obliging communications to myself , that my respected friend was not unblessed with literary curiosities ; and 1 am glad to observe that , among them , he is in possession of such good authority for the opinion , which appeared to me [ p . Q ^ 5 ] " highly improbable . " It cannot , however , be
now doubted that the Author of the Remarks , when he published the first edition of his first part , which has the date of " 1713 , Jan . 26 , stilo novo " might have " seen a copy of Collins ' s Discourse , in which he had translated ldiotis Evangelistis , by the terms Idiot Evangelists . " I also take for granted , that when the Author of the . Remarks ,
published the first edition of his second part , which has the date of " 1713 , Sept . 18 , stilo nova" lie was still ignorant that there was an edition of the Discourse , dated the same year ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 745, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/17/
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