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July iwd Aufue V givea Aft uxte ^ eatogi bgqw& % o £ $ ta < Btfshop of . lietodafl ^ , t £ | g ^ £ # > J w tpaest , weHt T ^ wn ^ parteM ^ ft ?? iu humble ; life ^ e IK * shop's p ^ j «[^ jr yai ^ Miltieisi ^ ui ^ not ; given . It : h ^^ lway 3 ^ ppe ^ red to roe a graft ? <} £ & ££ m modern , Magazines , &c , to i ? ec < wrd publications or
aaeedotes of the bishop of A , B > < Vor the dew 9 f © , 15 * F * , omitling their sur-i names . Changes are frequently making , mA Jthe bishqp Mr dean of C or L to * < te ? i W&y r ^ P < We toD oc W to- * norrow ., Bishop WatsOa was kept at Landaff for a very unusual term , but he always gave his surname . A learned work of
Bishop Mar $ h Was reviewed in the British Critic several months since * ; who was called in the same article , Dr . iVlarsh , Bishop qf Landaff and Bishop of Peterborough , to which see he was
just translated . Many of your readers may not possess a Court Calendar , and if Ah £ f fdid , before coming from jthe bookseller ' s , changes often tajke place . * Thoroughly dfsliking the illiberal Reflections ao often made on the
advocates for a new version of the Scriptures , Or a different rendering of particular passages , yet a new translation of fh& v ? h&le' ttiay be far less ^ expedient than a serious , diligent revisal . Numbers tlwk With me , that hardly a
single chapter in any tiew translation whateyier ^ , reads 90 well as Uiat made ugdc ^ r ^ Janie ^ I- A careful mvisai of tt ^ , jal teringobsolete phiwea , manifest eirp ^^ a 4 giving the same names tor peraon ^ in tfee New aa they are called | y in the , Old Testament , woiiW prtard very us ^ feii to devout readers . Had thi ^ plan bew adopted , instead of \ ¦¦¦ . ' ' ' .
\ + . Jfo dhbishop Seeker , bom and edupated amongst jOissentorg , and in early W fr ^^ gff ^^ fi * . $ V&fy > finely oa fc ; l& gtpH ^ dubjectd , ^ a 4 supposed to "be much influenced by vtihdH motives . Bishot )^ <* m mbtenbe their chrfetian with conttactM < w antiquated nan ^ s of thdr aeea ; When Dp-Se ^ k ^ r wa » mttde ptU iatmmf ihH epigraa * appeared , —4 c to to be ^ o ped more smart than just : ¦ '
rt ^ i ^ dpVoft * pose tis totnowwho « - ^^ tfceW ^ Attd Jtol ! fen ( ii B » % Ora < je ^ f «^ < Jay lef » tw | htiow
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making . Arthlnsho ^ Newcomer i ^ grband-woitfcofa newversi ^ ti , itwoi ^ prbbably , have met vrith mWe k ^ ti ^ tal approbation . Few , if any pf yotir readers ^ have been longer conviiiebd than myself t that the 7 th versfe in the 5 th chap , of St . Johir ' s , F&St ^ Epistle ,
is an addition to What be wrote ; toany pious persons , however , would be startled if abruptly tbld this * In private conversations , and tracts designed for unlearned readers ,, it might be better to suggest that it is onty . wiittea " tfcesfe three are one ; not one
person , but one in the sense our l 4 Qrd meant when he ptkyed , John xv& 21 " J that the disciples might be one in him and the Father , ' * My venerable friend Mr . M , . Tow-^ ood , convinced me in early life , >*< that it was wiser to attack the citadel of
supposed errors by & * p than by stop ** . " Forbearing the use of ungcriptural expressions , and explaining those misunderstood in a different sense from th ^ commonly rec eived , might d * avr off individuals and societies by degrees
from ancient opinions , on which " the making a direct assault , niight excite alarm , strengthening rather than subduing them . Modern Unitarians owe mtich of their ability and opportunity , in disseminating what they think truly
scriptural kleas , to the learned qua pious endeavdtire of their predecessors in ' the ministry , who proceeded with prudent caution , and , sanctioned by the exam-I ) le of their divine Master , gradually et in the light as their hearers were able to bear it . Countenancing error
is confessedly wrong ^ how to correct error moet effectually , must be left t 6 the discretion of individuals and the persons to whom they gain ah opportunity of communicating religious
knowledge . M y ministerial connexions have never obliged me to use that ^ eservier whidi others properly judge expedient * . , Mr . Rutt ^ s services to the cause
of liberty I much esteem ; but his remarks m the Christian Reformer for July on whftt I thought % harmless and not useless hint , given hi that jpiiblica tidtt : to ^ Juwe ^ : mp ^ pr ^|^^ miBg ^ V ^ heii ^ 4 ^ Thoorfi convinced ^ J ^ f »^| siMf | ^^^^^ Mmm ^^^^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1820, page 642, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2494/page/14/
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