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to Beza ; and the head and front of the offending of the Editors , is their having too implicitly followed their guide . The remark is not their own . It is wholly and literally copied from the Archbishop ' s Version ; and his name is affixed to it . Not referring either to the Improved
Version , or to that of the Primate , but relying on Dr . Nares , no wonder that you were deceived ; for he has most disingenuously represented the matter . Is it fair and honourable thus to repeat serious charges against authors , without being at the pains to examine their works , and to ascertain whether they are well founded ?
(< But Unitarians seem to be considered as out of the protection of the usual laws of controversy ; and given over to be silenced and destroyed by any means however foul . " *
The Archdeacon of Cleveland quarrels with the following example of punctuation in the Improved Version : in Tit . ii . 13 , 14 , it inserts a comma after ® £ 8 , and repeats the particle of before arurypoi ;; thbugh , like the translation which underwent Dr . [ Mr . ]
TWells * reprobating criticism , in Pet . ii . 20 , ( where only Kvpioq , not © sos , is concerned , ) they omit both . But the single various reading of Grieshach omits the nat , and thus makes the
identity of person , if possible , still stronger . With Mr . Wellbeloved ' s most satisfactory answer to this head of accusation , we shall take our leave , for the present , of his first " Three Letters . "
* ' In placing the comma after 0 c < w , it [ the I . V . ] follows the common English Version , ( see especially the Oxford ed . of 1739 , ) arid for repeating the particle of before o-coT-rjpo ^ y it has the authority of that high Dignitary of the Established Church , whose excellent translation it
takes for its basis . And iu omitting both in 2 Pet . ii . 20 , it agrees again with the Authorized Version , and with that of the Archbishop ; only with the latter instead of the Lord , reading our Lord . While
aiming a blow therefore at the Improved Version , you have smitten both that which \ s held in reverence by your own church , and that which proceeded from one of its most eminent members .
* Archdeacon Wrangham , if he be acquainted with the Calm Enquiry , &c . ( p . 219 , 1 st Ed ., ) might have known that Mr . Belshain has expressly cited Beza , for the € > rthodox interpretation of John xx . 28 . — Sec that work .
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Ci Pereunt Hypanisque Dymasque Gonfixi a sociis . " " As to the various reading of Griesbaeh ,, which has called forth from you the echo of Nares remark , ' Griesbach ' s only various reading is the omission of v . ai ^ which would make the case stronger * ie
is supported by no authority ; for the testimony of Facundus carries Jittle weighty and every biblical scholar knows , that the ^ Ethiopic translator , the only other witness , omits the conjunction , whenever he regards it as exegetical . I grant that he so understood this passage . " [ To be continued . ]
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44 Review . —Memoir of the late Mrs . Henrietta Fordyce .
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Art . II . —Memoir of the late Mrs . Henrietta Fordyce , Relict of James Fordyce , D . D . ; containing
Original Letters , Anecdotes , and Pieces of Poetry . To which is added , a Sketch of the Life of James For * dyce , D . D . 12 mo . pp . 139 . Hurst , Robinson and Co . 1823 .
rTuIERE are some persons yet lir-JL ing that speak from recollection of the eloquence of Dr . James Fordyce , the pastor of the now extinct congregation in Monkwell Street . The mere reader of his Sermons wonders at his great popularity . As a sermon-writer , ingenuity is the highest praise that can now be awarded to him . There is
little depth in his thoughts , and Ms style is finical and altogether artificial . A preacher ' s popularity in the Metropolis depends mainly upon voice , figure and manner . These distinctions cannot be expressed in print . Hence , some popular divines have been
prudently cautious of publishing their discourses . The late Mr . Worthington would probably have lost his attractions had he frequently appealed to the public through the press ; and
Mr . Irving , the bright pulpit-star of the present day , would , in our judgment , have stood a better chance of being always gazed at by the crowd , if he harl not made up his Orations into a ( lull and unintelligible book .
Every preacher would be popular if he could . His usefulness , not to advert to less honourable calculations , is measured by the degree in which he can captivate the public ear . The
majority of preachers must yet be contented with being merely acceptable ; and the history of popular divines , the arts and accidents by which they rise , and the manner iu which
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1825, page 44, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2532/page/44/
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