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The writer of tte « Three Additional Letters" adds , " As I have not claimed for the Unitarians , the association of the distinguished names of Simon Episcopius and Conrad Vorstius , I do not feel myself called
upon to inquire , whether they were rightly or wrongly * both characterised in their day as Socinians . * . Nor am I bound to contend for Grotius , Hoadly , or Chilling worth . I do not profess to hold a
general retainer for Unitarian writers of all ages and nations ; nor does my avowed object require that I should justify every position which any of them may have advanced , or contest with you every point which you may choose to moot . "—P . 111 .
It is not unknown to our readers * that Mr . Wellbeloved has engaged in a translation of the Scriptures , for the use of families ; and that , in the progress of this extremely laborious task , he has nearly completed his version of the Pentateuch . For such an
undertaking * be possesses qualifications , which seldom meet in a single individual—an intimate knowledge of the original languages , of scriptural phraseology , antiquities , &c , great diligence , sound judgment , a pure and elegant taste , and , not least , a sobriety of mind , a spirit of devotion ,
seriousness and impartiality , which does not permit him to lay before the world what he has not previously and deliberately weighed , as in " balance of the sanctuary . " Such is the man at whom , and at whose highly meritorious services , the Arehdeaeon of Cleveland allows himself to sneer .
Our author ' s reply to the dignitary's sarcasms , is full of manly independence and powerful reasoning : the eonelusion of it we transcribe — " the motives by which I was induced to enter upon the work , will , 1 trust , support and animate me as I
proceed , and afford me consolation , whatever may be the issue . It I prove , in any measure successful , * the temporary offence to the prejudiced will be outweighed by the judgment of the reasonable ;\ if unhap pily I fail , as many have in a greater or less degree failed in a similar
undertaking before me , I shall have the satisfaction of reflecting that I have been employed , at least as usefully and as suitably to my profession , as I should have been had I spent c ten or twelve years upon Horace or Terence / or devoted myself 4 the study of the orators and poets , the historians and philosophers' of Greece and Rome /'—Pp . 11 G , 117 .
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On another subject , which Archdeacon Wrangham has thought proper to introduce , the author of the * Three Additional Letters , " writes with his characteristic modesty , and ^ at the same time * with a ju $ t
reprehension of the dignitary ' s want of courtesy and violation of decorum . From some language of Dr . Carpenter ' s , which this gentleman has misunderstood and misapplied , occasion
is taken in the Appendix of 1823 , to speak ironically of " Mr . Wellbeloved * s . erudition /* &c , &c . ^ personality so disgraceful to the individual manifesting it , could not be allowed to pass uncensured :
" ludeed ,. Sir , Dr . Carpenter has given the world no such assurance of 'Mr . Wellbeloved ' s erudition ; ' nor has he said , that any persons are engaged with him in the study of the Greek tragedians , historians and philosophers . He has indeed inserted ' a statement of the course of
biblical study pursued in the Academical Institution at York / but , witb the exception of one or two epithets „ which I sincerely wish he had not used , he has passed no encomium on myself ; and for this I do most cordially thank him . The passage which you have cited ,, was not
intended for me ; and I assure you I have to © great a dislike to compliments , to appropriate to myself any thing of that nature , which belongs to another . What you have converted into a sarcasm and a sneer , was designed by Dr . Carpenter , to be a merited encomium on one whom I
have not only the happiness to call a friend , and a colleague , but to reckon among the members of my family , a » d who , excluded as he has been , and that I repeat , unjustly , from the € national halls of learning , ' is inferior to the Archdeacon of Cleveland himself only in station and in years . "—Pp . 118 , 119 .
The third and concluding Letter , in this pamphlet , is appropriated to a notice of the Archdeacon of Cleveland ' s further arguments in behalf of , the Trinitarian doctrine . We shaJl here copy a few sentences in which his opponent exactly describes the ^ state of the controversy ., in modern times :
"' Be it the grace and glory of our adversaries' (^ thus you begin that part of your Appendix [ p . 69 ] to which I am now to attend ) c to struggle for the transposition of a comiHa , or the ; extrusion of a medial line in a Greek capital . It is ux > t . upon the niceties qf philology , however exactly established * that we place tl ^ e . corner-stone of Christianity . * No , Sir ,
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Review . — Wetthetoved ' $ Letters to Archdeacon Wrangham . 16 ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1825, page 167, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2534/page/39/
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