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several parts nof it can be of -jbo into * rest , t € > the ordinary reader * and though I believe that various portions would be of general interest and utility , yet , as-. a "whole , it is not calculated to be
popular . From the catalogues of most of our Tract Societies , it is still excluded by the price ; and it lias this year !> eea left out of that of the London Unitarian Society .
I should the more regret that the First Part has not been much purchased by the opponents of Unitarianism , if I had not reason to believe that it has greatly contributed to
lessen the resort to the Archbishop's armoury , and to make it felt among them that he has forged unsafe and even unholy weapons . Some indications of this effect I have stated in the
Preface to the third edition of Unitarianism the Doctrine of the Gospel , p . xv . 5 and it is not , I still think , too much to hope that " those who before employed his calumnious charges without hesitation , and sometimes without suspicion , will be constrained to caution , lest they also should incur the heavy guilt of bearing false
witness . " That such has not been the case with Archdeacon Wrangliam is a matter of regret only in respect to his character for intelligence and liberality . He has rendered Unitarianism a great service by bringing into the field of controversy , one , who will €
always * strive lawfully , " and for truth alone . Let me be pardoned in taking this opportunity to congratulate Mr . Wellbeloved , and , still more , those among us who value scriptural knowledge , and have at heart the interests of
religion and virtue , that he has accomplished one important portion of his Family Bible , by completing his Translation and Exposition of the Pentateuch . If , as 1 trust , he print a separate title for that portion , perhaps he will give such a one as shall make
the volume regarded , as it really is , complete in itself , and equally valuable whether or uot he go through the whole of the Scriptures in a similar manner . The volume already
completed should be in the hands of every family among us who have the means of purchasing it , and should be accessible to all . Liberal scripturalisis , of every denomination , would find in it abundance to inform and benefit them ;
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md bj ? such it ttul&e valued llie more it is known . If the estimable author had done nothing more for . the inte ^ rests of piety and virtue , he would ; be entitled to our gmtitude >* lt : has teen
reported , and I hope correctly , that he will ne ^ t proceed wit h $ he poetical books , Job , the Psalms , aud the Fro * verbs : perhaps lie will give his * readers information as to his intentions * through the channel of the
Repository I .- must join H . W . in hoping for information respecting the completion of Mr . Rutt's edition of Dr . Priestley ' s Works . lam well avyare that the i # * telligent Editor has not only giv&a very much unrequited labour to the publication , ( which I doubt not he
did expect , ) but also that he is left to bear pecuniary burdens from it which never should have been upon him . If , as appears , too many subscribers hav 6 been negligent in claiming their copies and paying their arrears , ( I am happy in saying that such is not tk ^ case with the eleven which ; come into
my hands , ) they should consider that it is a great evil not only to Mr . Rutt ^ but to those who have been punctual * and that it contributes to throw increased difficulties iu the way of
similar undertakings , even if less extensive . In one respect , ( I trust Mr . Rutt will bear with me in saying it , and , what is more , act upon it , ) he is in debt to those who have done
what they could to promote the sale , —I mean in reference to ihejirst volume , promised in 1817 > but still unpublished , intended to contain the Life and Letters of the Author . If he would execute this , ( which need not be nearly as expensive to him as those already published , ) our sets would be
complete as far as they go : without it , we have always a feeling of defectiveness . It could not cost him great labour ; and if not made too large , it seems not improbable that many , who * from having most of Dr . Priestley ' s separate works , have not subscribed to JVJr . Rutt ' s edition , would be glad to avail themselves of such a volume ,
and lessen his loss in executing" what was surely a very desirable object * and even due to the memory and labors of our eminent divine and philosopher . —Besides , however , the portion for general circulation , the first volume should contain a list of the works in
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740 Dr . Carpehter on his Reply to Archbhh&p Magee *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1825, page 740, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2543/page/36/
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