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of the books which Unitarians publish for the young , " few of them comparatively bear upon their front any badge of their origin . " It further stated that the policy of concealing the origin of works had been acted on in respect of the Christian Child ' s Faithful Friend . The reply in the Monthly Repository was , The work bears the name of an Unitarian printer and an Unitarian publisher . The Observer grants that the publisher is well known .
Such are the facts . The Observer says the work conceals its origin ; the Repository answers , it declares it in the name of " a well known ' Unitarian bookseller . The Observer complains that the charge of his suppressing the name of the bookseller is invidious , for he never mentions such things * Marvellously j ust to suppress the evidence , and then declare there is none j " O , but I always suppress the names of booksellers . " Th £ h how cpttld you tell the falsehood that the work bore on its front no badge of its origin ?
You knew it was not so—you kn € t you were stating an untruth— --you saw the name of the publisher—you acknowledge he is " a well-ki * own Unita-r rian bookseller' *—and you are therefore convicted of dishonesty . Come , Mr . Editor , meet this charge—it is openly put—meet it openly . You are bound , in regard to your own character , to repel the accusation , if it be possible ; and you are equally bound to tell your readers that you were dishonest , or mistook , or wrote with a zeal not according to knowledge , or what
you will , when you said that the Christian Child's Faithful Friend had no badge of the party whence it came . Tell them , also , that the index which it exhibited you suppressed ; that the evidence it gave of its origin you withheld , in order to ground on such suppressions your uncharitable and unjust insinuations and charges . If you add , " I always omit the names of publishers ;* ' they will answer , " This you ought not to have done in a case where the question which you yourself originated , respected the source
whence the work came . In such an instance to suppress the name of the publisher was to suppress the ordinary evidence of the origin , and the veiy data that would have negatived your shameless assertions . " In your original review of the Faithful Friend , Mr . Editor , you say , " The Improved Version ^ instead of * He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved , but he that believeth not shall be damned , ' mildly reads * * He who professes faith ia me shall be admitted to the privileges of the Christian community ; he who
does not believe shall remain under all the disadvantages of a heathen state . ' " Here too * Sir , you have stated an untruth . You say it reads what you quote , instead of the Common Version . It does no such thing ; and if you had looked into " the Improved Version , " you knew it stated no such thing , -and have basely , and with gross falsehood , attempted to misrepresent
your brethren . If you did not look into it , you are severely reprehensible for affirming what you knew not , and what you might have readily ascertainedi » You- are called upon , Sir , to meet these charges . Your own character * is . "at stake * and your party is in some measure implicated in the result . ) The words you affirm the Improved Version ** mildly reads iqstead ? ' of the Common translation are not found in the text , but in the
margin '; what it does read instead of the common rendering is , " He who believeth and is baptized shall be saved , but he who believeth not shall be condemned *? ' Ftom a writer who descends to such arts to serve a cause we do not , we avowy expect an / hoaest retractation ; but we have little doubt that the Observer wtll , from fear of a public exposure , pay somewhat more outward attention to truth in the future ; except , indeed , it shall appear that of the Reformed as well as of the Catholic Church , it may be said , io the words of Bishop Burnet , " an- invincible humour of lying , when it might
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 331, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/35/
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