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too strongly urge the claims of the amended English version of the New Testament , to the exclusion of the text now commonly received . " We presume that many , and many of those who feel the importance of having an amended text in use , will say that such an event is impossible ; that it
is impossible to effect any alteration in the received text , widely circulated as it is , and holding possession , as it does , of all churches and families , wherever the English tongue is spoken . We answer , that nothing but a proper understanding of the subject , and a proper sense of its importance , is wanted , to cause the immediate introduction of the
amended Testament . It is not to be desired , by any means , that the copies of tfie English New Testament now in use should be destroyed or given up by those who hold them , but it is to be desired that all copies printed hereafter should be corrected according to Griesbach ' s text . Thus the old text would gradually go out of use . We do not expect that this will be done , but it might be done , if there was only a disposition to do it . 4
< How easily might the authorities of the English Established Church issue their decree , that all the New Testaments printed under their controul , should be , after a certain period , conformed to the standard Greek text ! " How easily might all Bible Societies determine that , after a certain period , they would issue no copies of the New Testament , but such as were conformed to the standard Greek text ! We are told
that the American Bible Society have formed the grand design of printing two millions of Bibles forthwith , in order to furnish a Bible to every destitute family in our country . Would not their design be yet more grand , if they were to resolve to print all the copies of the
New Testament according to a pure original ? Could not such a resolution be easily carried into effect ? We call upon the Society to do this . We beseech them to send forth among the people no more acknowledged adulterations of the Christian Scriptures .
" How easily might all Christian societies resolve to hear , and all Christiau ministers resolve to read from the pulpit or desk , uone but an amended text of the New Testament ! We earnestly desire them to form such a resolution , and to carry it into execution . . " How easily might all translations of the Christian Scriptures be made from a pure , instead of an impure original !
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Why will translators diffuse and perpetuate , in various languages , what they know to be errors , instead of using their power and opportunity to amend them ? " Why should not individuals , who wish to purchase copies of the New Testament for themselves or families , ask for the amended , instead of the common Version ? Will they not prefer a correct to an iucoirect text ? Do they wish to read for Scripture what in all human probability is not Scripture ?
" If these various and simple means were pursued , would uot the amended English Testament be gradually introduced , and become itself the common one ?
•* Either the changes made in the present version to conform it to a pure original , are very great and uumerous , or they are inconsiderable in magnitude and number . If they are very great , then the adoption of the amended version is the more loudly called for ; if they are inconsiderable , as we know them to be , then its adoption will be the more easy , as the change will be an almost imperceptible one . " We reiterate our appeal to the common sense and the religious feeling of all who may read these pages , in favour of ' The New Testament in the Common Version , conformed to Griesbach's Standard Greek Text . '"—Pp . 30—33 .
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Art . IV . —Prayer and Religious Tests , in connexion with the British and Foreign Bible Society . Two Letters to Lord Teignmouth . By Sexagenarius . Holdsworth and Ball .
J 831 . Sexagenarius disapproves of prayer and religious tests on the occasion of Bible meetings ; and here end his merits , as far as they are to be judged of by his book . About the nonsense it contains , we determined at the close of the first
page not to trouble ourselves . Whether or not to expose its iniquities , we could not decide so easily , till the labour of reading it proved any further exertion ou our part to be unnecessary . The misrepresentations of Unitarianism and Unirians occur so far on in the pamphlet , that there is no fear of auy one but a reviewer penetrating to them , unless some perverse reader should enter the wilderness
at the wrong end . Our only concern about the matter is , that any Christian man should commit to paper such a statement of the condition of any religious body , as the common use of his senses
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396 Crltiad Notices . — Theological .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1831, page 396, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2598/page/36/
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