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    • ilELIGIOUS, JLITKIIAEY, AND POLITICO. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
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      gatlons in the kingdom , the MS . of ? ivhich he intended to be deposited in Pr . Williams s library . He left considerable property behind him , but had no family . The bulk of his fortune he bequeathed to the relations of his friend Mrs . Stinton , in whose vault at JBunhill-• fieid he de ired to be buried . What

      < Jie lek in -charity to hig poor brethren , to the widow ' s fund , 8 cc . &c . doth not appear . It is -well known that he contributed a hundred pounds towards carrying on the present war . Mr . A . P . MOORE , at his apartments in Howland-street , on Friday ,

      July ii , in the 29 th year of his age . He possessed very distinguished talents as an architectural draughtsman . ' His drawings will long remain as an evidence of his great industry and faithful accuracy . His last work is truly excellent , and deservedly celebrated , ^ viz . a draw-

      Ileligious, Jlitkiiaey, And Politico. Religious Intelligence.

      ilELIGIOUS , JLITKIIAEY , AND POLITICO . RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE .

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      • RELIGIOUS . HEW VERSION OF THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES—Report of the Committee of the Unitarian Society appointed to take into consideration the test means of carrying into effect the intention of the Society to publish an improved version of the New Testainent : —

      * It has been a great object with the Unitarian Society , from its first institution , to publish an improved version of tbe Scriptures , and especially of the New Testament ; but this design , though it has often been attempted to be carried into effect , has , from various causesy hitherto proved abortive . It was ,

      however , seriously resumed at the last General Meeting of - the Society in the month of April , and a Committee was nominated for the purpose of considering in what manner this desirable object might be most effectually accomplished . And to this Committee it

      appears , after mature deliberation , that the be t and the most practicable method of carrying into effect this important de ign , would be , by taking the * i ran lation of Archbishop Newcpme as the basis of the proposed version , and by introducing such alterations only as may appear to be necessary .

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      ing of that beautiful structure , St . Mary's , Tauiiton . By his death , the public are deprived of the completion of a grand drawing of the Elevation of the West Front of St . Paulas , a work 1 $ which he had been occupied for several years . His name and works are familiar to those who have been in the habk

      of visiting the Exhibition at Somerset-House for some years past . Ke w&s a man of excellent understanding and warm piety . He devoted much of his time to our old practical divines . He associated chieily , we believe , with the

      more moderate of the Calvinist Baptist s * Lately at Scarborough , MICHAEJL PEARSON , Esq . of Spital-s < juarc , London , in the 76 th year of his age- Of this friend of rational religion and civil liberty , we hppe to present our readers with a more full account in our next ; number .

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      It is a singular recommendation df the learned Primate ' s version , that it is professedly taken from the edition o £ Griesbach , which is luiown to be th « most correct edition of the original text ; and the language of this translation is a . considerable improvement upon the .

      public version , while at the same time it retains much of its beautiful simplicity . It will , however , be necessary to alter it in some passages , in which the learned and venerable Prelate ' s judgment may be supposed to have been misled , either . by ur . perceived prepossessions , or by ^ the

      fear of deviating too far from the common version . In these cases it is proposed that the Editors of the improved version should keep an eye to Mr , Wakefield ' s translation , without , however , binding themselves , in all cases , to adhere to it .

      " As it is the wish of the Society that the improved version should he published in as cheap a form as possible , it is proposed wholly to omit the Primate ' s notes , and only to introduce a

      few occasional remaiks , where they may be necessary either to explain the Scripture phraseology , or to vindicate a departure from the common translation . It is hoped that the whole may be com - prised in a moderate compass , and com-

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1806, page 383, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1726/page/47/