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    propriety in so doing . It is singular enough that Tertiust who wrote the Epistle to the Romans , see chap . xvi . 2 £ , should make use nearly of the same phrase- I y Tertiusy who wrote this Epistle , salute you in the Lord : though he writes in the name of Paul in the

    beginning of the Epistle , he ends it in his own name ; and in no part of it says lie had written by the direction or advice of the apostle . From the _ above circumstances , all those Epistles which have not the mark or token

    of this attestation of Paul , ought to be considered as of less authority in points of doctrine than those which have it ; as we are assured by the apostle himself that they proceeded from his own pen . Indeed , this is St . Paul's argument why we should not receive any epistle as written by him which wants this essential

    characteristic , but should only be considered by us as the apocrypha of the new covenant . I should be happy to gain attention to this simple statement by any of your learned Correspondents in your valuable Miscellany , where every

    subject meets with a candid reception , and is so treated ; and the more so , it must be acknowledged ,, as being of so much importance to the Christian world , and is by no means exhausted by any thing heretofore written on the subject .

    Permit me to remark , that 1 do not recollect any one of the writers in the Monthly Repository , on the final salvation of all men , to have quoted from a work on this subject , published and printed for Dilly , in the Poultry , in 1784 . It is handled very masterly by the Author , who is nameless . Its

    running title is , " Proofs of Universal Salvation , with Objections answered . " ' 1 he Author is , or was an Arian , but this opinion is unconnected with his argument , it would be doing an acceptable service to the religious world

    if a few of his Scripture proofs could appear in your Miscellany occasionally , especially the Author ' s proof from 1 Cor . xv , £ 4—29 . p . 197 , which appears to me , as well as to the Author , to be decisive of itself , were there no other text in all the Bible of the like import . PHILALETI 1 ES .

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    On the Rev . Samuel Newton ' s Objections to the Improved Version . Letter II . npiIE worthy author of the " TVn JL nitarian ^ s Appeal Defended , " having proved to his own satisfaction , and that of his admirers , that no person is qualified to be a translator of the New Testament who is prepossessed in favour of any system , unless that system be the true orthodox faith , proceeds

    2 , To exercise , I will not say His critical knife , but his critical hatchet , in hewing down the Editors of the Improved Version without ceremony and without mercy ; and , I must add , with an assurance scarcely to be paralleled . " What I judge of the Version , " says this prince of critics ,

    p . SS , " you have partly seen and shall see further . What are we to judge concerning those critics who make an archiepiscopal translation of the Scriptures the basis of their Version , and who in the third page begin to print two pages in italics , " &c . j— " concerning critics who tell us that part of the first , and the whole of the second

    chapter of Matthew are of doubtful authority , " &c . - " , —critics who receive the genealogy , and reject the miraculous conception , " &c . ;— " critics who found their objections upon the death of Herod , " &c . ;— " critics who tell us that jlvopcu is used seven hundred times in the New Testament , but never in the sense of create ? " &c .

    &c . And so the gentleman goes on in the same self-complacent style of interrogatory through four pages , sometimes stating , and sometimes misstating-, what the Editors of the

    Improved Version have asserted or assumed , never condescending to examine either their arguments or their authorities , and in the end coming to this most satisfactory conclusion : " So

    —their general character as critics is fairly impugned , and we cannot expect from them a Version , with the excellencies which they are pleased to ascribe to that which they have

    published . " In any writer but the author of the Trinitarian ' s Appeal , &c , the above mode of treating the defendants in the case would be thought a matchless specimen of vanity and insolence *

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    480 On the Rev . Samuel Newton ' s Objections to the Improved Version .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1819, page 480, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1775/page/20/