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      Account of Mr . iVilliam Christie ^ late of Montrose , no < w of Phila * delphia : Written by Himself [ Extracted from the Preface of "Dissertations on the Unity of God , &c lately published by him at Philadelphia . Concluded from . p . 138 . ]

      rr \ HE sale of the second and X largeredilion of the Discourses vnthe Divine' Unity , published at Montrme in 1790 3 was still more rapid than the former edition : in 1792 there was not a copy to be had in London or Edinburgh . iTheUnitarianSociety of London , who had taken off a considerable

      part of this edition , and had adopted tfre work into the-iraifrber of their ] z > ooks , proposed to me in 1794 * , throughthe medium of their secretary , the Rev . Thomas Morgan ; to have a third edition printed at their oWn

      expense ; but for a , particular Reason 1 declined the proposal ; though , I now repent that I did decline it , as the object I had then in view 4 id ' not succeed In future , if that society shall incline to reprint that work , they have my full consent to do so ; for I do not corisideiyit as superse < ted by the present Treatise , which is composed on quite a different plan . All I have to say ** thatif it ever shall be reprint-

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      ed , the editor will dome ^ the ^ justice to say in an advertisement prefixed to the work ^ J $ | t ^ - % ) &-here to the proper Unitdria ^ thtdrpretations' of Scripture contained in it ; and that I consider the Arian comments as-fiio further useful than as a ittattSi- of

      informn or curiosity . When I composed , first printed , and reprinted these Discourses , I was in possession of a far more numerous collection of theological books than I have

      immediately ; consisting of a formidgjple body of fathers , . cpiHWe ^ tptQjs , biblical critics , c&ip . amon ^ which books were more tjian' tW ^ Jfir editions of the GTei&k ^ estkhiSf ^

      the English Polyglott , X ) jc ^ J ^ % - nicott ' s Hebrew Bible , Woid ^ s Fac Simile of the Alexandrian Manuscript , to which I was a subscriber , Lexiconsi ^ Cfejj | pt > rdances , &c . _ __ . , . < % ^ : ¦ * &&-, 1 was at great # z \ $ ss ^ rfjjpfe suiting and ^ xnparing ^ % ^ readings ot that alwn * P !^ taaX book , the Greeie Testamen 1 ^ , ^ a Mill , Kuster , Wemeuif Griifp bach , and sometimes tMe Poif ^ glott : and therefore in this present work I refer occasionally to these Discourses with respect to the various readings . In 1791 , having been greatly moved by the accounts of the

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      BIOGRAPHY .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/1/