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    necessary to ivtort . Coarse and vtilgar feifiguagv is no advantage to a ^ y cau ^ e . The Unitarian * disdain to descend to it , and if their principles cannoi stand without it , they are content that they should frtt .

    foundation of the charge against the editors of the Improved Version , is trifling in the extremv . It suited I heir purpose better to make use of a version already existing , than to make one entirely ltew . It was their desire to adopt Mr . Wak < nVlds '; but

    circumstarices made this impracticable . They then fixed upon Archbishop Newcome s as the basis of their publication ; and the reason was , that though this version was , in so trie respects incorrect , it was , nevertheless a £ > reat improvement

    Upoa the public version ; it was likewise out of print , and not at ail likely to be republished . Nor Could they , without ihe most fla . grant violation of honour and ho .

    ttesty , have published their work , without the most open and explicit acknowledgment of the use ifchict * they had made of the translotion of the learned Primate . Mere than nine + tenths of the

    Improved Version is the Priinate ' s own ; and wherever they have judged it expedient to deviate from his translation , Che editors have , with the most scrupulous Sdelity , given notice of the change , and fkif down iKe primate ' s words in

    w margin . Had they neglected to acknowledge their obligations tO Archbishop Newcome , their adversaries 1 would have been ready enough to charge tbem with false-$ &Ut ' - ;> $ njd fraud ; and what is tyoj ^ e j their ! ovyiji consciences WPOld have joined in the eccusa-%# J $ u % aa , | b fj ^ obi < #£ of abdU

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    tering themselves under the name of Primau * Newcome , tho crtnHi * - "deration wa ^ too tnfiui to nave even a momentary < tiVct ;

    andthose gentlemen of the Established Church , who are so forward to bring the charge , may do well to recollect that , whatever might be the individual merits of Dr .

    Newcome , and tl » ey were such as entitled him to high and universal respect , the editors of the Improved Version , not being professedly Episcopalians , are not idolaters of Archbishops as such . Their homage is paid not to the mitre , but to the men .

    2 , Dr . Magee cavils at the evidence produced by the editors of the Improved Version , to slio \ v * that the two first chapters of Matthew and Luke are spurious , that is , that they were not written by the evangelists to whom they ar 3 * ascribed , and whose name they bear .

    It is only a summary of the ar * guments upon thib subject which is given in the notes to the Im * proved Version : whoever wis-hesto see the question discussed at large , may consult Dr . Priestley ' s History of Early Opinions con * cerning the Person of Christ .

    It is an obvious objection to the supposition of the spuriousness of these chapters , that they are contained in all the mynuscripts oi the New Testament , and in alt the ancient versions . This

    objection the editors repel , by stating , that though they are to be found in all manuscripts which now exist , they " were wanting in manuscripts which were much older than any of these , viz * in the copies of the Ebiomtet * or Jew * ish Christians , and of frlarcion » who lived iu the secaod century ;

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    Reply to Dr . Magee . —To the Inquirers after Christian Truth . 4 Q 1

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 491, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/3/