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    cal prejudices into the mind long before it is capable of detecting the art or the purpose . It will be a worse plague than that inentioned in the Old Testament : ' There came a grievous swarm into the house of Pharaoh , and into his servants ' houses , and into all the land of Egypt ; the land was corrupt by reason of the swarm . ' We are glad , therefore , that the attention of writers and publishers , who entertain more rational views of

    religion , is beginning to be directed to the wants of childhood . Our wish is , not that children should be kept from reading , but that proper books shotild be prepared , in which simple and practical truths only shall be exhibited in interesting relations . The stories published by Messrs . Bowles and Dearborn have

    this object , and are unexceptionable in character . Printed on a good paper , with a large type , and ornamented with a neat wood-cut , they are suited to attract those for whom they are written . The six we have mentioned belong to a series which , though composed of distinct narratives , is so paged as . to constitute a volume . John Williams is an

    excellent story , and was read by us with peculiar interest from our knowledge that it was in almost every incident true , or , as children say , real . "—Pp . 180 , 181 . No . XX .

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    On 1 John v . J . To the Editor . Sir , Map 5 , 1828 . It appears that , previously to the perusal of the Vindication of Porsm , noticed in your last number , the Reviewer of that , work did not know that several tracts had been published by Bishop Burgess in defence of 1 John t . 7 . Many

    readers of the Monthly Repository may hot be aware that those tracts had been much read by the Trinitarians ; and that , in consequence , the turn of opinion was certainly in favour of text . Such , however , is the fact ; nor is it in the least surprising . The generality of mankind rely upon the accuracy of an author who has any character for learning and

    respectability . Few persons have the means , and perhaps still fewer like the trouble , of examining references . Now , allow Bishop Burgess his premises , and his conclusions are sufficiently plausible to secure many adherents . The thing to be marvelled at is , that scholars , of whom better hopes might have been entertained , should have been misled by

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    his statements and reasonings . Your Reviewer has given ( from the Vindication of Porson ) the names of Bishop Tomline , a very . sensjtble man ; Bishop Huirtingford , a- very learned man ; and Dr . Tatham , a very acute mau ; as persons who have been satisfied with

    Bishop Burgess ' s exertions in this cause . To the list he might have added the name of the late , and indeed that of the present , Bishop of Durham . The late Dr . John Jones , a valuable contributor to the Old Series of the Monthly Repository , contrived to persuade himself that the text 1 John v . 7 , when rightly interpreted , was most decidedly hostile to Trinitarian sentiments ; and it is amusing to observe the facility with which he availed himself of the most

    wretched of Bishop Burgess ' s arguments in defence of the verse . In short , you would be surprised if I were to mention the names of persons within my own knowledge who have lately shewn a disposition to maintain that the text is a genuine portion of Holy Writ .

    Let me here state , although the circumstance is unconnected with Bishop Burgess's labours , that even Dr . Blomfield , the present Bishop of Chester , a scholar of the first order , a professed critic , and a man of great talents , has manifested a leaning to , th £ v disputed verse . In a sermon , entitled , " A Reference to Jewish Tradition necessary

    to an Interpreter of the New Testament , " which was published in 1817 , this learned person , describing the importance of the Ancient Targums and the Talmud , thus writes ( p . 16 . ) : " An argument of no inconsiderable force has been deduced from the same sources , for the authenticity of the celebrated passage of the three witnesses in the first Epistle of St . John . "

    It is admitted by the Reviewer of the Vindication of Porson , that the work was well-timed - but when circumstances of the kind above described are taken into account , you will , I think , be of opinion that the work is of much greater importance than he imagined . The Reviewer seems to think that Bishop Burgess has beeir treated with undue

    leniency . Perhaps it is so . The style of writing , however , adopted by Crito Cantabrigieusis , has its advantages . 1 happen to know that the Vindication has completely satisfied many persons that the verse is spurious ; and this effect in , f believe , in a great measure , to be attributed to the perfect fairness with which the argument fo conducted , and

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    416 Occasional Correspondence .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1828, page 416, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2561/page/56/