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Dcuctcb ia aklifjiou, iHoralitn, literature, Agriculture cmb cucral 3ntcTfience. '( 11 A ncnEDIXIIi PulIzLtrt XTH. !T0. 19. :". . RALEIGH, If: C, TODAY, MAY 7, 1852. WHOLE iSTO, 1100 g BIBLIOAL.RECGIIDER, 3lliou3 and JuiteTaxy Paper: , ' PfW at ltildgb,. C.i it $3 00 pet "an pidAi la alt cases nf AbVANQK. i '''irA'l letwr "a businew should be directed to . .vr. Marcu A. Meredith, Letters contairt "f ' "'.i1.a4hjn9. or Iff any way rtlaunir to thnL t 'fj,.,artRWi shouta be addre-f.vjd to "Editor of .vt JBacorder.1-. Private letters to the Editor. tJ ro refence io ie ftsprae, adtiresa ihu Yri communications, to inrre attention, mnst j 2yfortaiuie- parucutAza see last page THE LAVO NEWSPAPERS. i i.'ajscribera.TS'uo da not give express notice to the irr st-eonsidcred wishing to continue their ab- 'ffte iabsciHwr. oiIer the discontinuance of r4, the publishers may continue to send them "r. 6r ... i..nrM ar.5 Oaid. u jj-jj.ijscribers neglect or refuse to take their pa jUn tht office to whicli the? are directed, the) j rDotuMblc aatti they have settled ttieir bill vi-i their paper discontinued,; s ' . "r'jffjbsr fiber remove to other places without In , rVtr-spabhslicriand the paper is sent to the lor- ' ' ---r:o'i, tucy are ueiu re.'poasioie with admiration ? 'Wc find ia the very pamphlttng, cot t0 gay Calvinistic in doctrine, known and trustworthy the messengers of the pablbued in connectioa with tha proccediDS3 at ThoBendtnsr of deleffatca to the Presbyterian churches,-ind Ike glory of Christ"; If funds v.uuu u ov.j, iUYurauiQ Bicuuon aa,j CalvinisUo !Sjnod of Dort . dono in that VkgeMa aims-g vin neca Known ana approved qis J i. i.uw uiva, uuijr ami learnea WOuld not have been dona r in any later" ..ear triDutors, ao not tue tunas assea lor ccripiurt men." who. it ia said, hare been diswtifi(I witM... our churcbas' aa aany Tartn yerslons as tbej may have ' classical fichohra j and thoa would accept cs truo the : taunt of 'Ilomaniaui, that Protestantism, whsn fully obeyed, makes it every man's t daty to prepare and issaa bis own epa- (the received rate Bible. lessons, and the When the from time to v, il-jl-i ; a 4 r . - 1 "'-v .'' wcjaiuu, auu snaaow ana prcponajratini power . vuey evcrywaere louna a urecKun- as exposing, by lU absanKties of itylobe Scrip- Jishtuenfc. .13ut,'.aa thoio other bodies became do,' or whether , they,beWS.to tbo tribes and inspired version of the old Testament. Greek tares thmplvM tn onnr..mnf nA i r.i .... & . ev:, c 1-t?.:- t,..A -wjuuto unuwjona- was written in the, interest- of, Universal, to enctf, not to reject and impu-n, buVto accept, not been wont to ask this implicit credence in tbs ton5ue of fashion, commerce and philosophy u,aw u oat tbat futllPf) nnnUmt t .-J ' 1 -.!t ...u" '..1 1 1 ... . . ' Lk: 4 v if - pu0iu voroo iwas in me xianoi lasting, but " JConian," as ha phrassa-it Vidlcr ceived wt. For many eeneration their been asfed. Lave they been prompt to tender It. oi eaocatea iteorews UiroostiwaV tna- lCotnan t.,rt , . a .!j c. 1 - 1 - , " " ; , 'i. " - . I "ptwr uu iaeu ocancii in iae wore, jrratclui cadyrteracnt ana acceptauca aai cula- - x;aEaii uocsio? vz uoaa rem3va .errti"?. version, and then amonsrst others. I ve ao not sorcai the tiiLIei own aro recounted the names of" Searn WaVld - - . .l. Ui.. ,J8w .;:nB;n- examples of tha apostles. ini D ptinn - N.iwIV-.Vino'd t. i ,, 0 .... L,..-ts ti: :t .1.: 1. r ..1. . - . ! t,'V v " """"u"v",s. 1 then IC8DW ana ouican?, -US3 Lett paying tituej icuuryueji r ixa wc uui a rtgui. iu uww wuum- aposUes went everywhere, whilst, tainly incurred cetteral reDrobation. as bein? in A Ar.i,m .ti,.ujfr whn aro to interpret for us God's Word timo. theT wera writing the nest :f..:,.- ! . i " " if . . . . . . .-- .1. - v 4 .- -" i -.t -.v . i 01 ine r.staD- uwcitin, ma icuis.anu epcaK.tus w.xs ui. vu- dominions. It has faults far more grave and of Vidlcr more numerous than can be' alleged against our Lg a scholar t The 'wiJ hYQ decided that refusing to take a . ri.iilical from the office, or rem ovine ab.l nrr I7i - - c? ujial fraud.. latertstias Correspoaiencc. : Tls New York Recorder contains an intercs fci correspondence, between, an officer of the jtoiricior-Bible Umoa and tho; Amity Street Jiit church, in tha city of.New V6rk. f The 'jar from the Bibla Uninn asks for a collec t;n ia id designs, specially setting forth (Vjt its measures for a revised English version ire matarcd, and several contracts with scholars eoutlt'tedV The Amity Street church deelines grant the collection, and gives it reasons lidacsEot see the. need of saea r revision, nor, if it did, could it approve the modet and link it self -ia such a work with huch alliances. The letter written by ,Dr. Willia ms, and is tnark tl It his exuberant learning, his felicitious illas fo&B, auJ conclusive reasoning. Enclosed tltVtbe letter from the Bible Xlnion, was a prin- Endish Tersion. from a Paul misfit havo turned aside Vincotripetency and intnistworthinisst gies of it havo made it a greund of commoni nn- it may b' . hiked ? yo at and theologian, his controversy with ion, and a point o mutual appeal.1 Any- amen 1- ished collation, of mann think that, in the uufin- manuscripts ;in the slow cvo Andrew Fuller affords abnndan M " prepare, not on !y ,ng m Greek and Hebrew criticism, his knowl- siderate and effective only -as they should not be rency which individual labors, in tho translatioq anrwf ! rnnl.l hiva rnvnn tin inf.ili;i,1. ..1 ... I 1 . . ... . " . I ' ' P i . -. i t . . ' f I . .. leCt I iTHP.iC Vf1ftlOn nr Inn t Hit . I af uninl - I .1 1 . a . . . , ..... I 1 , ' . - - l j . j . . .. , . '. v 'v " . ""v.uvi v. x u-m, .0 cuff.AtMm. x uu wuuii u r reasouuig wmi trie nint urrection tar more sara . ana event- rr , . ' . " VrW' .4 . WS!D 0reC wo8 L renderiDsa of thoNewTnUmmt yourneiaLbof who is of another Chri me Ota esiaraent, witn variations from and corrections ' of the Sep tuagmt translatiori vour neiaubor woo is of another (uristiau com!nAtiv "-.hint sn!W(i: thari aiiht iraincd bv unDsr- eyed and favored that system constantly and re- umnion. a" Bibb not onlv tha't vou 'will believe, f.t. nnd nrfleinibitft.andunsiicceVsful endeavors Atl lentlasslv. Mrist' w rlisintrtr; tfiA tln'n wlifHnl k., t. t.Ai:.'.. ' f. . '1 i j i V: ' . - .1 . , . wu wuu mitt vuu vciicict iu vitinoo tuc UI1 till. pirv Ui Hial ucuutuiiiiiuu;. r j. . Mner7tVTe""rtoni Foller was th6t to havo routed and buried, prophetic gifts of tbe Spirit profitably ..in ! the in." But in yet greater distrust mast-we hold . . tr g , ; &ePnaffQti aen it was to re-animate them as guid.s and patrons along primitive Christian asssmblija, the speaker hav- u1Q iluasces which you have accepted in the not a close and exact version of the originally our critical war ? -Taken in tho mass, thesi I, th Rw find li.Jhft.-Th 1. . r 4 1,1. n.f Hebrew. Was he the seryent of a base expo- three works at least would serve, in our viw to .rt!,u LT IZTL :r" .7E . 1' .? . w . . JJ owncy, in failing to devote himself to the proT Uoinfa warning acainst the enterDriso. rather :.u.. ..i.w vtht i'r,--x. .Ai:JtuJ tl r I inn nf n rtrrrt rr.incl-i ttnn ? , Cr .n M.i . . . , . .. 1 .t 1 . . . - . I . ..,...;.,.(... r. ., " t man to turnisa an argument ior , . Ana 01 me the speaking should bcT of one at a tim5," and With that body, in Its doctrines,' ministry.' and seems tons, bo mi of the principles by yod pre- Englishman. Bellamy, (hot toba confunded with L.. ftulu -n L:It. -t:. Rentod trnnl'l rpnnira 119 ihn K.i f..itUe..i I . . .... . ' .1 . . 1.. .1 , ..! ' ., . . 0 , - --.- v..u, ...vuiiii on Anniean namesake, me aiscmio ana iriena m .,.-v.. t,- ;if tb .t,:--; 'ti.-t,.-.,'i.- j;AnB.. -r.. wu.BWBMiiorUnrdi,) whose labors on thct old Testa- Spirit of truthin thmforbade a moment pause In; all erCcds as one chief -caused prevalent aisposition ottbe iscw I estament writer to con-1 ment we have seen nleadd bv some as a nrece- oj ' j e r-- ..a . t . i i r.:..,u:.ri. t(nt. fiimMlf with ttia MnaMl ene nf . I . cr. . w - ine spint oi tuo propnets was 'subiaci to iae Cr, Uaiopbelhtes, or the Uisctptes, nave, m. va- mg of the Ola i estament, which he Eat;ht have recent English work of much authority Hamster's .V ' , , ' - ' . Vjv . 7 r . . . . r . . . - :,, ,,!,.. ; , YW reccn coaiiaa worx oi mucn aumoruy, uagstcr s prophets : and was therefore to be cx.erpisad by ri0us closer ptons of their tents, given what may raada more close in lU phrases an express do- " Bible ia Everv Lan4" has snoken nronounc- i j i i j-r ' - ; a . , .1"..' hv -l j - . . . . . mum ia iiierjr.iau . nas hpojstn, prouounc- them ia an orderly and edifyins; : nianner. r'And be called virtually a crefed. though diSfclauucd as sign of mspiratioa thus to anticipated anl re- in" Bellamy's work to ba too extra va(ntM to -t 4 . . .. . . ! P . . , . : , . , . .- ' , . - ... . . . .r - . iua utiuujf wont ro ua too extravagant to ro ,t seems to US. that th3 Spirit of truth, in hind n the. cnnvlrrifips of their members. We -..-t. . . I - -- HwMVM.y "',v,"e i wise anu a. a. p . - - - - uue sei lurm ot wurus. - : i , dious critics ana translators, wiu S33K i Hnd m trios .statements much that is obscure, ana . ' 1 1 . 1 1 t r. . I . . I ; , ' me names wmcu me laoorers oi your oocicry sec uttoranoQ in , tho forTU 0f a versioa 0f the ramia. and nainfullr. unsatisfactory as to Vreat xuuruiraa apparently pruowu on me as- u w 4uytc auu tiouor, mi wua imereniKi an Scriptures, by :such tnethodd of "utterance as will truths. . On soma minor .-"points, as the weekly mption mat your oretnren wno ueciino aaarina we nov anus up, as u respects we aounaaess o .. - ;ilftar:n,-.n(i A hplnlntr in nthr irafiwI nimnt. i nl if h-in nenasfinallv disnensed . . . . I i . i i . i o r o o o f ' m your revision are guiaea cy expeaiency, wuust naugmeni, aua puruy ot uoutriuc, ana perfection jca fofa sumi ndiyidual; and the stealthy . growth or 4 entire- itriumph of such heresies -has,- generally beca ;. , marked by. a -denunciation, of creeds. ,ihes swept away, under the plea of the uaioa of : Christians, there has been an absorption of .au . : TJie article o President Shannon - was pre. par9d for a voloma first appearing in 1 843, some ; tour years siuee. ;Then the union , ta Kentucky was so entire between the disciples of .tCampbslI . J and Stone, that Mr. shannon groups and de? scribos thorn under throne heading Historical Sketch of the:CtiKrsTiaN Church'11 aa-distin- guished froin the Baptists whoss' history iai tha , ' volaaie.,. precedes, and .front?-the Cumberland Presbyterians, l;os artiels" follows theirs, adl - ; rom. tho other denoaairiaUon3 in the State- v la j Rupp's , work, i published I four; .years . eaTliar, i (1$44 J;it ia -chintedi for ;the 1 CampTieintesr or ... Disciples .of Christ, that "with regard to the'D I vine Being; and the manifutions of th8 FatheTi- r i Son, and Holy-Spirit, by which be isrevealdi, ' ha Dbciples hold. ; sentiments incongruotut vsiih those nflhe parties who call thtvtsclces ' etan . 1 gtticalSl u But there seems certainly inrikgrvl ? tjf , if in a volume appearing only sotoe few years " ater, they are described as " p reaching thi siMS Gospei.' with B. W. Stone, who!1 reti? j diatxo the Orthodox view! on the atfsjfie i s of, tii a Tbijutv, Soxship; and Atoskmejit j'1 and th3 same with that' body founded by Stone-4 ; tho ifCArtslianx t?M&HnvcpreseBted, by one of their own preachers," ia the same work of iupp, four years before the appearance of Presi ; dent Shannon's - article, a' raverriflg that "they ! bund neither the word nor the doctrik e or th a r in itt in the Bible.' : A - : We would hope that tticfe 'may be Ttimtsi : rians, and many -of them, in the Campbellite coot x ncctioa ; but its fanguage and platforms seCm to us tb' repel them and to invite the adherents of grave and fatal error - Many of its' ministry and membership arc commonly regarded' as ' Ariaa, not boldinsr the Saviour V Equality of G , , A, i i e . your aim, on the contrary, is full, fearless obe of laasuage to be expected from aprojict her TUrepIyof the church refers likewise to that . . . J A , :." , , . r "', , , J r . n ',. - dieuce to the truth. In this you misapprehend aided by such outriders and.' forerunners . J.' ' " , . , the "actual position . of these brethren. When! But you say that so numerous are tho errors . e lay the correspondence before our readers n . . f , ,.'..-' , - . f - 4 - l' . in uome missions, not ouuuinz on anotcer man si correction consutuies a consiaeraoi: suara ot foundation, nor preaching Christ where he wasltbe duty of an intelligent minister in his weekly tb j seek at some inconvenience. tilt the subject itself is ; important, whatever proceeds front the pen oE Dri Williams is look- f d ,for viih such; general interest,' that we oould j7f5Sd in postronicg its publication in uluaiis to another week. -Watchman and iesj and not by such methods as would by a private memborthey .seem to' lay . stress minister only , discord and disorder, and pro&U But the mam peculiarity of the system, we have l.'ss and endless janglings. t .God is not a God of j not been able to distinguish from baptismal re confusion in versions more than in prophesyings" Jgcnsration,' which. "is, as we believe,' one of - the A soetyUn version of a work .that has, by the J most bainful of religious delusions, wronging the common endorsement of 'u all evangelical -sects, Holy Spirit, corrupting the first germs of the Chris become catholic and general, is little 'likely to tian church,- and dislocating the entire gospel T t s - -i " American Bible TJmn,7 .5 already named, did he really do - homage toa ministrations.", Ve cannot judge as to the da- 0Uab currency or confidence, even within .our by teaching men to expect in Sacraments that tow expediency?.. You allow with us thai bis ties of any -Buuatry of special inklligenee; but, own denomination, much less beyond if And kingdom of God whtch beginswit,Un theirown choice- as joj.1 ow ; ws : thls-hU rcfcvencejM t , ordinary : puustors A: their hargesy bbyij, jmf 60cUty Vf Its spxritsr'ThSVeV boMyTealUappearaneVmide of the' most needy field as demanding the first neither pastor nor people hac amongst us re- f . ' It ilnvn t,!a tthp -c m ' ; mA Urm nf -,.1-- icTtIE . . . i ' ' ' 1 i -rr i- a Equality' of . Godhead ith the" Father,5 nor regarding the Holy Gho3fc i a distinct Person.. " r v 1 - " . ' ' We, and oar fathers before us, arc, and "Late been, Trinitarians. ? Thcdoctrine Is enwrapped about our prayers and plans for '-"the conversion' of this world,' and all our personal hopes o Sal vation in the world to come. We may Tiot, daro not hold it in abeyance, or leave it ia 'doubt. j Looklag forward to the millennial evangelization, wi as ar' js- . ' . - ew Vork Feb, 6, 1852 Titit Amity Street Bapl Dear Bretkre Tnion applies to you tie object of our organization ureulate the a est faithful Scriptures W3rll . - - - HaviDir matured ' T 1 a.- -11. I 1. AM A A M .1 N ' Ah ha mm . J. m IL. a iwui, i ..uuii.v wu. vnu : v 6- j ; . -r - - wm1rin M thrt r tirAffr ward Vnr h.nntiqm h KlDictvn difupcr . ivn-. nnnr.ft op; TTitvna . ' . . - . . . . 1 I.-. v i. .. ... . . . t- I -o - . - " . r- j . . supply of the uncvangelisea. heathen with tbe puipis wor ro correct evermor? me pu.pi m- auot!lcr ; , h elJ an opea " qucB. that Ua fo. Juries been Ovemholmcd.' and .... . o . - ' . . . i . . - r . . must take was proclaimed to be reformation of Ike Nine- your enterprise rrtitM Century S.':- Ia an article, evidently by ivoeatcs cast i a memDert ana apparenuy Dy a. leaaer in me instructions to trans- Connection, contributed to "Havward's Book and restrain of Iteligions,,,j and quoted ia -Howe's Histori- .Collections of Vtrginiai,'.jit is, said that they TRiNiTAMasisa and. Unitarianisci as extremes begotten. by each . other,'1 istChurchNew York city: VU3r0ee - Wurman, ivarenana enmeso tiiow, uw. aVO ftu wu cu wui . but ja eff.ct immcr3et I I' 1 . k l 17.1 V J I" 1 IT 7 I M h Ai t AM f W I AW rflM an. A 1 .v.-lThe 'American Bible 15 aQ ODJcct OI n,Snen erw oousauou; i r , . . . " Y uMItbe place of "baptiz3 does not u . . riwniisL rtcisinnnf . m inn iiiiinfr iiinp. inn rei. ku .litio. wu bunt uu i utc vau uv tuuic ucu i . . t ,- lor a collection ia aia or i " " " - r-r - a - -- --- , .. , , . , , i incur me very otnsure wnicn your ao , to procure and uriar 01 an -QSs" J youruwu , ,v. f; upon Kin- James for his - 1 .. ' 1 t t 1 . 1 a . its. ..m ila. tk. s a u .u . 1 . ..... . , , . r. versions of tbe Sacred caowieagcmeuc good r- Are we jasuiua uu, , .u uV w. iuuiu. vua. uu wuo !alo ? y conscience3 ia all the .t languages thronghoat the lu w tuc . auSwu ua iwuS r-f--v .. - - - th(J unfottcrcd jQdgracnt of your revisors. . cal - Kong, ana tnweaEinp aown. me organization uuwxuwm ' Again, in withholding from the Baptist church- regard niMnrP ; MTwmn mat uocs most to suppij wese versions, m oracr l ' : JU". j"" "uc.u w". mvp u M , :nTnvP(i wi,Pin thn .btPni t i .; cftie English New Testament, ' and completed 10 conccntfaH length on the one or more effective argumenU of inGJolity and scepticism particalar G.;cek textof tb(J New Testament, and " cautiously avoidthem as equidistant announce yourselves to have seleeted jfrom the doctrine'and" facts . of several contracts with scholars, and authorized Pr(jects ai Vri?M times submitted to as, for a among the common people, are founded upon Lbicll VOtt ann tha completion of others involving an expendi- ne re"sl0n of e lWo - Jiut, assu. mtransiauous 01 me woras ot inspiration.. - th(J Qr critical hb COttrsc fc Clas-IsUio instituUoa."' Tha founder, ' the mmg mac your projects see 10 serve me irum, c um3b uul(. ut uo u pursued warranted by usage or right? - The Key. Alexander Campbell, ia his "Connected are you unanimous and assured that the alleged looked much into the pleadings of infidelity, and Greek tcjtt3 of tho several critical editors widely View &e t socakinz of the Millennium, endraents are really such?. To some of us the - counterpleading of those who have resisted diffc-- - tQ accura"cy-fulness, and orthodoxy. wh en all strifes' shall, cease amon2 Christians. ny of thess suggested changes appear paIFa- and refuted in. . borne .few rendenngs might GricsLilslt ra3 Baid tohav9' o'as hundred and fit'- ask9, "Will aU( be converted to! any. one sect ? sadings. Scholz, Consult- vVilt all J become Unitarians, " TriKitari ans tore of a large amount of money, we feel the freshing need ' of funds for this object, and also i3r the Spanish and French Scriptures.' Ca behalf of the Union, . : Yours, ia the love of the truth, . -W. 11. Wtckoff, Cor. Sec. jct James Farqcharson, Agent. Amity Sired Baptist church of: tltf city of New ara( many bly ternies erroneous. Are we to "be denounced as en-1 perhaps'1 bo more felicitous, to exclude here and! tj thousand various rea ies of the truth in withstanding their rasU there a sceptical caviL But wo bebevo that be- jug nearl double the number of MSS., could Urians', or Socinians ?" And he answers him-t ' common' mtelli- article written , bv lor vu American Union: I really assailing me trutu, so lar as ne lorces a translation can put out ot the liible. and that n,J t;nne . .v.tlnr th rrn rJtrinM nf tifl .tv o : cC Mex asd- Brethren-- The letter written poorer rendering into the room of a better ; and sound theologian or evangelical disciple would Scrinture: is not to be suDDOSed to bear anr Dro- Pmctf rtf tW fn,n;nX nrh Cnlle 0? your secretary, ana in your name, asz- the opponent of such deterioration ot tne amne wish put . out .thence. And. we must also add port:on to their number." But if Vour advocates at Harrodsbur ' Kv.. and contributed by -.him the expression of our solemn and mournful con - uavd 6noke"n much ot twenty thousand alleged fr f lUtnrift.1 Skf tches of Kentucky.?? bv H ana,aIs0 9 printed circular accompanying -Thd alteration most sought' by some esteem, yjction, that i very much has been cohceded to errora- ja the English', are they entitled to make La wfr Collins 6 it is stated that in that i State fash emendations and unreliable verv summary, and ouiat disDOsal of three hnn-Ul.v nntfnd arWh fr. '(!iinrsTi ah CosKexios." t Ia frankness let us present the views which cribing the firrk erdinanco of the .Christian renderings, that served only to conSrmto iucrel- dred thousand' variances ,ia the Greek text? S0Called,- the 'followers" of 'Bortoa V. Stone, as :rbil dot compliaace with your wishes. , ,,,1 Church. , We are not convinced that expedi- ulity they vainly sought to propitiate and soothe. And none of these .several Greek : texts can be beiB-r uon , the same rbuNDATiox,V and as 1 1J .1.. J.' . . . J. - uur admirable . iteceivea version nas, we eacy 0r truth requires the change, supposing tfeUaoiy pleaded, for the strange .translatio a considered to be now as perfect as the .fuithcr "pkeaciiino. the same' Gospei. ,and that on your platforms, and ia many of your that,asthe effect of such new rendering when which . ho began of the Old Testament, the no- collations at this time in slow progress will yet Stone "repudiated the .orthodox views on the JitKcationsV teen most unjustly dispraged.- once it become current, it Bhould jcome to be ccssity of thus ' counteracting infidelity; and maKe theraV If you refuso to give, like Scholz, subject'of, the , .Trinity,- Sonship,. adAtone Tle paly sound and trustworthy, criticism to be 8&id that the submerging of a eonvert ia water, Bahrdt, ia Germany, made, the like allegation for twelve years to travel and toil ia the work! is it u'rr. but disslaimed UnitarLinsra. The union i ... .... - I -a.i. ployed in amending its minor, defects, must Und his emerging, are not truly and fully desig- his; most reprehensible and irreverent version of bn the ground that truth does not deserve such took place between the two bodies in lS31"and 5tt with recognizing its rare and indisputable nated by tho word baptism that the last word bf the New Testaments It is possible; by awk- exactions. or that expediency does not allow the ?nd m 'dMeribin it: the bioffrabher of -j .. 9 , i . & -of. it. and whilst allowinff the existence of believe that neither expediency nor truth de- oas dpfMt"vp iWUred that it 44 was arrreed mands the chanse of term ; but that both unite ---j . o: - i ... . , ...... ..v ...... J U the iest o f an translation in thi world." in' requiring the retention of the present word. greater Selden" heTd similar views as to its ' And as to, other changes,' going behind this tezilzt worth.. Amona these-now most fluent one termV' can we overlook the warning testi- merits.- .s Now. - for.- its.-:-eeneral fidelity,- beauty j has been so distorted and "marred by supersti- ward concessions, excisions and ad iustments. to M.d.nr AsmUV.rma rprva -trn rlark- ci: - nAf .."Kir PrMtAUni. r - lianhA ilo- 1TI.1 it. jk. ..-1?m nnnnllii vKinn nftft I itn MA if ! V tt !o nr. Iaimm. n AtttriM nn-! . J A . . it... 1 . . 1.. I ' . . '- .. . ... ' . I , V "' . . : - '. .' " . '."' .' -. - f-.vAvcicuj,u caiawug fffuuM ;.T..r r uvua aagw , wa u bst """"6 iprouuce a ruu vcuuiuj; tatucr waau vuris- ncss mat may D3teitr-rest8 upon tao exact plan dares: " We solemnly - pledged ourselves to on Hjwisn. ,iiigukcsi ituata u bvuw v. .i j;CU.iiuuiwi vu viim.juimiv wiu uw vi-i Haufl Bvcutuiiuau m wuik,noi.cin,j iui vum-i 10 co pursueu iu re naermgs ana revisions nn.i . . . 1 . irr.il.. .. 1 ' n r rt ! I IJI . .1. 1.1 a l.a.wA e a . a . . . i. a l . . . vss eminent scnotsrs. i-'.tvuxtuu. vuwu) umauce ; . suwuw .hu' Uvi . us eamuwu mt nans, Cudworth; when met for a proposed rcvis- truth, in the vaia hope of advancing it ?. . We . as t0 tha preliminary .question, therefore, of mote points, different books of the New Testa- the XEE0 of: an amended version, and the bear- Intent,-, wbo.13 to give to their- independent and tags of expediency and truth oa the. present at- divergent labors harmony and fiual unison ? If a tempt, we are not in unison with you. :y:rv- f central committee in our city oversee this last 11. But allowing that it were-which allow- task, have wc not a right to inquire their names inee we cannot make needed at this time, we and scbolkrshiD ? U it3 denreciation. is it: common to find one monv of Carson, as to muca oyer wmc a moaern cr.-r a the best mode of securin? iust. schol-! And. in trivin At tk nim mAF (Ia' iit it . .sit..- it.'-. i I nnia a a hAintr fttnendation Many I i ' j ii. j ..-.,t. L i ' .: i . ;i i i. 'g eTeainc iuu ui tun uiuiium vuuuuii;uu) uhucuui ibmuw .. r, iriy, anu. uriuwuuj. i"uiw., . I irauaiaiiuia..wuum you-euipioy, is is regaru w 04 e.ther of these scholars ? It may be imper- real improvements be nas saiaj oi our irausia-1 yQU address jour appeal to us for aid, as we truth or to expediency that dictates this remark H but ' can y oa warrant any : translation that tion in pardcular ..passages have undoubtedly suppose, merely because we arc a Baptist church, table and . mysterious reserve ? In the prepara ba Trnff:.orl n i-tnce it. as betn? less lm-lrteen made, bnt BT FAB A GREATER H UMBER OI I Yon X(ni nn Similar letters to Presbvtenan.Uirn nf thft rpfp?T(1 vpreirtn : itt nimi r.f iri W4 w a v w a i.-- . J - .w -' - tf j I trt VM w a w wwwaww 1 wtwtvuy - aa w , w t? : Havs riot. notoriouslr. a large num-j pretended improvements are gross corrup-1 ConCTeeationalist. Methodist, and Episcopalian teamed and orthodox men to be employed were of chances snrjrested ia its reudcringsand Hons: . ; Besides, it is in small matters they I jhurcbes aroundns. Many of tho arguments in published. The Jews, in their offerings to the to the authors of the changes eecmed amend ; ia matters of tho highest importance j f0ar documents and oral addresses are to our tabernacle, knew as skilful workmen the; Beza- nesiiouable emendations. 5 nroved. ia the they pervert and corrupt." , So wrote Carsor ..burches as a denomination. Your officers are heel and Aholiab who were' to frame from their :-lcr judgment of the churches generally, but to the author of a celebrated article in the Id I nalnly Baptists. - So far,yoar enterprise b de-gifu the furoiture ot the sanctuary. When Sol- iged alterations for the worse? Can any mburg review, ominat emenaauona icay ot i j0minatiOnaI. omon cauedtrom lyre the bighly endowed Hi versioa so far approach the immaculate really, and have cftea been, violent wrestings of : " Now, the history ofour own and other evangeli- ram to build the temple, do we read that he ia perfect, as to coTnmand for aU its renderings of, God's truth x oa would avoid the admb- ,al churches, aid the providence of God as troduced.-the-v architect to the tribes without a tndmded" and i cordial r assent of any one sioa of such amongst your changes. But must haping that history, have given to our received name,' and wcaring'a mask ? - Why : repair-' the t:"'?5tenV scholar besides, : it may bel its own we "notlbe earnest ia demanding some greatei ersioa vjmore thaa deaominational character, goodly edifice cf our - Scriptures ia so covert a "-J author?-' Soma ill-coasidered rrin i'cisles safeOTard thaa the allowed honesty of your m l uhas & national reputation and authority.. , . It manner ? You inform us that contracts have 1 been propounded 'W to : the duty of every t tentioas ? Slere piety without learning, or aaere I bu gtruck. its roots through the British and A me- been made with some scholars, and about to' be b correct, at all hazard, by aa ed others, aad you ask fonds'ia their aid jra4 whatever7 ha cay lilitve to us, and to bota these need tobe' .adea,-; jng, lfr0m a time when neither the Latitudinarianism Und support. Should we not know the men whom :cf Lis 1 "ji :: Tint nriLfit-np. if fallr carried cent, taste, aid mastery cf our own rich tongue. I n0r Pela ranisa ofsomelater periods m the Ens-1 we thu3 e-darse and sustain ? When Paul seat r j - i . ' ... - . . - . I r.. . .... - ' rictica. would make it" the iaevitatle Do we recognize the presence ef-t-cso ia senr i Xitablishmenthai another before God. to abandon all speculations. different laborers are to translate, at 'several re j especially on the TRiNiTV,;and kindred sub tjects," contenting memsetves wuu lue .ocnpiu- raf phrases. This exclusive use of the terms of Scripture miy seem 'plausible. ;" Bat it was by some similar rule intended to exclude ail discus sion,4vand by the abolition of creeds, that Socio iaaism inaugufated its triumphs in the. pulpits of Geneva, once tenanted by Calvin aad his asso- wo believeTlat'the "fiiith "wh?chrwilf theaai subdued the world will be biblical,' and because " . biblical, therefore Trinitarian. If it be a want of .common1 rtclltgenceJ, as : Mr." Campbell charges, to cherish such a Lopei' we, and :pur churches gcnerallydo So Vaht ' commoa intef liffenee.-The -statement" tbaV Trinitdrianisui and1 Umtarianism are two extremes equidistant - frQtn the doctrines of the gospel, seems ta:us; a unhappy, as would be the assertion that i.eedom V and despotism were two extreme? equidistant -from liberty, or that the Bible and the Koran oc cupied the two outermost points, between ..wbich the revelatioa of Heavea lay, parted by an equal interval fro'm both. i .1 ; , 4 Our views as to the nature of the faith requi site For discipleship, again, do noi probably coin cide with those of most Campbellites. What we ' term but historical faith, not affecting th heart v or controlling the life, and existing in many of our bearers whom we do not regard as converted, they seem to consider as .identical with evangeli cal faith, and as entftlingto - the s admission of . . church ordinances. On the .operations tcf ? the v Divine Spirit, .we find: mtch to perplex and wound in the statements of Mr. Campbell.'1 " A faith wrought in tho heart" is, in his viewi " the : -. quintessence" of Ilysticlsm,' ' All the ;con- " vcrting power'cf the Hojy pirit i3 exhibited Id the divine Record. 'f This'aIeadshim to regard, if wo can understand his vrords,the ordinary, da ' pendenee' of evangelical communions oa the di rect influences of tho' Holy Ghost,as enthusias tic; He speaks of "-the enthusiastn'of preach- -er and hearer.! ' This is tbe disgrace of this i ge. Next to IhejtupersiUion of the dark ages, is.tht. enthusiasm of the present time. No wonder that atheists and sceptics scoff at our reIigioa,""S'iHtPT an army of LUlipulikus in feasont and . giant's 1 ia? noiset verlosity t declamation and shoutings' NEVER STOOD FORTH THE ADVOCATES OT ClIRIS TlAUITT IS AKT- AOfi OR.!cOUNTRT, AS TH PREACHiKo corps or thee; United States The caVse is the popularity of the prayer 'for " baptism in fire."'! Fire, fire, holy fire, the bap tism of fire and. the Holy Ghost, is tho text,' the v sermon, the song, and the prayer-VJ i Now, al though "as Baptists we may regard the phrasa ef . ' ciato reformers. N0W this Christian Con-j baptism in fire as a misapplied one in such peti- ' . . 'ii H.i1i'.' J -.i il. . it.. 1 f it . nexion'- bave become avowedly ' Anan. s " With yery few exceptions, says one of their number, l they are not Trinitarians atcrring that they can nsither find the word nor tiie doctrine, in the Bible." '.The Unitarians of .NcwEngland now fraternize with them, it is believed, ia the support of their Theological SchooL la the history of the churches, Arianism has ever pre pared, the way for ; Sociaiamsm, aad the later- mediate steps have beea passed by a community generally in the coarse of a generation; and oftea the whole change has beea perfected in the same 'l i i ' i it it x t,, I. . it. i-i i! . Ir 5 pictica. would taaie it the iaevitatle Uo we recogniza uiv iirtji.o v.-vv. f l tsaA-stafciiaamens oaa as yes currency ana away, i crxiuruu . w fa vt.u. wuuiouuuoa ii j Cincinnati, -1843, fp. 114 121.' - . - ;f tTcry r.aj who'rc-'l Greci o iz:u3 L:3 of the riT&l Tersioaa to' -which you appeal ts: xt'3 "Episcopal' Church cf'Ecsl wa3 then j tha charchcj, ha prc::tcd them cj raca wcll-1 ,r.upp Hi;t. cf Kelig. Dencm,, first edition, p. ICO. Charleston, 1843, p. 195. , . .'. . f Bethany, Van 1835, p.121. 4 ' ' v ' ' V X The same gentleman, it is believed, who, ca the last Annual Iteport cf the A. B Union (for 1851) appears as one of their Committie ox Versions. Is this z Committee to pronounce oa the fidelity t f lit versions to be issued 1 ' ' .' tions, yet, as to the prayers themselves for the Holy Ghost; in bis influences as the enlightener, rcnewer and smctifier, have they not hen th4 resource and hopfe of the pious, in all ages .of the Christian chtuch I. Do we accept j as a descrip- Uoa of the Baptist, JSlethodist, Presbytenan, Episcopalian, and Congregationalist . pulpits of the United States in 1S35, such language, as just to the mighty and holy mca then filling them and since gone beme, or as duly reverent to that great Agent, the ihird Persoa ia the ador 'able Godhead, habitually and earnestly, and not in vaia, invoked by them I " ; If it be nthusiasan thus to in:'Tcre fzl ex pect the influences,".. direct 'aad .cUvbe, cf tha :g c.;:::...ii:3, it- r:u: Holy Spirit, oa wcnhrpp be equally so ca translators and rethers cf tLa Scriptures." " Are our churches ready to.r-r -. that " enthusasrn,,, and -..take thjl;or t .' rcstcratioa cf lha criminal gospel ?J1 : c -
The Biblical Recorder (Raleigh, N.C.)
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May 7, 1852, edition 1
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