instance, of "inventing the text for the translation,” p. 160. -this charge charitably but falsely extended by the Bampton Lecturer to the whole Improved Version, p. 161. note.—The Editors have no defence for supplying the word God but the authority of Moses, Exod. xx. 1, p. 162.-The Dean places this text in the list of unacknowledged variations, ibid.-ad- mitting, two hundred pages afterwards, that it is actually acknowledged, p. 164.-expostulation with the Dean upon this extraordinary conduct, ibid.-The Dean warned to be more correct in his assertions for the sake of his friends, p. 165. note.-Sad dilemma of Bishop Burgess in conse- quence of relying on the Dean's veracity, ibid..-The bi- shop's expedient for diminishing the sin of reporting an un- founded calumny, ibid. p. 166.-The Dean forbears to re- mark on the unnoticed variations in the remainder of the verse, p. 166.-Remarkable liberty taken by the Primate with the original, p. 168.-Specimen of what the Dean's animadversions would probably have been had the Editors taken the same liberty, p. 169.-Recapitulation of charges proved by the Dean, p. 171.-No one but the Dean would regard them in any other light than inadvertencies, p. 173. The Dean pretends that he has more and worse examples to produce, p. 174.-challenged to produce them if he can and dare, ibid.That so little can be alleged by their most bitter and vigilant enemy, is an indirect but powerful testimony in favour of the Improved Version, p. 175.-The Dean's la- boured criticisms of little value, p. 176.-when opposed to the host of evidence in favour of the Improved Version, p. 177. -The incorrectness of the Dean's assertions will induce re- flecting readers "to believe what he shall prove rather than "what he shall say," p. 178.-The Dean complains of the irksomeness of his labour in compiling his work, ibid.-Agreed that nothing could be more irksome except the task of read- ing it, to which no human patience is equal, p. 179.—The character of the Dean's book, ibid.-No one could have writ- ten it but himself, nor he without a powerful motive, ibid.- The Dean's friends report, that he has the promise of the next Irish Bishopric, ibid. note.-University of Dublin marked as the silent sister, ibid.-How far her character is redeemed, as asserted by Counsellor Phillips, by Dean Magee's publication, The Improved Version, whose Editors are so virulently ca- lumniated calmly states doctrines and criticisms without any reflections on those who hold opposite opinions, p. 180.- THE BAMPTON LECTURER REPROVED. DEAR SIR, LETTER I. Or the annual discharges which have lately issued from the Bampton battery with so much zeal and so little effect, to silence the voice and to impede the progress of truth and good sense in their accelerated and irresistible march, one of the least formidable is that of the year 1818, under the direction of the Rev. C. A. Moysey, D.D., rector of Walcot, Bath, chaplain to the Lord Rodney, and late student of Christ Church: and it is in submission to your judgment rather than my own, that I have consented to suspend for a short time my attention to subjects of much greater interest, in order to examine the charges which this learned and reverend writer has retailed against those unfortunate objects of his pious indignation, the Unitarians. B If indeed Unitarianism were to be crushed, and its professors were to be silenced, by vehement declamation, and by loud, repeated, and exaggerated charges of ignorance, of audacity, of pride, of infidelity, of blasphemy, of fraud, and falsehood; by false and calumnious allegations of rejecting the word of God, and of wilfully garbling or perverting, corrupting and mutilating the Scriptures of Truth, by gross misrepresentations of their principles and rules of judgment, and by miserable insinuations of disaffection and disloyalty to the government and constitution of their country,the game is up-the contest is over-the Bampton squadron is victorious-Unitarianism lies dead in the field-and the banners of Orthodoxy wave in triumph over the ruins of the exploded sect. For in this mode of attack the learned Lecturer vies with the most virulent of his predecessors and in such weapons the champions of Unitarianism possess but little skill. If truth and reason and revelation fail them, they surrender at discretion; their strong hold is lost. Among other charges alleged against the Unitarians by this reverend Lecturer, they are accused of denying the popular doctrines in "no very de"cent terms." What those terms are which have given offence, he has left his readers to guess; for it is not his custom to crowd his page with proofs. And I believe he would find it difficult to produce examples, even from the most unguarded Unitarian writers, of charging their opponents as infidels, blasphemers, and wilful, fraudulent, and audacious perverters and corrupters of the Scriptures, and the like, with which his own pages abound. But perhaps that may be very decent in a Bampton Lecturer which would be very unbecoming in a Unitarian apologist; and I for one am content to allow that learned body and their allies a monopoly of this decorous language. But the Unitarians may well cease to wonder at the treatment which they receive from the reverend Lecturer, when they see the manner in which he has conducted himself towards his venerable superior, the bishop of London. That accomplished Prelate, in the severe and unfounded animadversions which he has passed upon the Unitarians in his Primary Visitation Charge, has inadvertently represented "prostration of the "understanding as indispensable to proficiency "in christian instruction." And though, in the Letters which I humbly addressed to his Lordship, in order to remove this unfortunate prepossession from his mind, I endeavoured to clear christianity and its doctrines from the stigma which appeared to be cast upon them by this unlucky expression, it never entered into my imagination that the words |