The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-05 00:00:00

Reasons in Favour of a New Translation of the Holy Scriptures.
By Sir James Bland Burgess, Bart. 1819.
" The matter is highly deserving of attention. It is a question
of no less magnitude than the choice between a blind adhesion to
error, and a pure and perfect knowledge of the revealed law of
God. Which of these is preferable—which of them is it no less
the interest than it is the duty of every reasonable being to adopt—
cannot admit of a doubt. In such a case let us not be alarmed by
any vain fear of temporary inconvenience, which ought not for a
moment to weigh against the permanent and incalculable advan-
tage% attendant on such a measure. Let us, on the other hand,
entertain a lively, and, I trust, a well-founded hope, that those
who gt.vern our Church and State, they may be pleased to take
the matter into consideration, and direct an immediate revision of
our Received Version, or, what might perhaps be more recommend-
able, a New Translation of the Original Text."—Extracts.
A Reply to the Rev. Mr. Todd's Vindication of our Transla-
tion and Translators of the Bible. By Sir James Bland Burgess,
Bart. 1820.
" Of all the crafty inventions of the Devil to mislead and seduce
mankind, this perversion (Unitarianism) of the Holy Scriptures is
the most efficacious : it is rearing the standard of falsehood against
the revelation of Heaven (addressed to the Bishops of Durham and
Norwich); it is overthrowing the altars of the Most High, and
worshipping the molten calves of our own setting up ; it is poisoning
the fount of truth, and converting its pure and sacred streams into
corruption and death."
" If these be new Texts for Socinianism, the Socinians may
preach upon them as long as they please without much apprehen-
sion of danger."
" I certainly, therefore, should have considered them as altoge-
ther undeserving of a reply, had they not been employed as a vehi-
cle of much illiberal personality, to which the writer has affected to
give an additional weight, by ostentatiously announcing himself in
his title-page, as Keeper of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Re-
cords,' and by dating his preface from The Library, Lambeth
Palace.'"
" Such were the birth and parentage of our received version, as
asserted by Mr. Todd himself, and proved by his o,vn testimony!
No further comment en it is necessary." Suo sibi gladio huno
jugalo.
" Resting on this evidence, I leave this charge, and with it the
whole of Mr. Todd's Vindication of our authorised translation
and translators, than which a more meagre, crude, and unsatisfac-
tory performance, was never obtruded on the public."
" The charge of Socianism is a mere stale hacknied trick of
miserable controversialists, when they are reduced to the paltry
shift of calling names, in the hope of thereby escaping from the
effect of arguments, which they are incapable of answering. Does
not he know that it was employed against Le Clerc ? Did he
never hear of a similar charge made against our immortal Lecke ?
If such artifices were used against men of their exalted characters,
I can have no pretension to expect a more liberal treatment."
Some may say, Let us introduce no change, for we cannot
tell what further changes may be required of us.'—Had this been
listened to, neither the Reformation nor the Revolution could have
taken place, and we should have been still subject to Romish super-
stition, and to despotic power."
" ri the side of those who advocate the necessity of a New
Translation rests the whole weight of facts and arguments. Let
not these be counteracted by less worthy considerations ; let us not
leave to the enemies of Christianity the only weapons by which it
can be assailed ; but let us cordially and sincerely unite with the
learned and pious prelate Archbishop Newcombe, in the prayer
with which he concludes his preface, May the all-wise God, in
His fit time, dispose the Sovereign of the first Protestant Churches,
and of the most learned countries in the world, to complete his
true acts of piety, by promoting equal attention to the English
Bible !"—Extracts.

The Sun, January 28th, contains an appeal to her Most Gracious
Majesty.
*** The Vicar of Wrexhill : Mrs. Trollope.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.
(Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.)

Areopagetica"—" New Translation of the Holy Bible"—" Anti-
Deist"—" Replies to the Quarterly Review"—" True Age of
Christ at the Crucifixion"--" Classical Journal"—" Reply to S.
Lee, AL A."—" The Critical Examination"—." Church Union. A
Series of Discourses in which it is urged, that the great Christian
Duty, of maintaining Communion with the Apostolical Church,
remains uncancelled by the Tolerance of British Laws, 1811.
" Scripture its own interpreter; in a Series of Discourses tending
to prove from the connection between the Old and New Testament
that the Doctrines of Unitarianism, as it is called, are totally irre-
concileable with the general tenor of Divine Revelation." 1821.
London : Longman, Orme, and Co. Also, by Budd and Calkin,
Pall-Mall, Booksellers to her Majesty.
• " The Pictorial Bible." Charles and Co., Ludgate-
street, publishers of " The Penny Magazines of the Society for the
Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.'
Chairman, the Right Hon. Lord Brougham, F.R.S., Member
of the National Institute of France.

No. OLD BONDS MEET.
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The success of Mr. ELIA SOLOMONS' PATENT
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lens (the meniscus employed for Spectacles 40 years ago), and which
are highly injurious to the sight. These quack and absurd misre-
presentations, unsupported by weight or authority, might have
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it behoves one to inqure by what means, or on what grounds, their
signatures hare been obtained (if obtained at all) as sanctioning a
direct untruth by proclaiming such as " Newly-invented Spectacle
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