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WITH WHICH THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW L\ CORPORATED.

LONDON, SATURDAY EV_ENING, JANUARY 19, 1839

In the early ages of the Christian Church, not translated ; and tl.iv
is the case with numbers where the Hebrew words hare been re-
kined by the translators in Greek. I call upon Mr. Todd, and the
writer of the Critical Enquiry, to favour the public with the solu-
tion of the above difficulty. If they cannot, they are not qua'iti d
to translate from the Hebrew." • • • • • .
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iDECLARATtON
Agreed upon at a Special Meetirrr of the
LEICESTERSHIRE A CeINDEI'ENDENT

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CHURCHES AND- MINIST.BRS,
Held at Gallowtree-gate Chapel, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 18:10.
HE cause of IteligiGlis L'berty having been of
late assailed With titiustial i•ifttlehoe; the Support of the State
Church by Dissenters having been enforced in numeretis instances
by distraint, and now at length the despotic power of Ecclesiastical
Courts having been invoked to harass and overwhelm us, we deem
it due to those who have already suffered, to our own character, and
to the cause of Christ; publicly and solemnly to record our Senti-
ments thereupon. _
We hold the Gospel to , be God's proclamation of love and mercy
by Jews Christ to man, addressed to his heart, capable of being en•
forced by no human aUthoflty, effectual to sate only as it ia volun-
tarily embraced, imposing upon those to whom it is sent iespnitsi-
mliieliott of
yto God only for their treatment of it, and repudiating the
employment of fraud, fOrce, and violence in its support.
We maintain that. the' laws of man cannot supersede the laws of
God; that %that is ih itselfiintightept4s cannot be made ,just by
beeOming legal; that no body of men have the right to pltititiCr
others in maintenance of their own system of belief, simply becauee
they have the power; and that seizure of property and imprison-
person by the Church, in the name and for the ends of
religion, as it is a violation of Christian spirit and a direct trans-
gression. of Christia.n law, tan never, by any legislative power on
earth, be rendered other than offensive to God.
We observe that the State, which gives authority to Episco-
palians to levy and enforce Church-rates, does not compel them to
use it. It they fall back upon it, they do so voluntarily. Law is
the instrument, but they are the agents of these unrighteous pro-
ceedings. The deed, with all its guilt, is their's who could, by
voluntary subscription, prevent it, but do not ; or who, privately
condemning it, do not, by public protest, wash their hands of all
participation of what is done in their names.

• _
" Surely, every one who believes in the sanctity of the word of
God, for the reasons above given, will be convinced that It never
was subject to those casualties which ever attend on the writings of
men, and will not hesitate to say, that the most confi:med infidels,
from the time of Porphyry of Celsus, to the modern Deist, could
Sot have broached a more impious and untenable dogma—than the
sacred original " Inspired Volumes were corrupt."
"As the University is implicated, by the Syndics defraying the
expense of the publication called A Critical Enquiry, it vr:,l
something new in the annals of that high seat of learning, and
will be heard with astonishment in the Continental Universities,
that a book containing eueh dangerous and infidel dognms, calcu-
lated if believed to shake the faith of all Uhristendom, is printed at
the expense of the Syndics of the University of Cambridge, written
by a man who says, that the third person singular of the verb is
also the participle active."—Extracts.
aßeason why. the Roman Catholic Emancipation cannot be granted,
without imminent danti-e,,,r. to, and violation of, the principles of the
Protestant Constitution as settled at the Reformation. 1828.
" From the commencement of the Christian Church to the time
of Constantine, the Church of Christ was pure, it was to that pe-
riod 'Apostolic; but when Constantine turned Christian he
brought into the Church, an inundation of wealth, Paganism, and
worldly grandeur, which like a mighty flood, swept away the truths
of the Apostolic Church."
" The Papists refuse to take the oath of supremace, as they
will not allow any other potentate to be supreme, except the Pope."
—Extracts.—See The Sun, January 17th.
" The Hanover Gazette admits that the Archbishop of Cologne
has sent a courier to Berlin, demanding to be transferred to
Cologne, orMunster, but makes no offer of submission."—Herald,
Sept. 17, 1838.
" The Pope and the King of Prussia.—The following is the
address of the Pope to his consistory on the erection of the Bishopric
of Algiers, pronounced on the 13th of September "
• • • , •
" Tho Holy Father then raising his pastoral voice with Apostolic
Freedom, calls earth and heaven to witness his complaints against
the detriment done to the Church in the Kingdom of Pru:sia."—
The Morning Herald, Oct. 3, 1838. •
Imperial Rome governed the bodies of men, but did net extend
her empire further. Papal Rome improved upon Imperial she
made the tiara stronger than the diadem; pontiffs more powerful
than praetors ; and the crotier more victorious than the sword.
She devised a system so complete in all its parts, for the subjuga-
tion both of body and mind, that, like Archimedes, she asked but
one thing, and that Luther denied her—a fulcrum of ignorance on
on which to rest that lever by which she could have balanced the
world.—Lacon.

- Such being our deliberate convictions, we deem it our duty re-
spectfully but solemnly to warn members of the Establishment,
both clerical and lay, that they will be answerable in the dreadful
day of account for offences against charity and righteousness, per-
petrated under their sanction, or with their connivance, in the
name of law and religion. We call upon them, by the duty they
owe alike to God and man, to abstain from these oppressive acts,
by which the peace of their conscientious neighbours is invaded,
bitterness of feeling engendered, and Christianity exhibited to the
world in colours not her own. We protest against their right to
compel our support of their system of faith and discipline. We
pretest against that law which assumes to give them that right ; we
protest against the administration of that law in every case : but,
above all, we record our most indignant protest against the exist-
ence, the form, and the grinding cruelty of Ecclesiastical Courts.
(Signed on behalf of' the meeting),
GEORGE LEGGE, Chairman.

We repeat our entreaty to his Majesty the King of Prussia, as
" wisdom, like a pure and bright conductor, can render, harmless
the brutum fulmen' of the Vatican, by following the precedent of
the illustrious dead—to give the Italian priest' a similar denial.
" The last ten years have brought with them a century's strength
to the Roman Catholic cause in Ireland. To win back heretical
England to the Romish fold, is undoubtedly, the great, the ultimate
object of the Irish Roman Catholic party. Let those who dread such
a result, bestir themselves forthwith to subvert a policy, of which,
that result must prove a necessary consequence."—Herald, Oct. 5,
1838.

" He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,"—(Powlett's
Reasons for beim!. a Christian) therefore a brawling nation,
" hereditary bomismen," whose natural position makes it the
soundest sense of policy (no other consideration) to keep them in
amity with us—let us, that she may be a worthy associate, so sound
the trumpetof reform—o: rather of "ref nlnaCol a ithin herself" (cur
mightiest feat " by glorious valour won," being fough t on foreign
soil), that they may be . . . .

" Great, glorious and free,
Fairest flower of the earth, brightest gem of the sea."
The battle array which we present, in promoting and defence o:
just immunities—is the combination of "master minds," "the death-
less part of some who died too soon;" not fifteen thousand fighting
men" which most ennobles a nation ?

" Papacy (' that infallibility loth so hedge it in') like Pedantry,
prides herself on being wrong by rules; would rather stumble in
following the dead, than walk upright by the profane assistance of
the living. She worships the mouldering mummies of antiquity,
and her will is, that they should not be buried, but embalmed. She
would have Truth herself bOw to the authority of great names,
while common sense would have great names bow to the authority cf
truth."

" May the diffusion of knowledge, the increase of religion
and morality, and the augmented happiness of the people, make
the present reign (era) more glorious than triumphs in the
field have rendered those that preceded it, and peace hare her vic-
tories no less renowned than war. "

Reasons in Favour ;f 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 lees
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-
tages attewdant on such a measure. Let us, on the other hand,
entertain a lively, and, I trust, a well-founded hope, that those
who govern 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 Soeinianisrn, the Sociniaas 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, bad 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 "rhe Library, Lambeth
Palace.' "

" Such were the birth and parentage of our received version, as
asserted by Mr. Todd himself, and proved by his own testimony !
No further comment on it is necessary." Suo sibi gladio hunc
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 •
to `y performance, was never obtruded on the public."
The charge of Socianism is a mere stale backnied 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 Locke ?
If such artiices 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."
" On 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 consideretions ; 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 Vicar of Wrexhill : Mrs. Troliope.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.
(Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.)

Areepagetica"—" New Translation of the-Holy Bible"—" Anti-
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Lee, M. A."—" The Critical Examination"—" Church Union. A
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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 Knight and 'Co., Ludgate-
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Chairman, the Right Hon. Lord Brougham, F.R.S., Member
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