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lation may be defeated. But we propose to notice
very briefly,
III. The plan on which this translated
EDITION has been CONDUCTED. And here we
hasten to relieve the reader from a great source of
anxiety. He would naturally ask how he could
safely intrust a work debased with such gross and
dangerous errors, to the hands of ministers ; or in
fact how he could venture to read such a book himself
? We inform him, then, that these errors are
ALL OMITTED IN THE PRESENT EDITION. Every
one of the passages cited in pages 33 and 34 of this
Essay, is left out in this translation. We quoted
them in order to give the true view of our Author's
character ; and to show what errors may possibly con-
sist with a very high measure of the divine grace.
The edition we now republish is from the pen of
a Protestant English clergyman, the Rev. Richard
Russell, who carefully left out the passages of a
Roman Catholic character ; and printed, in an ap-
pendix to the last volume, the omitted words and
sentences.* These do not fill more than twenty,
out of seventeen hundred pages, (for such is about
the proportion,) of which the work consists, and which
of course are uninfected with these gross and lamen-
table corruptions. From these twenty pages we have
selected the worst passages, that the reader might be
in full possession of the truth of the case.
The translation was made about a century since ;
but we have not been able to learn any thing impor-
* Many other erroneous or ambiguous expressions have been
omitted in this edition, which Mr. Russell had overlooked.