VINDICATION

OF THE

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY:

IN A LETTER

ADDRESSED TO THE

REV. DR. WORDSWORTH,

CHIEFLY

IN REPLY TO HIS LETTER TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD TEIGNMOUTH.

BY WILLIAM DEALTRY, M.A. F.R.S.

EXAMINING CHAPLAIN TO THE LORD BISHOP OF BRISTOL; AND FELLOW OF
TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

"If, on the one side, we shall be traduced by Popish persons at home or abroad, who
therefore will malign us, because we are poor instruments to make God's holy truth to be yet
more and more known unto the people, whom they desire still to keep in ignorance and dark-
mess; or if, on the other side, we shall be maligned by Brethren, who run their own ways, and
give liking unto nothing but what is framed by themselves, and hammered on their own anvil;
we may rest secure, supported within by the truth and innocency of a good conscience, having
walked the ways of simplicity and integrity, as before the Lord."

Epistle dedicatory to King James, prefixed to the Bible.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. HATCHARD, BOOKSELLER TO HER MAJESTY,

OPPOSITE ALBANY, PICCADILLY.

(ADACA) 5491 .387

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Printed by Ellerton and Henderson, Johnson's Court, London,

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE alterations which have been made in the present edition, are chiefly of a verbal nature: some pages, however, have been added, some have been cancelled, and several transferred to the Appendix.

A mistake, which occurred in page 49 of the former impression, has been corrected. The application for Bibles, stated to have been made by a Welsh Bishop in 1790, was in fact made by an English Bishop in 1800: the argument remains the

same.

It was intimated (p. 21) that the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge had passed a second resolution about their edition of the Welsh Bible; this also I now believe to be an error, and the passage is erased.

have

Should any expressions of harshness escaped me in the first edition, I hope that they are all expunged. Upon this subject, it is probable that different persons will entertain different opinions; I have acted according to the decision of my own judgment.

Hertford, March 8, 1811.

W. DEALTRY.