Excerpt from The Existing Monopoly, an Inadequate Protection of the Authorised Version of the Scripture: Four Letters to the Right Hon. And Right Rev. The Lord Bishop of London, With Specimens of the Intentional, and Other Departures From the Authorised Standard, to Which Is Added, a Postscript, Containing the Complaints of a London Committee of Ministers While, however, the writer has been taught, by this blessed to fear no human opposition, or opprobrium, in the cause of Gt Author, he can with great sincerity state, that he has not will nor without great personal pain brought forward any fact that seem to have the tendency of depreciating others, or that can givr pain; and that he long hoped to be excused this unwelcome He adds, in the words of the earliest Vindicator of English Holy I take God, which alone searcheth the heart, to record to m science, if I wrote of all that I have written - aught, of any evi pose, of envy or malice to any man; to stir up any false doctr opinion in the church of Christ; or that I should be esteemed or had in price above the least child that is born. But to weed out all that our heavenly Father hath not planted, and to bring down all that lifteth up itself against the knowledge of the salvation that is in the blood of chl'ist.-tindal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.