"It has always struck us with astonishment, that many of those who maintain the most rigid notions of inspiration, and exclaim most vehemently against the glosses, evasions, and forced interpretations of hereticks, should have discovered so little solicitude to ascertain the true text even of the New Testament, and have felt no more dread, than they seem to have done, of adding to the word of God. To what is it to be attributed that even at the present day, 1 John 5:7 is quoted in proof of the doctrine of the Trinity, and even taken as a text of discourses; when it ought to be known, that it has not more authority in its favour than the famous reading of the seventh commandment in one of the editions of King James' Bible; thou shalt commit adultery. The same may be said of Acts 20:28. and 1 Tim. 3:16 which ought to be no more quoted in their present form as proof passages, by any honest and well instructed theologian."
As Quoted in The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, June 1811
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