I will then indulge you for a moment with the full benefit of your assertion, that there is in this committee “_a standing majority against the church_;” and what will you gain by such a concession? The object, you must now bear in mind, is specific—the circulation of the Scriptures; that object, you must also recollect, is limited, within the kingdom, to the _authorized_, versions in use among us. The same sort of limitation is not resorted to in case of foreign versions, for the best of all reasons; that it _cannot_ in the nature of things be applied. The different Protestant churches on the European continent have their authorized versions, and _there_ the line of proceeding is direct: but where the church of Rome, or, as she calls herself _the church_, prevails; _there_, the Country Clergyman would scarcely wish the rule for circulating the _authorized_ version to be observed. As for those languages into which translations remain to be made, they are for the most part so remote from the ordinary sphere of study and commerce, that the office of executing such translations, and judging of their merits, must generally be consigned to foreigners; who probably neither understand the distinctions to which we annex importance, nor could be made to understand them. No questions, therefore, can arise in this committee, which might bring into discussion the points of disagreement between the church of England and Dissenters: so that if there should be in such committee, a standing majority of members _out of_ the church, that will by no means constitute a Standing majority _against_ her.