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Art. V.—Remarks On The Arguments Advance...
commit sin , nor incur guilt , of course they ca & not stand in need ofsalvation or be liable to con- demnation . The conclusion of his argument is , A profession of repentance and faith are _f _inessential to baptism , _church-membership and salvation . But adults only are the proper subjects of baptism , church-membership , and salvation . _" We know not what will be thought of the present work by _pasdobaptistsi ; it certainly de-
Art. V.—Remarks On The Arguments Advance...
mands their serious attention : by many it will be thought unan - swerable , and there can be little doubt that the baptists will con siderthe author as having render ed essential _service to their cause The preface contains some re . marks upon a pamphlet in fa
vour of infant baptism , by D _^ Tyreman _<> of the I ale of Wighty which we see not how that gen * tleman can refuse noticing , vvith _^ but giving up his argument , _!>•
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Richard Carrie _^ Esq . —Rev * Jonathan _Scctt _,
At Islington , May 19 th , RlCHARp CORRIE , _Esq . in the 8 _ad year of his age . He had enjoyed an uncommon degree of good health throughout life , and was blessed with an easy dismission from the cares and anxieties of mortality _.
His legacies were numerous , and shew that he had imbibed the generous spijit _, of the religion of Christ , He left 50 L to the Rev . N . Jennings whom he latterly attend ed _<— iool . to the Rev . H . Worthington , to distribute among ten Presbyterian ministers _*—50 I . to tne Rev . J . Evans- _« -and 100 L for him to distribute
among ten General Baptist Ministers _^—besides certain sums to various charitable institutions in London and its vicinity . As Mr . Corrie was not a Baptist , his lega _* cy to the General Baptists , is a proof of cy to the General Baptists , is a proot ot his liberality of sentiment . Indeed he always spoke in terms of abhorrence of every species of religious bigotry . He was a great admirer of _Doddrid _^ e and has told the writer of this sketch _, with what pleasure when a boy he cou _^ _ducted him from his lodgings inCaibrutf *
Street , to preach at the Weigh House , ncaf London Bridge . There was something peculiarly friendly in JVIr . Corrie _* s _tem- _* per and disposition . He had always a mall party at the commencement of every year , chiefly composed of minis-r ters of different denominations _.
ri > e ri _^ ht of private judgment was With him a _matter of the fn st importance . And though he disliked _cxircmes of
every kind , he was an _inltghtensd and y _^ r * friend of our _cemmtn Christianity . J . E . _; May a 8 , the Rev . _> ONATHAIf SCOTT , ( commonly called _Captain _Scotfy ) of Matldck , an eminent _preacher among the _Calvinistic _Methodists . He was born at Shrewsbury , Nov . I 5 _, ' i 735 j > being the second son of Richard Scott ,
' religious F impressions , and had , what h _$ himself afterwards called , his " religi _^ ous fits . " It was his daily practice , while in the army , to read the psalms and Ies _~ _sqns of the day . At length hearing , b y Accident , the late Mr . Romaine , in a Village in Sussex , he entered entirely into Methodist views , and from thencefor _^ Esq . a captain in the army . He followed his fathers profession , and in the 17 th year of his age became a cornet in the 7 th regiment ,, of Dragoons : he _contU nued in the army _xy years , and rose to the rank . of a captain lieutenant , tie wat in Lord George _SackvifleV cavalry , at the battle of Mindeh _^ in 1759 . rom an early period he was under religious impressions , and had , what he
wards gave himself completely up to hif rciigio , us convictions . He began to preach it is supposed , at the beginning of the year 1767 , in Leicester , He held pri _* yate spiritual conferences with the _sol- _» diers of hi * regiment . And wherever the regiment marched , he went as . _^ preacher * _l'he union , however , of the two characters , of military officer _^ n 4 mcthodist preacher , was soon found t «
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 661, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/41/
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