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fused to read the burial service ^ or to permit any other clergyman to officiate at the in torment of an m ( a » ty because it had been
baptized by an Unitarian . The grave " having been opened among the deceased's relations previously to the TH ' usaU the corpse was at the time appointed deposited , and no customary riio performed .
Th . e subject is before the Committee of Deputies for protecting the Civil Rights of the Dissenters , in London , and it becomes desirable to ascertain how far
Dissentcrs are de epen dent on the bigotry or caprice of any clergy man for internaent , —ai \ d \ yhether the not paving used the words prescribed in the Common-Prayer , will justify such refusal , any more than the emission of the sign of the cross
tfrn invalidate complete baptism * Although we may consider it 4 ? siTal > le that burial places be provided by all Dissenting Societiesy it will often occur , that fajaailv connections induce the wish of , being deposited with relations
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CRITIQUE ON THE BRITISH CRJT 1 C *
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
Norwich y am , Nov . 21 , 1808 . It is a fortunate circumstance for the cause of religious truth that one
publication exists in which the ignorance of bigots and pedants can be exposed and held up to public contempt . I allude to the conduct of the Reverend Gentlemen who
fdite the British Critic , in their re * view of ' * Browne * s Selections from the ^ Scriptures , " a % vork which \ ras noticed in the first volume of rhe Repository , ( p . 88 . ) They say , * ' ^ P foi * work , we c ^ n
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who were meinbcrs of the esta * blished Church . Many thousands have been bap . tized into the name of Jesus Christ
only ; and whether the minister looks with suspicion at the verse m Matthew so similar to the spurious text in John ' s 1 st Epistle , or whether he declines the use of it lest
those who hear him should not fully comprehend the sense in which he understands it , many more are likely to be baptized in the same manner .
The c < Father ^ Son and Holy "Spirit" is a deviation from the letter of the law , and if Mr » Griffey be justifiable in objecting to one baptised into the ruvue of Jesus ? Christ , he or others may think themselves justifiable on the slightest deviati on *
Presuming that the above intelligence will be accepted as an apology for my addressing you , I remain , Your ' s respectfull y ^ T . DRUMMONJD .
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only pronounce our most unqualified disapprobation . " They add ^ " It is somewhat suspicious ^ that the compiler does not chuse to mention either in his title or introduction , any of the versions from which he has derived his ma *
terials . ** This unfortunate sentence at once discovers , that their examination of this work extended no farther than the title-page and introduction , for had they troubled . themselves to have looked into the body of the work , they would have discovered that at the com *
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yl & . Critique on the British Critic *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 716, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1706/page/24/
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