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Now ,, in these several propositions , my sole view and drift is , simply to derive some rational satisfaction on this one point * viz . Whether the purpose , the design ^ intention ^ appointment , and efficient will of God , is implicated in , or attaches to all temporal events—every separate or individual incident , without exception ? Q #
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REPLY TO J . T . ON BAPTISM . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository * Sir , The motive which dictated the communication of your correspondent J . T . ( p . 298 ) is truly praise-worthy , as is also the
temper in which he writes ; but it appears to . me his ideas are far from likely " to reconcile professing Christians to one another in respect to the subject" in debate . Indeed * Sir , it seems from this writer ' s modesty of expression asif he himself was
aware that the ground he had taken was not quite tenable j and I cannot think he will be offended if we recognise in his paper the language of an humble inquire ^ in which very light do I wish to be considered when replying to his observations . Now then if the term " teach" signifies to disciple ( which I readily concede ) then do persons become disciples , in consequence of being taught , which teaching , however , let it be
remembered , is essential to faith , and connected with it : see Mark xvL 15 , 16 . But J . T . confounds the order of things when he asserts— ' * The apostles , in their addresses to those who were brought by their preaching to become believers in the only true God , would of course acquaint them with the history of Jesus Christ , &c . " Tome it is difficult to conceive , without
a previous acquaintance of this , how any could become believers at all : see Rom . x , 14 . According to the gospel account , individuals were not made disciples by baptism ; but , being made disciples , were baptized by way of publicly professing that character : see John iv , 1 . After comparing the church of Christ to a school , J . T . asks— < c Considering the Lord Jesus Christ , then , as both every
way qualified and divinely commissioned to be the teacher of mankind , will it not follow that it is alike proper for adults ^ as such , to enter themselves , by submitting to the prescribed rite of baptism among his professed scholars ^ that they may immediately apply their minds to his sacred lessons , and for believing parents to enter their infant offspring by the same outward rite among his scholars , and then engage themselves to do what they can that their children may actually become acquainted
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530 Reply to J . T . * n Baptism .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1806, page 530, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1729/page/26/
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