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J > r . At *^ 4 sM « Z ^ ykes , ^ iat jfinest of &fl fine * # asdi * er 8 r on the > innocence of < H *© r > 1 atf * toM it is Sold At Jqhnson * s , fr'St . Paul ' s ^ urcli . TarA Xhave iievfer seen it , i&it , I so esteem the autfcefr . . : - v .: - December 2 ? .
I was interrupted here yesterday , first w company , and then by embracing the moment i ^ fore the' library was shut far the hoKdays , of an opportunity of looking out * a lot of bcoks for rny amuseptfntduring the time . I could not Msist the temptation , and a fine parcel of
scarce and invaluable old pieces I have got , Among others ' Here is " The Obeiiyence of a Chfysten Man , by * W . Tyndale . —Prynted ^ at Malborawe in the lande of Hesse , by Hans L . uft . The viii day of Maye . Anno . MDVIIf . *' Remark this one sentence , folio lxxri .
* Baptysm . The ptlthgynge into the water sygnifieth that y ^ e dye ,, and are buryed with Chryst a ^ &ncernyngethe olde lyfe ol synne which ?^ Ad * m . And the puU lynge out agayn sygnifieth that we rise agayne with ^ C hriste in a newe lyfe . " This is one ' wphc many proofs beyond all contradiction -which 1 have of the
Fact , that immersion in ordinary baptism Was the invariable practice of th 6 English till the Reformation / This is dated 1528 , and by . the , man who translated the JBibte . - I have now received thirty-four volumes . Several ai * e ol < J
farthing tracts , and oneliath forty-seven of these jewels in it . —I was speaking of Sykcs . I think him an incomparable Writer , and therefore 1 suppose his piece on the innocence of error is excellent ; but I do not affirm that it- is , for I never
saw it . This writer , and numbers- more * the first in . learning , piety and ^ critical tastej lie wholly unknown to most of " our ministers . Why ? They have mistaken * their true tfmi real characters , and instead of considering themselves disciples of truth , set up for defenders fit
faith . Hence i ^ is , you may ride a black hofte white . among that class of men , and not find a . single critic , 'i do riot call a sna * Jing pick-thank 2 critic . I call hum so who-h ^ th the talent ^ and the temper which constitute critical abifeiea .
One is not a critic : he hath no triinaL Another is not : he' is too idUv he will not labouiy A tbir ^ b is not : hia is too ?< % > he caqno ^ procure booka artd tu ~ TaLwTll ^ ¦* ? M ^ ' hfrpm * he h 2 ° atrai 4 of h ^ s rcputatian . A very great ^ nd of both % B £ » id vice is at tke bot . ) L lv
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torn of all . each cases , . except the first ; for if a igan have no ' natural talents , if he beypothing but a bundle , of sheer bo < w byisni , blubber for orthodoxy he may ; b ^ t criticise a sentence he cannot ; and i £ hfe temper wdre * as soft as his bfaiai I should hold him innocent . \ It , is the critical study of * the itexr Testamerijt , not of single words and phrases * , out of the whole , in connection ,
with geography , chronology , eastern , customs , languages , &c . that I think is the peculiar business of a disciple of truth . It is easy to make of boys defenders of faith . It is not easy to make even men sound critics . A man v / Jio ^ affixes guilt to any mode of thinkin g must not so much as sii&pect ' spn ^ popui ^ Jar notions which are called fui ^ lnental
to be false , or only true in || P ^ He must < not even be kno ^ jjSBk ) buy or read heretical -books . He iHSst never examine more than one side 5 that is to say , he mus ^ t rendtince all ^ reterisions ta that perfect liberty in which'his Lord placed hiin by his gcspel , arid he must declare for some species of tyranny You hold general redemption : another
particular : ' you hbldj | Bfeother guifty : so you begin in coolness and end in enmity . I hold you both innocent' in fegard to rile , as long as ^ " you differ only in thinking of this subject , and whether eithpr of you be ^ uilty , or-which of the two , or in whai ^ qegree , I leave to the
great ' Judge' *' to detertrrine . Both innocent in ' tny eye , I admit you to '^ 11 Christian privifeges ,: baptism ,: the Z » rd * 5 supper , the alms , and t the 6 jBfices of the chuijeh * The 'moment you ^ break the Klng peace , by any unjust action one ,, 1 st © the ot&er on account of your differ- *
ent sentiments , I hold you bqth guilty , not of believing prr 0 % but oibyevt acts ^ which disturb- ^ society . A man the * other day , a man of God too , and ^ -more than either ^ a JLondoner ^ wrqte ul word he was not stjipe he understood Robin- 7 son * 6 notion of the innocence of error , but he and hi * bre ^ hceH condemned it .
Now is not this abominable , Frienti T ? This . genius doiibted whether he under- * * stoexj whafc he had heard of , but he did ^ not . h ^ tac te to censure , it ! 1 > eg your , r > ard « in fo * scribbling ori at this rate . 'P «* ru « F \ lur b « a ii ^ uiiJiig uii au uus * au » .
. It snows very fast ^ I qu&fy wheJ ' ^ ter I have any coirfpany to ^ day . vr It is it popish festival ; but I being a protestant leave . the pope > to countenance hi « . , own franzies , I will not M disgrace myself by ^ tgoping to preach * o tfidm , wna ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1809, page 563, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1741/page/33/
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