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were antecedently bound to the Author of their beings and there * fore we should be very blamel worthy to them , if we neglected to do it . Thus the children of
the Jews were , without their own consent , introduced by circum * cision into like privileges , and furnished with similar assistances or performing the duties they owed to God ; and Moses commanded that people , Deut . vi # 7 » These words which I command thee this
day , shall be in thy heart ; and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children , and shall talk of tAem when thou sit test in thine house , and wh ^ en thou walkest by the way and when thou liest down , mnd when thou risest up .
Quest ., III . How is baptism to be administered ? Answer . The mode is not precisely " directed ; and ,, therefore ,. I thinky is left to discretion , and may be performed in the manner in which baptism ,
i . e . washing , is usually practised in ettch country . After our Lord had exhibited before his disciples , sufficient evidence that he is the Messiah , and they had , by the wiouth of Peter , declared , once
and again , their belief in him , as the Christ , the Son , of God , I concei v ^ he baptised them into that profession , and thereby investeq thjem with what he calls a , part ^ i . e » a share or portion with him p and ihat he did it by washing their
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feet , a very common mode of wa $ fiing amqng , ^ he jjfews . And when Peter , being informed that it was to give him a part with his master , desired that not his feet only , but his hands and head also
might be washed , he was answered that a partial washing was suffix cierit for the present purpose * . Perhaps I may be somewhat singular in this interpretation ; but it appears to me to place this part
of our Lord ' s history in the clear-, est and most striking lighf ; and there are many crrcunutances of the evangelist ' s relation of it that deserve particular attention * See John xiii . 1—lOi
Quest . IV . Are not the children of Christians in some respects holy , and have an interest in th * kingdom of Christ ? Answer * Un * doubtedly . God * by thfe prophet Ezekiel , ch . xTvi . £ 0 , 21 , challenges a special property in th «
children of the Jews , ^ nd the Apostle ( l * Cpr . viL 14 . ) declares that ihe children of believers , even whea one only of the parents is such , are holy ; by which , in scripture language is meant belonging unto Qod 9 or devoted tb his service * lf the ^ refore , there be any institution
appointed a $ a sign , or token of this holiness , ceftatnly , such children have a right to the sign , who hav « the thing signified .
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Original Letters qfi Jp >; . Priestley ' s . 15
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1812, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1744/page/15/
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