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    gour , but liable to serious objections , in its application to infants , and to the sickly and infirm ; is it not probable from this circumstance that it was instituted with the view to the former only ? and is not this conclusion much more

    honourable to Christianity , much more agreeable to the character of its founder , than the supposition , that it was intended to subject the unconscious infant to obligations , concerning which he could have no knowledge nor choice of his own ? and that it

    should seem to avail itself of the bias which might be produced in its favour , from the apprehensions of approaching dissolution , to increase the number of its professors ?

    Does" not the moral purification , which is promoted by Christianity , result chiefl y from that intimate union between the views of mortality and of immortality , which it produces ? and is not this significantly expressed by being

    as it were buried in , and rising again out of the water ? whereas aspersion , while it conveys a much less emphatic idea of purification itself , bears no analogy whatever to the means by which it is produced .

    Should not submission to this ordinance at a suitable season , and in suitable circumstances , be regarded as a valuable privilege , whereby every individual who is capable of it , is in turn enabled

    to make an open and solemn avowal of his faith and good resolutions , and not as a painful duty , to be undertaken with reluctance , Ci yoke which can with

    difficulty be endured ?' ' * ?

    * See some valuable remarks relative to the subject Of % hc above queries , in

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    Nolo Episcopari- * Ditchling i Sir , Nov . 15 , 1811 . In that useful little book , the Protestant Dissenter ' s Catechism ,

    by Mr . S , Palmer , at page 34 , 2 d ed * in a note , 1 find the following sentence ; 6 fc Though it fe well known that the office ( of a

    bishop ) is zL very desirable one , and is generally sought after with great eagerness , the bishop elect solemnly declares agaimt having used any undue means to obtain it , saying , Nolo Episcopdri ^ i . e .

    I am unwilling to be a , bishop /* In Jacob's Law Dictionary , 2 d ed ., under the word Bishop , I hav «? found the following quotation z u Christian , in his notes om 1 Coram . 380 , says , that the supposed answer of a bishop on his consecration , Nolo Episcopari ^ is a vulgar error . " As these atu

    thorities are contradictory to each other , one must be incorrect . If any of yoifr Correspondents will be kind enough to inform me on which side the error lies , I shall

    feel myself much obliged ; and perhaps it may be useful to others . A . B .

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    A Collection of Facts relating tm Criminal Law . " VS ( hat a lamentable case it is that so many Christian men and wdmcp should be strangled on that cursed tree of the gallows ; insomuch as if in a large

    field a man might see together all the Christians that but in one year come to that untimely and ignominious death , if there were any spark of grace or charity in him , it would make his . heart to bleed for pity and compassion . "

    Lord Coke . Epil'tgue to his Thit 4-Institute * * the Preface to Robinson ' s Hist , of Baptism , and in p . 47—49 and various other parts of that important work *

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    26 ' u Nolo EpiscoparL 99—Facts relating to Criminal Law .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1812, page 26, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1744/page/26/