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Printed in the yeerc 1646 . This was a weekly paper , published by the royalists . It contains horrible details , though large allowance must be made for a virulence of party spirit , apparent in every page . Having narrated the sufferings of some royalists , in other parts of Essex , the journalist proceeds with Ian account of the demolition of a
window of painted glass , in the church of Cht ' Imsford ., by the Sectaries of that town , who , though the churchwardens tookc dow n the pictures of the blessed Virgin ,
and of Christ on the crosse , and supplied the places with white glasse , yet did rest very ill satisfied p ) itA > this partial ! imperfect Reformation . P . 23 . The story of ibis outrage is prefaced in the fol
lowing manner : — , " Qhklmesford is the Shire-towne ,
4 Uid hath in it two thousand coin , municants . All these are parish , loners of one and the same church , for thejre is but one church in this great towne , whereof at this time Doctor Miche ^ son is parso n , an able and gpdjy man . Before this
Parliament wa £ called , of this numerous congregation there was not one to be named , man or wo . man , that boggled at the Common . Prayers ^ or refused ' to rereceive ihe sacrament kneeling , the > posture to which the C ^ u rqh of England ( walki ng in the footsteps of venerable Antiquity ) lipt ^ by A , ct of Parliament inipyned all
those which account it their hap . piness to be called Jtier children . JJ ^ t sin < je this magnified Reforroa . tion was set on foot ^ this towne ^ ^ as , indeed most corporations , ^ j jvvjb flnde b y experieixce , are hwseries of faction and rebellion , ) is so filled with sectaries , especially
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Brownists and Anabaptists ^ that a thircLpart of the people refuse to communicate in the churchliturgie , and halfe refuse to re * ceive the blessed sacrament , unless they may receive it in what posture they please to take it . They have ampngst them two sorts of Anabaptist 6 The one they call the old men of Aspersi ? because they were but sprinkled . The other the new men or the Tmmersi , because they were overwhelmed in . their
rebap ti « at ion . " P . 22 ,, The former p . art of ( his quotation , shgws the rapid progress of the anti-episcopalian party ^ during six years , after ths , n ^ eting of the Lo ng * Parliament at the end of 1640 . But my principal design in sending you the extract , was to enquire of your readers , acquainted
with the history of the Anti-Paulobaptists , whether there were really , any description of them in those times , who practised sprinkling in opposition to immersion . I hav £ read , though I cannot recollect where , of a scheme
attributed to Dr . Watts , that the Paedobaptists should give up their unconscious subject and the Anti - psedobaptists sacrifice their mode , certainly a most unequal " barter . If Dr . Watts proposed such a compromise , it is evident that he had found very little , if any , scriptural au ^ hori / y for infant baptism * I have heard , though I know not
how tp crediMtye story , tpat ther « ace Protestant dissenting ministers , whq bave arrived at that . conclu . ^ jsion , * and yet practise infantsprinkling . How such ritejmakcrS ) jf , 3 uch there he , can answer to tJJ ^ etr satisfaction , the question , 4 S what mean you by this aervice ?"
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1 & 2 , Early English Antipmdobaptists .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 152, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/16/
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