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    m uch in the same way as th £ cry of < The Church is in danger 1 ' and < ^ o popery ! ' of more recent times . Where any in the opinion of others

    are re-baptized , it is because the partv so re-baptizing denies the vali dity of the rite as previously administered . No sect has ever professed to repeat valid baptism . Christians at different periods and in different olaces have had different views of the

    r * •» j * _ i i ji essence of baptism ; and where the essence was not , they did not think the name enough . If the essence were wanting , they , oi course thought no baptism , had taken place 5 and therefore , while others charged them

    with re-baptizing 9 they considered themselves as baptizing far the first and only time . " This the author shews by various facts , and that Anabaptism ? thus understood , existed long " before the Reformation .

    We would add , that tins tract opens with " Thoughts on Persecution /' The writer exhibits this demon in its most terrific form , " as living in c an clement composed of the sufferings of humanity ; ' these , " lie says , "

    constitute . tthe air he breathes , the sphere of his enjoyment . For music this Moloch desires passionate exclamations , shrieks and groans ; from splendid pageants and the fair face of nature , his eyes turn with eagerness to gloomy and crowded prisons , to insidious and sanguinary tribunals > the richest and

    most luxurious feasts present to him no viands so exquisite as pallid countenances , quivering limbs and bloody executions . Thus is it , when the spirit of persecution operates unconfroulled , when the power of the persecutor is commensurate with his rage

    where power enough exists , there first the characters are maligned , and then corporal and capital punishments are inflicted . Where power for the last is wanting , persecutors are contained to confine themselves to the first Recent events have rendered « t indubitable , that the spirit of

    persecution is not yet laid : but that , assarted with the ghost of its old £° n » p ^ nion , bigotry , whose obsequies ^ ve bee n celebrated , sometimes sofe&mly , sometimes ludicrously , it still ^ ks * ; and stares > and n > enaces , in s Prteof all the exorcisms with which lf * iai beexj a $ * aileci Unjust and nil-Provoked . attack * ** ou the reputation 01 clot * of ChnatiaiW which ha « not

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    deserved ill of the Church , shew * that some persons are either ignorant of the spirit by which they are actuated , or wittingly follow that which the scripture forbids . "

    Thus is introduced the mention of the tract , the review of which in the Evangelical Magazine , has called forth these animadversions . The reviewer , it seems , averts that it is not designed to degrade Uie Baptists by exposing " the vices and

    extravagancies of those who bore that name at Munster . " To which our author replies : 4 C It is probably , then , done to their honour . One man addresses another , < Sir , your ancestors were robbers arid murderers ; they perished by the hand of the hangman , at such

    a period . ' Turning to a numerous company , before whom this take& | > lace , he facetiously says , * I do not mean to degrade the gentleman , but merely to ascertain the period at which his family became notorious /

    If the pe rson thus insulted , were calrol y to reply , * Certain qriminals were undoubtedly executed at that time you mention , but they were not at all of my family , ' he would offer exactly the answer of the Baptists to their calumiators . "

    Themithor concludes his sensible and spirited Strictures with these concessions * " He does not wish to disguise , that his feelings have btfen strongly excited * and that he ha * sought for strong expressions : but h ^ trusts his feelings have been those of regret , and a disposition to complain , rather than of bitterness . He knows

    that he had infinitely rather bechargeable with tameriess than with rancour : and fain would he adopt the dyiag prayer of the Saviour , * Father , forgive them , they know not what they do / "

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    Revietv . —A Lay Seceder s Letter to the Bishop vfSt . David ' s . $ 73

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    Art , IIL-. il Lettet to the Bishop of St . David ' s , on « ome extraordinary Passages in a Charge delivered t < y the Clergy of hia Diocese , on September , 1813 . By a Lay Seceder . Johnson , 1814 . Pp . 24 . 8 vo .

    IT is well known , that the re * p £ al of the penal laws against the iwi * pugners of the doctrine of the Trinity , has disturbed the mind and inc ^ nrett the censure of the amiable and Iearn £ t | prelate who fills the see of St . DavidV * an effect not con&istent with this dia r&cter , under which he ia spok «» of

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 373, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/45/