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    I thus shew first from the celebrated Salinas ins , a man of such great name among the Reformed . { Ex EpistolA ad Jus turn Pacium sub nomine Simplicii Verini . ) ' In the two first centuries nobody received baptism , but he who , being instructed in the faith , and imbued with the doctrine

    of Christ , could give testimony that he believed , on account of those words , * He who shall believe and be baptized / Therefore , the first thing was to believe : thence arose the order of catechumens in the Church .

    The perpetual custom also then constantly prevailed , that the eueframt should be immediately given to those catechumens after baptism * Afterwards an opinion prevailed , that nobody could be saved , unless he had

    been baptized ; and thence arose the custom of giving baptism to infants . But because the eucharist was given to adult catechumens , as soon as they were washed with sacred baptism , without any space of time intervening , it was instituted that this also should

    be done to infants , after the introduction of Infant Baptism / " Thus far Van Dale , who was not of the clerical profession , but all whose works are full of erudition . * I have already alluded to the opinion of Socinus , and other learned

    Unitarians in Poland . To the opinion also of the accomplished , critic , Grotius , an allusion has also been made ; and his opinion was , that Infant Baptism might be practised , and was practised pretty early , but pot by Christ or his apostles . An not . in Matt . xix .

    Sensus est veniant ad Christum , ut instituantur , non ut baptizentur , nisi postquam vim baptismt intellixerent . " My intention was , Mr . Editor , to have subjoined a few thoughts on Mr . Belsham ' s sense of Infant Baptism , in

    reference to Tertullian , and a critique on the word norintp as used by him , together with some remarks on Mr . Belsham ' s " important testimony of Justin Martyr , and his quotations from I re n ye u a and Origen . But these matters , I perceive , must be deferred . . D ,.

    ? II pratiqua qctte science ( M&decine ) arcjC suoc&a , et se fit une reputation 4 a »» * 1 * Europe par * a profood © eruditijoa ,- ~ Nouveuu Dictionnaire Historiqut .

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    Sir , Swakeleys , Jan . 6 , 181 £ K PERlVf IT me to assure your Chichester Correspondent [ Vol . XIII . P- 749 , ] that nothing he has written on the subject of my * ' Bible Only " School at Binham , has in the * ' least

    annoyed" its well-meaning , hdwever mistaken patron . He has warrantably enough , perhaps , bestowed upon it a title , which it seems however , it did not deserve . The w hole difference of opinion that obtains between us , is indeed , 1 am willing to hope , no more than this : that while I am content to

    seat my little plebeian catechumens " at the feet of Jesus and his apostles alone , he yvould place some ApoIIps beside them of the same way of thinking with himself , so long as they were under my exclusive jurisdiction ; for beyond that moment 1 profess to give

    them up again to their parents . Ax little , I trust , will he be , in return , ** annoyed" by my Anti-isms of every description , if , in a spirit which ** thinks eth no eyil * ' of any other opposed to it , I venture to record my conviction , that , were every " note and comment "

    now extant on the Bible , committed to-morrow to the flames , the religion of Christ might somewhere or other , in this our enlightened day and generation * arise from their ashes in a purer form than any it now exhibits in any single established or non-established Church in Christendom .

    W ith regard to m y projected plan of a place of worship , it is indeed , 1 fear , still more Utopian than he justly represents it ; for it by no means professes to aim at inoffensiveness on the ground of being alike and in common

    acceptable to every denomination of Christians . Its avowed object is an approximation to the apostolic model of religious homage : et jure aut injtiri& comprehends invocation of the Saviour of the world . The

    Unitarian would have to tolerate Idolatry under a roof beneath which the Trinitarian had connived at the blasphemy of not addressing the Son as " an equal person with" the Father ; while The GOD and Father of our Lord Jesus

    Christ was alone ultimately addressed as " the Author of every good and every perfect gift , " as ** the GOD above all , as well as through and in us aH , " the u one Lord , " * the " made * 1 Cor * viii * 6 .

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    T Mr . ClcuJte on his School for Scriptural Christians . 39

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1819, page 39, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1768/page/39/