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with a Jew , shall be imprisoned and expelled this free town . ' " You may recollect , that before Buonaparte entered Germany , and declared the Jews citizens and members
of society * they were treated as common beasts , and on passing through several towns , had to pay the sum per head which was paid for stvine . ** The war being ended , the Jews were led to expect , that the meeting of the Sovereigns in Congress would have been the prelude to a redress of their former grievances , and that they would have been allowed to partake of those rights and liberties which are enjoyed by their Christiau neighbours . But , alas ! the war being ended , the Sovereigns forgot their
promises '; they forgot that Jews were human , that they are the work of the same Almighty Creator ; they forgot their many services during the war , and left them to the mercy of the waves , to the mercy of those merciless beings , the Senate of the town , which is styled the Free Town of JLubeck .
" Will any one believe that such scenes have been witnessed at the close of the year 1818 ? Are these the good things for which the people of Europe have fought and bled ? Is it thus that the promises of an
Alexander , a Frederic or a Francis , are to be fulfilled ? 1 hope before this meets your eye , the subject will have reached the ears of the members of the Holy Alliance , and that they will convince the hundreds of thousands who are now looking forward , with dreadful expectation , that those promises so solemnly made , were made in sincerity . "—The Jewish Expositor for Feb . 1819 , p . 72 .
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On Mr . Belshams " Plea for Infant Baptism . " ( Continued from p . 39 . ) Sir , YOUR readers have already seen the high opinion entertained by your late Christian Su ?* ve ?/ O 7 9 of Mr . Robinson ' s History of Baptism ; and , that even your Correspondent Mr . B . thought it " a truly learned work : " by which intimation he wished it , no doubt , to be understood that he had
not only read it , but was fully competent to decide on its character , far more competent than your other Correspondent . But , it is evident , that Mr . B / s compliment was a mere set
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off ; aiming to shew , not only that he was a competent judge , but to make it appear that , though condemning , he was full of candour , and that , though exasperated , he could be just . For when your Christian Surveyor hinted that Mr . B . ' s " babe sprinkling " was not the primitive Christian baptism , it was easy to perceive , that those bees stung him . For my own part , judging only from Mr . B . ' s exhibitions on this
subject , in your Magazine , and in his Pamphlet on Infant Baptism , I must be forgiven if I say that I somewhat doubt his competency , it appearing to me that , if Mr . R , in one or two points is not quite right , your Correspondent is on others , as already hinted , far more wrong .
Much respect as I think due to Mr . R / s talents , I feel more for truth , and prodigiously more than for your Correspondent ' s pleas and dogmatical decisions . Had this censurer been one
properly acquainted with classical authors and ancient lawyers , with old historians , the Latin Fathers , and monkish writers , so as to be qualified to decide on the great differences of their style , he should be entreated to consider those differences , and his
capacity and means for information being admitted , his moderation and forbearance should be solicited . He should be reminded that Mr . Robinson , though a man of genius , had thrown himself into the situation of
an unfortunate drudge , doomed to wade through oceans of barbarous latinity ; and such competent person would admit , that if Mr . R . translated a word wrong in such a writer as Tertullian , he might hope to be
forgiven : nay , that he might commit himself , ( in the judgment of a particular class of critics , ) without breaking Priscian ' s head , ( according to the use of words in such writers , ) or any violent anti-Tertullianisrn . But tnea
humihtas can perceive , that these matters do not lie much in your Correspondent ' s way . As to the present writer * he has hitherto thought it sufficient to shew , that wh < it your Correspondent so anxiously , yet in vain , looked to find in the above History , ought to have been looked for in writers on his side of the questidn ; that much that he looked for was there , and something more , perhaps , than he looked for , or
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232 On Mr . BelshanCs " Plea for Infant Baptism .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1819, page 232, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1771/page/20/
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