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Jordan * and he * made and baptized more disciples than Jofea . The apostles also were Baptists ; all the first Christians were Baptists ; and the purport of the commission , * Go , teach all nations , baptizing- them / &c , was to make all the "WwM Baptists . So far , then , from being a modern sect , as some have insinuated , we claim antiquity &n our side , and are as a sect coeval with Christianity itself . 44 If it should be said that we ape a sect everywhere spoken against ; so were the primitive Christians We wish to resemble
them in our sentiments , ia the constitution of our churches , in our religious duties , in the piety of oar hearts and the holiness of our li ^ es * If , therefore , in our views and practices we are so unfortunate as to differ from our brethren of other denominations ,
yet we wish to live in charity with all men . We claim liberty of conscience for ourselves , and we allow that others have an equal right thereto . To think and let think is our motto . We trust the gates of heaven will he open to the good of every persuasion amongst Christians , and think it our duty to hold every good man in
esteem . 44 We shall now proceed to the immediate object of our present meeting , and may the society , at whose request we are now assembled , be steadfast , unmoveable , always abounding' in the work of the Lord , forasmuch as we know that our labour is not In vain in the Lord . ' %%
This speech was heard with the most marked and respectful attention . Mr . Kingsford then proceeded to place the stone , which had an appropriate inscription . A stanza , composed by Mr . Head for the occasion , was then sung- ; a nd Mr .
Pound closed the whole by humbly imploring Hie Divine blessing * on the efforts of the society , and , that having commenced they might * be enabled to proceed in the work until they should bring forth the top stone with shouting . "
The company , consisting' of persons of various denominations , then separated , apparently gratified with the ndvelty not only of what they had seen , but of what they had heard . I cannot finish this article without
offering , through the favourable medium of the Repository , the gratefnl acknowledgments of our society for the pecuniary aids which it has received infavour of this undertaking * . Our applications were first sanctioned by the fa Ho wing gentlemen :
Rev . S . Kingsford , Rev . John Evans , Mr . George Sinallfield , Rev . Robert Asp I and , Rev . W . J . Fox , Rev . Dr . T . Raes , Her . James Gilchrist , Rev . William Mood , Dr . Crombie , and Joseph Holden , £ «< A } . ltd it affords us no small gratification to And the names of Mr . Belsham , Mr .
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Aspland , Mr . Fox , Dr . Thomas Rees , Bjfh William Trend , Mr . Christie , &e ., amongst the number of subscribers . We cannot omit to notice , that a TJirit ^ u rian Peedobaptist gentleman residing in London , but occasionally visiting * Dover ,
gave the first guinea ( which is not his only contribution ) to this undertaking ; also , that we received a donation of Jive pounds ^ being * part of the first year ' s proceeds of the Parliament Court Fellowship Fund , and a like sum from the Tenterden
Fellowship Fund . We . have further the pleasure to state , that Mr . Thomas Reed , building * surveyor to Government for the coast of Kent and Sussex , on account of his firm attachment to Unitarian principles , has vevy kindly and gratuitously drawn our plans , and superintended the work . All this proves to us that the shade of difference between ourselves and our
Unitarian Pacdobaptist brethren , does not preclude that harmony of principle and union of effort which we conceive to be inseparable from the true spirit of Unitarian ism .
B . MARTEN . Dover ^ March 20 , 1819 . P . S . A list of the subscribers will hereafter be subjoined to the depository j but as there is yet a considerable deficiency to be made u p , we beg further to solicit the aid
of any friends whose contributions will be gratefully received , and may be forwarded either to Mr . G . Smallfield , Printer , Hackney ; or to Mr .-William Kingsford , Buckland , near Dover , Kent .
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Unitarian Chapel , Flushing . The Unitarians at Flushing-, in Cornwall , having" engaged the Old Methodist Chapel in that place , at a moderate rental , it was opened for Unitarian worship on Tuesday , May 4 , when Mr . Wright , who
is on a mission in that county ^ delivered a discourse on the leading doctrines maintained by Unitarian Christians , principally with the view of shewing that they are clearly the doctrines of Scripture , and can be expressed in the words of Scripture without either addition or comment . A
respectable audience attended . The following extract from a communication received from Mr . Wright , since his arrival in Cornwall , may not be unacceptable to our readers : " The progress which Unitarianism has
already made in this remote corner of the island , is gratifying and encouraging * When I first visited Cornwall , about eight years since , I found one Unitarian ; when I revisited it , about four years since , 1 found a little church of Unitarians ; but
they had no convenient place to meet , and were under the necessity of assembling in a room , badly situated , at the end of the town , [ Falmouth z ] now they have
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33 S Inidligtiic& > - ~ Unit&rian Ch&pel , Flushing .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1819, page 338, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1772/page/58/
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