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peaefe . In case of liis refkisatl'to make the oath and declaration , he is liable to a penalty not exceeding £ 10 . nor less * than 10 s , should he continue to preach after due notice . It is obvious that our lay brethren weed be under no apprehension in giving our glorious cause their
assistance from the pulpit , as the existing regulations may be said to be scarcely worthy of consideration , and I am not aware of an instance ? where a magistrate has interposed his authority , though I am acquainted with many preachers who are open to it . An OccAsrotfAii Lay Preacher .
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Sir , June 17 > 1819 . AS an honest and fair dealing advocate for Christianity , I cannot see why Deism is to be always so severely animadverted upon in this country or any other , while Athanasianism so notoriously escajpes with impunity . The Deist is a professed unbeliever in Christ , and is not the
Athanasiaii ? The one denies his miracles : the other his word . The one gives him the lie direct in his teeth , when he avers that he is not the missionary of God : does the other less , when he affirms that he is . His equal ? Whence this inequitable treatment of two different kinds of
unbelief ? Is it that , while that only ridicules Christianity , this would make Christianity itself ridiculous ? CLERICUS .
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Cainscross , * Gloucestershire , Sir , June 5 , 1819 . CERT AIN wags in this neighbourhood have been making themselves exceedingly merry of late , at the joint expense of two very opposite parties : the ^ High Church and the Unitarians . You shall have the
facts in two words : a young lady , member of a family which has in a measure supported the Unitarian Chapel at Gloucester for some years , * This hamlet does not take its name from an Unitarian that I know of , ( though
4 me of our Rev . sponsors has called us ct Cainites , " ) the good people being- generally < c orthodox , " or " evangelical , " so much so , indeed , that some have expressed their u astonishment ** at a pious and benevolent lady having- visited under my roof .
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Has lately been admitted to the sati ^ mental table of the Church of England , through fh ^ medium of confirmation an-d baptism . Now , as the latter ordinance had been performed about twenty-one years ago , as appears by the register of the chape ? , the subjecting the party to an effusion of water a second time is neither
more nor less than Ana-haptism . " What can have induced the clergy to do as they have done in this affair ? And " what precedent have they for their conduct ? " These questions are puzzling to a plain man , Mr . Editor , and if 1 am to give a satisfactory answer to my ** inquiring 1
friends , ' you or some one of your worthy Correspondents must help me to it . All the information I can give you for your clue is , that the Rev . gentlemen who were consulted about the means and mode of making a " Christian" of the young neophyte were themselves at a loss . Of course
they knew that by Act of Parliament , Dissenters * sprinkling or dipping is considered as baptism ; and this to the minds of Act-ofParliament Christians , it is conteuded , should havebeen
sufficient , and they should have regarded the affair as finished . But not so . They could not think of confirming , as a Christian , one who had only bfcen baptized " in the name of the Lord Jesus , *
for this would have been confirming one in error as they deem it . In their distress they applied to the bishop of the diocese , whose decision was to this effect , " that it was safer to go through the baptismal form . " The Scriptural Christians talk of theapostle ' s " one baptism" which seems to
exclude divers washings : " the Actof-Parliament Christians reply that the apostle says also " one Lord , one faith . " Therefore , when persons come to acknowledge other Lords by the reception of another faith , I conclude they hold themselves consistent in adopting another baptistto also .
I could hardly persuade myself that this farce had really been acted— -I mean a direct Ana-baptism , but supposed that no previous baptism had taken place ; ( knowing that the perpetuity of the ordinance is denied by many Christians ^) and to sat isfy my doubts , proctired of my friend , the minister of the chapel , a sight of the
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406 Deism and Atltanmiammi ^ AnahaptisM in the Ch urch of England
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/6/
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