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it for a moment be believed that the apostles baptized in any other form than that enjoined by their Master ? And if they baptized " in the name of the Father , and of the Son , and of the Holy Ghost , " is their practice not absolutely imperative on the church ? The onlv alternative seems to be the
rejection of the text on the authority of the practice , or undeviating obse . quiousness to its precise dictate . But , to my mind , this only surviving pillar of pseudo-orthodoxy is as certainly baseless as that of the Three Witnesses , nor can I entertain a doubt that mature reflection on the admitted
facts connected with the case , would propitiate many a man ** of sound understanding and honest heart , " not only to the adoption of the conclusion , but to the more unwelcome duty of bearing his public testimony to its truth . The exclusive reference to
Christ , wherever mention is made of baptism 5 the absence , upon tli € same occasion , of every association suggested by the received baptismal form upon any interpretation of its import ; the moral impossibility ( surely I do not use too strong a term ) of any apostle familiarized to such a form , invariably breaking off with the Son at the beginning of every epistle ; the uniformity of the mention in an elliptical manner ; the .... But I am forgetting my object , which was not to reason myself , but " to set others on thinking . * I will therefore abruptly take my leave . R . D .
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liver sham > Sir , August 11 , 18 \ Q . FTER the eiample of Mr . . / % . Drummond [ Vol . VI . p . 75 ] and others , I send you as perfect a register as I can at present make out
of the succession of ministers to the Presbyterian congregation now assembling at the Great Meeting , Smithford Street , Coventry , which you may , perhaps , insert in the Repository . I have been for some years collecting information respecting the formation
of the society ; the persecutions they suffered ; the zeal and perseverance they manifested under the frown of the reigning powers ; their success and prosperity under various ministers t > f eminence in the Christian w 6 rld ; their falling off'in latter times , &c ,
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which , at a future opportunity , I may communicate to you , to make what use of it you may think proper . It appears highly desirable that the attention of the present race of Dissenters should be called to the
principle upon which our societies were founded , and what our forefathers did and suffered for the sake of a good conscience . The secularity and indifference of too many connected with our old places of worship , form a melancholy contrast with the zeal and liberality of their pious founders *
TYD . Presbyterian Congregation new assembling at the Great Meeting ^ Coventry ,
Dr . Obadiah Grew and Dr . John Bryan , ejected from St . Michael and Trinity Churches , had a numerous congregation in some licensed place at Coventry , in the year l 6 ? 2 , and
Dr . Grew continued to preach , though not without interruption , * tiJl the year 1632 , when the liberty was recalled . From that period to the year 1687 , Dr . Grew , when blind and compelled to leave the city by the Oxford Act , employed an amanuensis , and dictated a sermon to him every week
which being read afterwards to several short-hand writers , it was again transcribed and read at twenty different meetings of small numbers to avoid the penalties of the law . Upon King
James ' s granting liberty of worship , m the year 1687 > the Presbyterians at Coventry held their meetings in St . . Nicholas * Hall , commonly called Leather Hall , f where they made seats
* Which appears from a curious correspondence between the corporation of Coventry , the Earl of Northampton , Privy Counsellor to his Mtijesty , ( also Recorder of the city , ) and the Hail of Arlington , principal Secretary of Stsile to Charles II ., on the subject , recorded in tlie Common Council-book of the city of Coventry , a copy of which I was favoured with from Mr . Sharp , of Coventry , the Antiquarian , a respectable member of the Established Church .
f From an old MS . iu possession of Mr . Nicksou , of Coventry , a respectable member of the society of Friends , well known amon ^ antiquarians as a curious collector of every thing' connected with antiquity The ' late minister of Coventry having purehused a house in 1818 , nertr the itie <* tiri | f
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600 Ministers of the Presbyterian Congregation at Coventry !*
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1819, page 600, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1777/page/12/
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