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    as ^ eli as u Broadstairs , Mr . Christop her , " Now , I ask for information whether these worthy pastors , with their respective flocks , have undergone any recent change of religious sentiment ; or whether the preacher , jn making up his Unitarian List , forgot his definition , and so unwittingly proclaimed to the world the truth that Ariamare Unitarians : thus

    proving himself to be under the operation of gospel charity . Mr . Richard Wright , 1 observe , has assisted in drawing out the JLisf , but he is a liberal gentJeman , and has no concern with the contracted definition of

    Unitarian given on the occasion . Each of the above ministers , or some of their congregations , may probably call for an explanation . I am far from imputing to Mr . Harris intentional misrepresentation . He says , "

    Inaccuracies pointed out he will correct . " Indeed , it is possible that , belonging to that class of modern Unitarians who have predicted the speedy extinction of Arianism , he has , in the superabundance of his youthful zeal to swell out the L , ist of Unitarians in

    England , Hcotland and Wales , fondly mistaken the prophecy for its accomplishment ! Expecting a ready insertion of these remarks in your valuable Miscellany , which I have taken from its commencement , I beg leave to declare m \ seJf a lover of truth and

    consistency , as well as AN UNITARIAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL . P . S . It is a curious circumstance that Mr . Christopher , of Broadstairs , here proclaimed as an Unitarian , entertained so great an antipathy to

    Unitarianism , as to have declared from the pulpit , not long ? go , its alliance to Deism ! An intelligent gentleman of the Gravel-Pit Congregation , Hackney , happening to be present , called on Mr . Christopher at the conclusion of the service , and before the congregation , for an explanation . Mr . Christo pher , to his honoui \ acknowledged ™* inaccuracy , and will , no doubt , be ftiore liberal on future occasions .

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    Clapton , S | R » August 5 , 18191 OUR Correspondent ( p . 406 ) Ywill , I trust , excuse me if I asp Won that there is no Act of ******* to declare «« Dissenters '

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    sprinkling or dipping' * to be u baptismV but that the whole question remains within the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts . Under such sanction , he will , I believe find that ** the clergy have done in this affair *

    only what they ought to have done , and that u for their conduct" they have the most satisfactory precedent . 1 here take for granted that Mr * Read is correct in stating that the " young lady" who applied for confirmation * " had only been baptized in the name

    of the Lord Jesus" Had there , on the contrary , been evidence that the words used , * ' twenty-one vears ago , " were , in the name of the Father , and of * the Son , and of the Holy Ghost , his charge against the cler ^ v would have

    been fully established ; and * ' the bishop of the diocese , ' * with such evidence before him , by deciding "that it was safer to go through the baptismal form , "" would have opposed himself to the opinions of bishops , of no light authority , in other times *

    The Established Church * or , as it has been more correctly expressed , the Established Sect , regard , as it is well known , all baptism which is not administered by an Episcopal clergyman , as lay-baptism * On the validity of such baptism , there has been , within the Establishment itself , no small

    controversy . The earliest of which I am aware , was in 1573 , between Dr . Whitgift , afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury , and the celebrated

    Puritan Cartivright . The latter , in conformity , as it appears , with the judgment of the foreign Protestants , thus argued , in his Defence of the " Admonition to the Parliament : ' *

    u As for the baptizing by laymen , considering that it is not only against the word of God , but also founded upon a false ground , and upon an imagined necessity , which is none

    indeed , it moveth me nothing at all , although it be very ancient 5 for so much as the sacrament dependeth chiefly of the institution and word of God 3 which is the form and , as it were , the life of the sacrament , of

    which institution this is one , and , of the chief parts , that it should be celebrated by a minister /* Dr . Whitgift , in his " Defence of the Answer to the Admonition , " thus replied : 0 Whereas you say , that the mi-

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    Mr . Rntt on Anabaptism in tte Church of England . 721

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1819, page 721, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1779/page/5/