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fact , that - *• they knew Mr . Reed had bten baptized with water in' the name of the Father , Son and Holy Ghost . " ( Defence , p . 50 . ) Of the Jate discussion of this subject , occasioned by a clergyman ' s refusal to bury any whom he regarded as
unbaptized , and the judgment of Sir J . NichoN * you have giveti a full account ( V . 19 B , 199 ) . I vvill only add , that the Deputies * acting on thai judgment * have never ventured to interfere , unless it could be proved that the form in Matthew was used on the occasion .
1 have , I am aware , gone further than was necessary to acquit the clergy in the opinion of your Correspondent , but 1 thought much of the above might be new to some of your readers , especially as 1 find that t ) r . Towers , who wrote Cartwright ' s Life in the
Bing . Brit ., ( Ill- 280 , ) has not mentioned the subject ^ there * nor in his account of Cartwriyht annexed to Whiti > ift ' s Life ( Brit . Biog ., III . 362 ~ S < H ) . In I 7 b 7-and J 784 , when Dr . T . wrote , the question about lay baptism was , I believe , entirely at rest .
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while he commends " his avowed enmity to ecclesiastical usurpation . " CBiog . Brit . IV . 27 . ) Tlie " ludicrous and profane manner' * which the iVonvonformist , on the authority , 1 suppose , of common fame , attributes to
Collins , ill accords with the complexion of his life and the circumstances of his last hours , as they are described in the Biog . Brit ., not only by Dr . Kippis , but in the previous life by Mr . Brougliton , a clergyman who
had certainly no predilectiou for the author of the Essays *• On Freethiuking / ' and " On the Thirty-nine Articles . " Had this story been regarded as authentic , it would , probably , have been mentioned ( IV . 26 ) with Winston ' s severe censure of his " old 1
frieud for having received % ' the holy communion . ' * CoNius ' s " compliment to custom , " if he used the expression , was , I think , as justifiable as the conduct of the late Duke of Grafton , who is declared ( VI . 4 () 9 , 931 and 721 ) to have frequently received the communion * the form of which must
have been abhorrent to tfie opinions and feelings of a serious Unitarian . However Collins attained to magistracy , ho appears to have exercised it with a persevering regard to the public interest , and if examples were
sufficient for such a purpose , professed Christians have abundantly justified reputed unbelievers in doing what an unprejudiced observer is liable to cousider as evil , that good may come . Of this , L think , that eminent
Nonconformist , Sir I \ Abuey , afforded a striking instance . In the Memoirs annexed to his Funeral Sermon ^ in 1722 , we are told ( p . 77 ) that * ' occasional communion with the Established Church he
accounted lawful , and all aloug practised it , when expressing his charity , or holding a capacity for any considerable service made it necessary . ' * He had adopted the accomodating scheme
of his early pastor Mr . Howe , which Defoe , whom Mr , Howe unjustly charged with having ' written bis piece against Occasional Conformity , in order to reflect upon Sir Thomas
Abney , " very ably exposed , as may be seen in Biog . Brit . ( V , 27 , 28 ) , Yet when the Bill against Occasional Conformity passed in 1712 * and Sir Thomas , urged { Mem . p . 57 ) by €$ the Resident of Brunswick , who vigo-
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Mr . Rutt on Coliim ' s and Sir Thomas Alney s Conformity , ¦ 728
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The Nonconformist ( p . 428 ) will , I am sure , excuse me if I attempt a correction of the note to his very informing paper , and hazard a remark upon it . ** Lord Shaftsbury , " the reputed « ' unbeliever , " and the con *
temporary of Bolingbrohef was never " Lord High Chancellor . * That office was fi I led , in 1672 , ( a short period of lenity towards Dissenters , ) by his grandfather , who was , I apprehend , a state Christian , and us
exemplary in that character , according to a well-known story , as that most reliyious king , his royal master . The author of the Characteristics does not appear to have filled any office which required the qualification of
the communion , unless it were " the Vice Admiralty of the County of Dorset , ' from which , according to Bfo g . Brit . ( IV . 268 ) , he was removed u the accession of Queen Anne . "
It has been doubted whether " Antliony Collins wrote against Christi-<* nity , " or # rathei % against what Osb j > rne denominated Parliament Faitfu A rchdeacon Blackburue , who is well knovv ii to have written the Memoirs p Tho mas Hollis , there considers loflhuf * t < iii ^ wiu t (> revelation a m » tter far from being out of doubt j ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1819, page 723, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1779/page/7/
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