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    Btttef of W * f B # tfet& e&o&pt hid own . Asicte fr * ntf * th « l * HfeffrfV * Ehter B . fe an exctelteht' rti&n , Sad Wferfc he 1 * 0 * fettered by nUbefttt'Mtt- '^ iMucnsorib ^ d creeds , he woutft wiqtiSstie * i&bly bfe a liberal and ti # eftil pt-e&ehar * € < II . GENERAL BAPTISTS * /

    " 1 . Seve&th-Duy Bmpttees .-SFhU denomination being of European * ori * gin , perhaps your knowledge of it is sufficient j hfrwevet-j I will observe * they have an association called * Seventh ^ Day Baptist General Conference / consisting of ( according to their

    minutes for 182 i ) sixteen churches , and embracing' perhaps between two and three thousand members . Oyring to the inconvenience of observing- the { Seventh Dfcy in cort ^ munities where the First Day is more generall y considered the Christian Sabbath , tms peo ^ pie had greatly decreased until 1805 *

    since which they h&vfc realized some very salutary accessions to their communion . For a more particular account of them , you are referred Co Elder Itobert Biimstde * pastor of the SeveftthJ > a . y ParrtSeular Baptist Ohurch , n&kr DevoiiBtrire Stjua ^ e , London , between whom and Elder Bailey ,

    the Sect-et&ry * ff t&e Cfeet * aral Conference hGffc , there fa a regular co * T 6-p ^ ndeneev Mr . Bailey has re presented hie people to be Trinitarian , Avhich ife iiot the c ^ e as it regards the m as a , people , » dmfe of ** he&r preachers bei n ^ ^ trenuou ^ Umtanans . They publish ^ t ! Qaaneriy M «^ aeine , ^ hich is priacipally d&r&tdd to trtte dissem ^ attmi of their owa fatout ^ te (^ iews . There

    wealao a 1 \> w r ^ her ^ httrohes scattered around 4 n varfrMis tp&ns of « he United States , whi ^ dh a ^ -e > n species of that order , but being believers in aft open cbromunloti , && » they &t < e wot associated ^ vvfeh 'the < Ggitt # * l < taaferfenoe .

    f < - » w i&iavPtohGipfy m <* ptist » . - ~ f \ i s sect of © apoifit 8 id ^ t ^ i ^ es > of about ffl-^ t 6 € tti ckWheB in $ he limited Swte » , ^ nd * he ptpbftWe num ^> er ^ f < jom miinicmtte 4 s t £ Oa fPtiey ^ v ^ e ^ d to 'derive iheir rtartie l ^» the ptfecetHng ^^ rt ^ ff th ^ ^ ixth Chapter ef ll ^ bPe ^ s ,

    to ^ vhwih they pvof ^ &fe ^ clo » e «** he TOfifce . ; la tioctl » ine i % tey ore A » ti-CttK vltri ^ iu , Hrt 4 ISM ^ d&ttriili * mA in ^ tbftir » cotttna « tttoTn they are Btfiiifed to * helr o ^ e ^ Mitt < . i ^ n 4 ><« rde ^ e « el » - ** vefiy . Tlne 4 ittj > o ^ tion ctf hwiia * Wb-^ qw ^ t tb fccftrtls ^ is th ^ ooht an

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    indispensable pr& * i « 4 m § iM tb &ti * iik membership . Fot ^ u few yea ^ a past they appear to have experienced «( o material increase « r diminufion . c < a Frve-mill Baptist * . ^^ -The first ehurch belonainff ; to this denominatixm ehurch belonging ; to this denominatfitm

    was planted in the town of New Ihir * ham , State of New Hampshire , in thd year 1780 ; since which their increase has been , and continued to be , rapid and regular , and they are now scattered throughout various parts ef all the Northern States . Oa examination

    of th ^ ir minutes for December 1822 , I find reported 213 i $ gular churches and 10 , 025 members . la sentiment they are Arminian and Trinitarian ^ but their communion is accessible U > Christians of regular standing , of aU denominations . The ministers of this

    « ect , like the Methodist circuit preachers , accustom themselves to travel ttad preach , though some of them attend more particularly t © the superintendence of the churches . . Their churches are organized into what they call Quarterly Meetings , and . these

    Quarterly Meetings erect , by delegation , a Yearly Meeting , in which the more important business of the deaomination is transacted . A few . years wiil find this a more flourishing people than the Catvinistie Baplisjts , if we may be permitted to found our jiidgvts

    ment oil present ^ prospec . " 4 * Christians . - * -TWs * eet has always been considered a speeies trf Baptists , as they administer baptism in rao » 0 tber way than by

    immersingthe candidate . They qimtee Acts xi . 26 , xxvi . 28 , 1 Peter iv . 16 , in defence of the name which they hare assumed , ^ wad l ) y ^ wtiich they seek ©« ly to know atad l » knowti as a people 5 regarding a ! 1 others as the invention of men . The

    -first church of this deno * niBatit > Q was pkmted in Portamotifth , New Hampshrre , m th » year 18 Q 3 , aiace which tbey have spread exteneawte ty thwwigbout nearfy all the Northern ^ and » S o « 5 bern ^ Eastern and Western Staftea , and are now the most nu « icrous o £ ^ aU

    the Gefrieral Baptists . ' They havenow itbout two hundred ttrjrf ^^ chtMDcJiea , uad their cotnmnliitellts &te computed at-between \ &j ® 00 and 20 , 000 . Afony of tll ^ lr charches are ^ large . and jcespectable ; and the whole of them - « e » 6 rg « niKed > ittfca

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1823, page 349, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1785/page/37/