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mte * Christ Jesus , were baptized into his death . " If we have at all eatesad upon Christian instruction , the death of Christ mast have been brought before us as a subject of such leading importance , that it might be said to be . for the sake of that subject , with express reference to it , that we were baptizec \ whence we are led to the following allegorical representation of the change produced by the reception of the Gospel . Now we observe , that the
Father , the Son , and the Holy Spirit , may be very well taken for doctrine oc < instruction upon those subjects , which in fact are those upon which iastruefcbn was particularly needed—the mutual relation of God and Christ illustrating ^ the character and dealing * of the Father ; the dignity and authority of the Sob ; and the gifts of the Holy Spirit , which were promised to the faithful as the means of convincing others , and a constant witness to them * selves of the truth of what they had believed .
These were the subjects respecting which the apostles were to instruct their converts , or into the name of which they were to baptize them , and thus the text is , we think , best understood , not as a formula for administers mg a rite , but as a direction to the first ministers of the gospel ^ which recognizes baptizing as the ordinary mode of receiving disciples . " Go ye and make disciples of all nations , baptizing them into the name of the Father
and of the Son , and of the Holy Spirit ; " the particulars respecting God and Christ , expressed by the words Father and Son , and the promised gifis of the Spirit being the points respecting which instruction was most needed — " teaching them to observe" ( this is part of the same sentence , and the word teaching expresses nearly the same as baptizing into the name of ) " whatsoever I have commanded you . " We should think that an attention to the connexion of the twentieth with the nineteenth verse might sufficiently prove that the latter cannot be accounted a formula .
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Art . III . —Observations on the History and Doctrine of Christianity > and , as historically connected , on the Primeval Religion , on the Judaic * , and on the Heathen , Public * Mystical ^ and Philosophical ; the Latter proposed as an appendix to the Political and Military History of Greece ^ By William Mitford , * Esq . 12 mo . pp . 192 and 198 . Rodwell and Martin .
This little volume has been some time before the public ; but we are induced to take this late notice of it , on account of the many valuable criticisms and remarks which it contains , and which derive wei g ht from the learning and celebrity of the author . Mr . Mitford is the well-rknown historian of Greece ^ His merits in that character are disputed . All admit his erudition ; but his prejudices in favour of the aristocracy , which he scruples not to- avow , have given an evident bias to his pen , and determined his
estimate of character * and events . He writes Grecian history as an English Tory , and as if he were fearful that his pages ghould be soiled by mechanic thumbs or turned over any where but in the drawing-room . A greater fault could scarcely be attributed to an historic writer . Still , his learning , his independence of former historians , and his earnestness and foboriousness , gjlve no small value to his work , which will always be consulted by scholars * , though , if we read the book of fote aright , it will never be much used by the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1827, page 211, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1794/page/51/
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