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< Facts are stubborn things , " To the Editor , Sir , I am inclined to think that the great majority of my Unitarian brethren feel assured of the authenticity of the Baptismal Commission as recorded in the existing copies of St . Matthew ' s Gospel . Now my own fixed and only
not unalterable conviction is , that the words " in the name of the Father , ' * &c , are even more unquestionably than those in St . John ' s Epistle an interpolation . And the ground of that conviction is , that the text is point blank opposed to the uniform testimony of Scripture history as to th . 3 fact of baptism in the apostolic age , and utterly irreconcileable with the Apostle Paul ' s repeated references to that fact and his arguments upon it . I am unwilling to trespass on your pages by dilating on these grounds of objection , and my purpose will be answered if my opponents will oblige me by
replying to the following queries : —In what form do they believe that Baptism was administered at the period immediately subsequent to our Saviour ' s ascension into heaven ? What evidence have they that the apostles were cognizant of a commission to baptize in the three names ? How do they reconcile St . Paul ' s mention of Baptism , Gal . iii . 27 , Rom . vi . 3 , et seq ., Ephes . iv . 5 , 1 Cor . i . 13 , Col . ii , 12 , with the fact of baptism having been administered in or into more than one name ? Feb . 25 , 1827 . J . T . CLARKE .
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To the Editor , Sir , Feb . 19 , 1827 . A few months ago the public papers asserted that a man had been lately burnt to death in Spain for heresy . When opinion had expressed itself pretty loudly on this incredible outrage , the Spanish authorities circulated documents denying the fact , and in your last Number , p . 144 , your respect for " truth and the character of the age , " induces you to consider these documents as entitled to credit .
These documents have only added mendacity to cruelty . The fact is incontestable , that in the month of August , in the year 1826 , a Catalonian schoolmaster named Brosquil , who lived in the Barrio de Ruzasa in the city of Valencia in Spain , suffered the penalty of death on the solitary accusation of " Deism . " At his trial a strong opposition to this barbarous sentence was made by the minority of the judges , but their resistance was over-ruled
by the majority , and the decree for his execution was confirmed by the mandate of the King . Every species of contumely accompanied the unhappy but most courageous man , ( for he refused to retract or to disguise his opinions , ) both on the way to and at the place of execution . The saints and images were veiled in all the streets through which the procession passed , and the crosses which are always attached to the gallows in Spain were torn
away . The difficulty of communication with Spain has hitherto prevented more minute details from reaching England , but a time will doubtless come when this and other deeds of darkness and ferocity will be exposed to the world . J . B .
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f ON THE BAPTISMAL COMMISSIONS
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" REPORTED BURNING OF A JEW . "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1827, page 264, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1795/page/32/
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