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exercised by Romish legates jind delegates in this island ^ he adds , u to this hour , to keep it fresh in mind , Some twigs of that old scourge are left behind ;"
• which , " as he informs us in a note , may be found at Doctor . ? Commons . " We learn , from some of Sir J , N . ' s observations , that the English church acknowledges no
baptism as Christian baptism , which is not accompanied with " an invocation of the holy Trinity , " with the use of the form , In the name of the Father , &c . " ( 10—24 . ) Yet , according to the Acts of
the Apostles , the earliest and best teachers of the gospel baptised proselytes iatp the name of Jesus Christ . ' This apparent repugnance of their practice to pjtir Saviour ' s direction in Matt , xxviii .
19 * i $ ? we conceive , most happily explained by Archdeacon Blackburne , * who removes the difficulty by simply placing the words baptising them as a paren - thesis ; . an alteration which , as
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punctuation is discretionary , he was at perfect liberty to make . The learned judge may be right in describing a parish register as
having the nature of a public document , ( 44 . ) It ought , however , to be known , - that attested certificates of the birth of the children of dissenting uarents . *** cunuren or ajssenung parentsare
, strictly admissible , by way of evidence , in courts of justice : the point has been ruled , more than once , by unexceptionable authorities . Even an entry of the event in a family Bible , has been accepted , in the absence of am * pier or more technical proof .
Although the law does not require nonconformists to have separate places of burial , ( 42 , ) we cannot but look upon jt as highly desirable and expedient , that , where circumstances enable them they procure such spots for themselves ; the rather , as dissenters of every denomination seriousl y object to certain passages in the service used at funerals by the church of England .
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Obituary . —Rev * Daniel Jones . l 9 Q
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REV . DANIEL JONES .
i 8 xo , March 14 th . Died at Trowbridge , Wilts , in his 40 th year , the Rev . DANIEL JONES , the highly-esteemed pastor of the general Baptist Church in that town . He was the son of Richard Jones , woollen manufacturer , of Tre ~ fetch , in the county of Caermarthen , South Wales ; but sustained the loss of his father at an early period , being only four years old . But he was not left destitute by the good providence of God , for an a tender mother he found a friend
? Works , toL I . lxxxv—viii . ( Appendix to Lifc . J .
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who was ever anxious to watch over his childhood and youth , and thus lay the foundation of his future respectability and usefulness . Mr . Jones soon discovered a disposition formed to excite the notice ana secure the esteem of the serious and reflecting ; and his mother observing the bent of his mind for learn * ing and improvement , kept him at school , the best in that part of the country , till he was twelve years of age . In this seminary he was taught the rudi-*
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 199, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/39/
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