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which may perhaps arise in an inquiring ' mind with regard to the genuineness of the 17 th verse of the last chapter of Mark ' s gospel , the doxology at the close of our JUord ' s prayer , &c , &c . Nor shelter myself under the arbitrary exceptions which orthodoxy itself has taken under similar
circumstances , but proceed at once briefly to . state , or rather surmise , for the consideration of oihers what appears to me at present upon reiterated examination , a naturae j , udiciuin : but which I shall at
once most unrejuctantly abandon , uf > on its" being classed , not indeed ^ authori ty but evidence ^ amongst the mere opinion urn comments . In the first place then I refer to the context . Our Saviour tells
bis disciples , that all power ( or authority ) had been given him , and accordingly commissions them \ $ > make disciples of all the nations fey teaching them to observe whate ^ r he had commanded them ,
subjoining that he would be aL > yt * ys ivith them , &c . All is consistent and consequent . Here is UO hiatus or a semblance of one here . ; And now how inapt is the
^ n $ eriioni question ! What should bfcye led to any such injunction ? Because all power had been comiXJUntcated to him , his
lnissiona-* i # s were to baptize in or into his nvrofi ^ . No ! " into the name of the Father , tlie Son , and the Holy Ghost /* Whence this new and ^ strange doctrine' * that had
been ithtis suddenly brought to tbeir earrsrih They had heard incfefcdiaflhcfir Diviae Master ' s bap . fcizrng with j tlie spirit , but this Recollection would probably not abatk their' astonishment when they , were toldi that tbey t wese Sie ^ fel rs ^ \ m fut ui © tsrbaptisa m
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that spirit ' s rmrne . Atid what must they have thought of baptism i » the incommunicable name ? and in the name of two other person * ages apparently introduced pari passu with his . The memorable mandate would of course never be forgotten , or departed frorn ^ one iota 4 at least / All wonder
and obedience , they would think of nothing else for some time ! We shall see . — N , B . Not being :- , a Greek scholar , I can only submit to those who are , whether the government of the two participles
the imperative , without a copulative annexed to the latteror the pauses according to th ^ pointing of the authorized Versioii be according to the genius oi tbat language .
My next observation is , that no other evangelist has reporterf the extraordinary mandate , and that Mark , who records the prior part of the commission , omit * this ! ! ! Surely this fact alone is sufficient to excite something more than doubt on the subject .
Another very strong objection occurs to my mind in the form of the salutations and benedictions at the beginning and end of several of the epistles . Nothing can be more unlike than the two modes and characters of classification . .
But ihe decisive argument witii me against the authenticicity oi the passage now mooted is , and that on which I would willingly rest the Hsue with its advocates —• the simple , and as 1 believe , inL controvertible fact * that no stick
formulary was ever , in use in the primcevql age of Christianity , If testimony can establish any thing by negative evidence , baptism \ v £ u in the apostolic day exclusively administered in or into tha nsme
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Gokctuding C / aure of Matthew kx ^ Ivl . 19 , an tntetpot&tidn * I $ 3
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1814, page 183, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2438/page/47/
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