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    UnfrcValty , who have , ' somehow 0 "r Wher , got hold of the book of ** rules 'knd orders of the Particular Baptist fond , ' arid are extremely ' shocked at khe , absurdity of their conduct , the more so as they thought the Baptists were inalienable friends of the freedom

    of conscience . Your fund account I hope will l > e a corrective , and shew that all Baptists are not tyrants over their brethren . I am asked by the University several questions too hard for me to answer , as 1 . Had the London Particular Baptists of 1775 the consent of their

    country . brethren to compile a human creed for them ? Most certainly they had no . authority from Christ . 2 . VVhat makes Baptists so fond of the name and the creed of Calvin , seeing ; the barbarian burnt Servetus ,

    and denounced the vengeance of God and t \\ e civil magistrate against ail Anabaptists ? 3 f' How is the imposition of a human creed consistent with their profession of the sufficiency of Scripture , and the sole dominion of Christ over the consciences

    6 f his disciples ? " 4 , With what face can such men $ ls ¥ l for the repeal of the test-acts , seeing tjiey impose human tests upon one another *?

    5 . Have the General Baptists , offended * or ihgure-d the Particulars , that they have thus excluded them from all their favours ? 6 * . Is the-belief of election a virtue , or the denial of it a sin ; anil is the

    acknowledging of persons m God any lest of grace in the heart ? 7 . ^ "Are a peo p le likely tp improve , whose inquiries are bounded by Viuman creeds ; tmd is it not a strong / prejudice a ^ kt ml Calvinism that it needs such props- ? ^ oCc . top . I Svhfa their book of rnles and orders

    HatTbeeft at the bottom of the sea rather thail & € ? aAbridge . You cannot think wfi&t ^ fe | itface ft has brought upon tlie L 6 ndon ; 0 aptisjs . Our church behold iit wrtK % stetttsTmierrt , and the University s ^ y ^ fy q . author ^ were strangers to the firSt ' jin ) ici y l ^\ of €% lristian '' hDerty : The < iues , t ? 6 n , is rWt iyf trie truth of their creed / bitt rtf ^ the * ireposition of \ U For

    siSchPSply sftall receive cfxxr charily a , s Kaffivti A John of Geneva , HicL Could f ¥ uD ^ iii ^; a hurn ^ n c reecf I WtVula not ; dtyft for , d ^ o c ^ Ba ptist ddl ^ l would ^ wBrnii * id my lotds ' iHt bishops , for sd&e ^ gdod ^ mg irr ' irieir ricft adr ^ fu-

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    ttoh . 'l ^ es e ecclesiastical sheriffs , appointed by the cro * vn , play Jupiter with & better grace than our little Anabaptist tyrants . Believe what they will , but \ Vhy pretend to \ vrile a creed for me ? \ Vhy sap the foundation of the good old Baptists ? Scripture alone is a sufficient guide for every Christian man .

    Pardon , dear Mr . Taylor , my prolixity . 1 hatedominionoverconscience , because I am clearly convinced it dis ^ , honours God , degrades man , tacitly demies the perfection of the divine * word , dethrones the King of saints , ' and introduces all manner of wicked

    passions among Christians , withdraw- . ing them from the example of the mild and merciful Master , and imparting to ' them the contentious and cruel dispositions of bigots . They have turned the gospel into a miserable system of metaphysics 5 and to define natures , not to observe facts , is instead of talents

    natural and acquired , instead of good sense , exact reason , and often , instead of virtue itself . This depression lies upon all human systems , when they ' are made the tests of Christians . ~ > **> " ' * My wife , who sits by , asks how people found tTie way to heaven before Calvin and Van Harmin were born ?

    I answer , by the liffht of Scripture alone . Then , adds she > I shall content myself with my New Testament , an « J leave the great Latin folios- ' to your friend TaVlpr and you .: I reply , you may very safely , sujq we shajt debate pur points with as ^ l » tif £ gall . ??" , ?/ th ^ inquiry were which of its " couji . uio ^ dexterously jittrip' bver a fivp-barr-ed

    ejate . - xtr If you think proper to write to r * iev you may gtve your letter to my t ( au ^ uv ^/ « or ask her for a frank . She . is the wife of a Mri Brown , \ virie T merohant ^ j&o ! Q L . pVe Lane , Little fiastc'heap , wher ^ , I

    am sure , she will be gla 4 t (> ' ^ ee . youj and wher £ protiably Mfs . R . and' % may tiave the pleasure of seeing yoii some time or other . My dutiful respects to Father Britain , and to your whole family . r I am , dear Sir , Ever yOur' -s most dftectinnately , lipirr . nqi ^ iNsoN . By the vCay , my frierid \ i \ - m ^ Uer his will , you will recollect , nUg tlvc * K ** ll the forrnef part of ixiy letter is ni >( hin ^ . Is not Mr \ Vinchcster in -ypiir Q () . i ) - nfectioW ? Jfl ^ s bodk , on tlie rejstqrg . ^ o ^ Of arHHitigs , is in the UniveVsUvili ' biraYv . ' and thence Ilia ^ irW ' read . Y lli 81 &

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1817, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2460/page/11/