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-s far ferther wfbrma&wn from Hie , an what he ehoosea to call doctrines endaageri&g mea ' s salvation , as I have aot stated any such in the quotation lie has given in his letter , nor even alluded to them , he must excuse me from saying any tiling farther on the
subject . I am not in the least inclined to enter into any controversy with him , as my time can be much better employed . Io his present temper of mind it would lead only to vain discussion , eaclless genealogies , and strife about words . HoXiltiOL y )[ J , ouv iv scjxvoig . IGNOTUS .
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tion of this rite , and also to the Epistle of Paul to the church of Corinth , in which he declares that the Lord Jesus had made a particular communication to him of tke institution of the Lord ' s Supper , and its perpetual obligation until his " coming again . "
Here the whole chain of evidence is complete , uniting itself to a positive command from that authority which no disciple is at liberty to question . No room is here left for hypothesis or
conjecture . No possibility of being free from the obligation of that authority , which a * ' prophet sent from God" has an indisputable right to exercise . And that he has so exercised his
authority , is established by a mass of evidence , sufficient in all cases to uphold unhesitating belief . If this be a true statement of the case , the fair inference , 1 think , is as
follows : That the observance of the Lord ' s Supper is commanded by an authority we dare not disobey ; but Infant Baptism must be referred to those observances about which the
apostolic rule is , " Let every one be satisfied in his own mind . " The one may be obligatory , the other must not be questioned . How far the concurring testimony of antiquity , sufficient satisfactorily to establish the genuineness and authority
of ancient writings , may not be sufficient to uphold the authority of ritual observances , ought to be decided by a careful induction of particular facts : and the inquiry would perhaps tend
to elucidate some very curious laws of association , which govern the phoenomena of the human mind ; and to which I may one day ask your permission to call the attention of your readers . T . G . —^
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Reply to Mr * Belsham on his JPlea for Infant Baptism , 637
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Sir , London , Nov . 14 , 1817-WHATEVER may be the amount of evidence produced by our highly esteemed friend Mr . Belsham , for ttoe continued practice of Infant
Baptism by the Christian church , I must take the liberty to say , it is very far short of that evidence by which the observance of the Lord ' s Supper , as a positive institution by the Founder of the Christian religion , is supported .
The assertion x > f Mr . Belsham from which I dissent is made in the Mon . Repos . for October , p . 607 ? and is as foljows : " For these external rites ,
( the Lord ' s Supper and the Lord ' sday , ) howerer reasonable and useful in themselves , yet , as Christian institutions , they stand upon no other foundation , nor can a better be desired 1
than Infant Baptism . ' Admitting that the practice of the early church has been at a }) times equally uniforna , as regards the rite of Infant Baptism and the observance of the Lord ' s Supper , yet when infant baptism is traced to the earliest records
of the church , we must have recourse to a hypothesis to establish it as of apostolic authority . And although the evidence for this hypothesis amounts to a very high degree of probability , yet the perpetual obligation of the rite I a conjecture supported by a very inferior degree of probability . This appears to me to be the state
tftfae question , after an attentive readtog of the « Plea for Infant Baptism . " With regard to the institution of the Lord ' s Supper , we know the practice j ^ the early Christian church to have j ^ en constant and regular , their testUnony invariable to the genuineness * W * authenticity of the gospels which Wfltaiq m account pf the first iustitu-
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- Sir , . 2 Vbi » . 5 , 181 7-^ CONSIDERING the Russian re-\^ y script referred to in your last Number ( p . 628 ) , a document worthy , from the truly Catholic and benign spirit which dictated it , of more
permanent preservation than the mere recbrd of a common journal c ? n afford , I beg to transmit you a copy I had extracted for my own portfolio , under the full impression that you will cowcur with ine in thinking its insertion will not discredit the pviges of the Monthly Repository .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1817, page 657, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2470/page/17/
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