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been baptized by affusiQO required to be baptized again . iC 5 . Baptism by affusion was common in France at \ he coramencement of the fifth century . This practice has prevailed
considerably in the north of Europe ; particularly in Great Britain . And it is an undeniable fact , that those Christians who baptize by affusion , do as strictly comply with the precept of the New Testament * , as those who baptize by immersion .
€ i 6 . The practice of administering baptism of adult persons by one person putting * another under v » ater , as it is inconvenient and indecorous , so it is neither required by the precept , nor warranted by the example , of the New Testament . " —Pp . 73—76 . Mr . Belsharn next points out what he considers to be intimations of
infant baptism or allusions to it in the New Testament , but upon these he does riot appear to lay much stress : the passages produced are Col . ii 11 , 1 & » wh ^ re Paul calls baptism " the circumcision of Christ , " Mark x . 14 , John iii . 5 , Actt * ii . 38 , and 1 Cor . vii . 14 .
The Letters are closed with a statement of the Practical Uses of Infant Baptism ; which , according to Mr . Belsham , consist not in washing away the stain of original sin , or in merely naming the child , but in introducing infants into the glorious and honourable community of which Christ is
the head , and inscribing them upon the sacred register of the visible church , as spiritually free-born } and in laying parents under the obligation of an outward and public profession to instruct their offspring in the Christian doctrine and to bring them up in the discipline of the Christian school .
The two forms of administration of the rite are adapted to the foregoing views of it , and are solemn and devotional * and calculated to edify such parents as can enter into the ceremony with both the heart and the understanding .
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Art . II . — -The Mystery Unfolded ; or an Exposition of the Extraordinary M ^ ans employed to obtain Converts by the Agents of th $ London Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews , See . fa * By M . Sail man , Tsacber of Hebrew , Southampton . &vo . pp . 84 . Published at No . 1 , Chequer Square . Aldgate . 2 s . Od .
161 ? . IN owr Fifth Volume ( pp . 155—150 . aiic $ S 7 p ) we gave pur opinion of
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the Lonqon Society fox coaveftiag the Jews . Tfce event has justified our intimations , and verified our predictions . The public were instructed in the real state of the case a few months ago , by the late printer to the Society [ Mon . Repos . XI . 540 } , and his statements are confirmed and the
character of some of the pretended converts more full } displayed iu the pamphlet before us , written by owe of the Jewish nation , who is indignant at proceedings which are alike disgraceful to Jews and i 'bristians . The Dissenters have withdrawn
from this society , and the chapel in Spitalfields , where Dissenting worshi p was carried on , avowedly for the sake of the Jews , is shut up . The Society has , however , one place of worship , the new chapel , in . the parish of Bethaal Green , at the top of the Hackney Road : but it is ridiculous to call this
( as it is called , and as the Hebrew inscription gb the front of the building designates it ) , a Jews * CThapel : no Jews attend it witb the exception of the children , ii ^ the school , who , according to this auttipi ' , are not aj { Jews OB the side of bot |} parents , of the servants of tiie so * My oh pay , anel
of jpethaps as many converts as would suffice to fill a pew . 1 b fact , the place is nothing more tban a Chapel of Ease for ' evangerical , " that is , Calvinutic preaching , and being on tfte etjge of three large parishes , and rempte from the several parish-churches , i ^ very well attended .
The Dul ^ e of Ker * t l ^ aa patron of the Society , but ( according to Mr . Sailman , p . 6 Q ) , ha $ wUfediawn his patronage : this ftoaa of royal sanction i& however compensated ( as we learn from our author ) by the accession of two bishops , their lordships of St . David ' s and Gloucester .
The Jew-preacbert Mr . Frey , for whom the society was instituted , i ^ left the country , " sent oUt at the expense of the tonctefl Society to Nw York * An * eric * " ( p . 6 p ) : if he had b ee ** sent out , at lAa expense of the country to a still more distant part o # the world , he would hi tiie judgment of our author have had no more than his desert .
Converted Jews have , fbuntf a *» u »> - ficen t patroji in M ^ . Ww * o * . ts * 0 " stea ^ Sitfjsex * who hos * Wi belw ** entered , wto onder ^ ** fl 4 * Mm * w ™
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6 S 4 Review . S C — -ociety fix * 9 nve » ki ^ g the Jew ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1817, page 684, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2470/page/44/
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