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      jottg out of my thoughts § but . I 'have t&t Ititlierto bad the power of executing my : pui * pose > 1 hope , tiuring the &nsu £ ng vacation , to make great progress in preparing for the press . Will yomr highly-fespected CWrespondetitVo ¥ . extriise me , ( in fcehalf of the various Unitarian churches

      formingoongregrationailfbraries , ) in requesting him to supply them * through the Repository , with a list of suitable books , ' marking those which it would fee best for them to procure first , and bearing in minds , that their fin&iiees

      are very limited * Those who have seen the catalogue of the Newcastle Congregational Library , will not wonder at my making this request to one who must have had a great share in the formation -of it .

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      it with grfeat glee to a fox-hunting tiine ^ , 4 v ! liich , having previously practised , was well performed * The pa * rishiioners - again met and informed thrir pastor of what they called the indecorum \_ queryi informed the bishop

      of tlie indecorwm of their pastor ?* J—« but the Bishop said that their pastor wns right , for it was so ordered : upon which they declared that they vvould dispense with the creed in future § nor did Mr . / W right ever after either read or sing it . "

      This is not a bad story * though it is ill told . I have heard it related * again and again , though never with any name to verify it . Even now , I can scarcely regard it as more than a joke . Who was this Mr * Wright * m $ & when and where did ^ he live ? And

      who was his diocesan ? it these ques tions interrupt a laugh , let it be re ^ membered that merriment is gooc ^ but truth is better .

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      Mr 6 MMshtm 4 m the Argutnentjfah liifimt Baftfanio % §

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      Sra * Crediton , Nov . SO , 1817 « BEG leave to correct the state-I ment , ib your last Number , [ XII . 036 £ ] tit my beiiig ** fate of the Baptist Academy Bristol , " my acquaint * ttnce wifh the conductors of that

      Institution not having been of such a narture as to warrant this statement 5 and that acquaintance having terminated upwards of ten years , ¦ G . P . HINTON *

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      . Sir , Jan , % 1818 . fTpIHE late Impotent prosecution of JL Mr . Hone ? for a parody on the Athanasian Creed ? has excited great -attention'to that disgusting and odious

      Tormulary , and lias brought out many fenecdotes ' Which , but for the religious xeal at tny jLord Sidmoutfa ? -would have slept for ever . Among these -is the following , which I extract from The Mornitig Cbroniele of Tuesday , Deceuiber 50 th :

      «* When the late Rev . Mr . Wright had a small living in tbe ^ W ^ tof England , iierefasred toread the Athanasian Creed , though repeatedly desired to do so by his parishioners . The parishioners complained to the bishop , who ordered it to he read . Now this very curious Creed is

      appointed to be said or sungP wnd Mr . Wright accordingly , on the -JolioWJctg Sunday , tl ^ us addressed his congregation , —i" Next follows Athanasiusf ' s Creed s either to be said or sung , and f With heaven ^ leav ^ Til sing it . Nov ^ , € lerk ! trimd tVhat you ate about ;' itfhen they fedtfe atmek op and mmg

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      Mr * Welsham 0 % the Argument for Infant Baptism * Essex House * Sir , Ja / midry 6 , I 8 I 80 YOUR worthy Correspondent and my good-natured opponent T . C . H . [ XII . 715—717 , ] shews as much dexterity in puzzling a pdain case as any special pleader in Christendom . I should , however , have left

      tiis declamation to its fate , had it no * aifforded me an opportunity of re- » stating , in a somewhat different light s € he argument for what I conceive to foe an apostolical institution , in the observation of which the whole

      Christian world is nearly unanimous , hat of the grounds of which many intelligent persons , even though they practise it , are lamentably ignormtt * i shall liegin with briefly remarking & 1 few not very relevant suggestions * $ f your worthy Cor respondent .

      1 . Your Correspondent tells us what he does believe , and what he does not Relieve concerning : baptism . —The true iquestion is , what the apostles taught and what the primitive Christians believed ancl practised .

      ¦ & . Your Correspondent kindly refits us to the twelve bul-ky totnes of Lardn ' er to settle the question , in ^ re * . turfy for which I beg leave to r&fer ytlttii to the Ecclesiastical ^ titeps dt Che three fust centudes . And Whea Itfe

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1818, page 29, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2472/page/29/