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lien of which lie has substituted positive assert ions , personal ^ reflections , vulgar nicknames , and itncandtd jnsi * auatiotts ^ Notwithstanding whtcb ,-4 should have been well content to iuve dismissed the Mitkject , had your Clms * tian Surve \ or suffered us to depart in peace . But tie n © t only tells us * that
** he still eniert ' Miw the Qpimou , " and let his opinion go for as much as it is worth , ** that the custom of bubesprinkling has no foundation what ever in Scripture , and is not a chris * tiltu rite ; " he also adds that it " i&med chiefly by persons who wish to 4 tssimi late the kingdom pf Gad to the king * doms oftftis world *"
Now , Sir , it is ratber too much for an individual member of a modern sect * which , however respectable for the character of its adherent 8 is abeo * lately insigniflcatit in its numbers to draw up an indictment against the great body of the Christian church in all countries and in all ages . 1 will venture to say that it is a , charge for
which there is not the slightest found * ation ? of which the accuser can produce no proof , and which is in the highest degree irrelevant and absurd , In short , the writer might with equal truth and propriety have asserted , that Infant Baptism i « used chiefly by thos ^ who admit Sir Isaac Newton ' s
doctrine of gravitation , and who lire determined to defend the same against * U 1 who presume to impugn it . . Suppose that J , beiiig a paedobaptist , for want of something better to -say * should endeavour Co excite pop
is-Jar odium against a small party , who within the last century have conscientiously called in question the permanent obligation of Christian baptism , by denouncing them as a pack of jacobins , democrats , and levellers , who had formed a conspiracy to destroy the constitution and overturn the
government ; what would every impartial reader think and say of a charge so foolish and malignant ? And what atonement could expiate the guilt of so base and groundless an accusation ? f Non tmli auxilio nee dtfensoribus isti $ 9 tempus sget . " 1 \ BELSHAM ,
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opinion would ailow clmatian 9 h& | $ * tera to make ( what Is called th ^ Lprd ^ Supper- ) { a cont i n ued pa rt of the § M £ t *» lie service offering to no individual # f the congregation , by the interriiptiop of tb « 5 service , an oi ^ portunUy tp depart . " By making this cereroony part of tte public service , it i »
evidently intended that all should participate in it ; any one declining to < U > so to he a marked man in the covigpe ^ ga tion . The advantages to be g ^ ain ^ by this process I do not « eej tke disadvantages appear to be oiuny . But whatever either may be , a
previous question seems to be necessary ^ and this is , whetiier the rite , called the Lord ' s Shipper * as it is now a ^ - ministered * has any foundation whatever in the Scriptures . I am of
opinion that it has not ; a « dthat wtien our Saviour appointed * certam * &&-mortal of himself and Paul coH ^ rmc ^ i the account of the last night before the crucifixion , they bad wekher of them in view the , rite , w hicli now
goes under the name of the Lord ' s Supper . I shall trouble you only with a few remarks on the quotation produced by T . G . from the apostle * * writings , and I shall confine myself to two points . Our Saviour speak * of this bread and this cup , by which fee
does not appear to me to mean any bread or any cup , thereby making it necessary for Christians sit every glats of wine to commemorate him ; but he confines himself by the expression , this bread and this cup , to a particular time , when it was customary to bjess
the bread and the cup * of whj $ h all around the person so breaking bread and blessing a cup in his han < 2 $ were about to participate . Now tfr £ time when this was done was at night , when the apostles were at tabje 9 and he sat as master of the fairiily , Ih this capacity he broke bread and
blessed the cup , exactly in the same manner as has been practised , andM I * QW practised by the Jews , from the time of Christ to the present day * T Ji ^ blessings in both th ^ ae cases are sUll in use among the Jews ; and there if * evident proof in the historians of 0 # r Saviours life , that he used a similar
expression to that in < : omniou prs ^ QtiC ^ among the Jew »» , The t ^ rjti * l ^ otxi ^ Supper shew * how widely OhrivtWMm h ^ ve departed from the commemor ^ tion instituted by our Saviour . The
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Mr . JFrend en the Perpetuity cf the Lords 'Supper * " \ 0 T
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^^^^^^^^^^ i ^ p i ^^ P ^^^^^^^^^^ S « m Ftbrwtry & l $ l g . AM not surprised at tlie wish eitprea * € d by yom Corre ^ paodon t I Gr < & < & * ) that ^ tlHi ftat * of public
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 107, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/27/
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