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Sir , York , June 79 1818 . ^ fTTiHE inquiry in the last Number JL of the Repository , [ p . 326 , ] of your unknown Correspondent , respecting the peculiar opinions which have , it appears , been denominated
Cappism , has explained to me the principal cause why the Critical Dissertations , " of which it devolved upon me , in the year 1802 , to become the Editor , should hitherto have excited
so little general attention . Ushered into the world wholly iinpatronized , and when the able pen of the author could no longer be employed in their ^ farther illustration or defence ^ containing some deductions from the careful , sober , unwearied
study of the sacred volume for the long-protracted period of half a century , which had unavoidably led to results that , however important , had not previously been anticipated , it was hot wonderful that their novelty should excite a prejudice in their
disfavour ; nor , perhaps , wholly unprecedented that the fortunate expedient Should fie adopted of designating them by a term , which should imply the total absence of just reasoning and legitimate argument , and thus impede , if not prevent their more general diffusion , without subjecting the
objectors to the more arduous labour of a sober and regular reply The mind of your new Correspondent , Mr . Editor , appears to be cast in a different mould , and it is my earnest wish , a wish whieh I express with the greater confidence , under the full persuasion that it would also . have been that of
the justly revered Author himself , ( who * had no higher object in this wofrld than the faithful development of imparlanttruth , ) that he will attentively read "these calumniated **
Dissertations , " and judge for himself . They were published for the late Mr-Johnson , St . Paul ' s Chureh-yard , and may now be had of his successor , Mr . Hunter , CATHARINE CAPPE-
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Sm , Jtme % 1-818 . It is with some reluctance that the ? writer of the following observations submits them to the . readers of the Repository , and an apology is . perhaps due to them for the present
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attempt , an attempt it may be thought by some to keep alive a dispute , which indeed , has hitherto , so far as appears in the Repository , been earned on with skirmishes only , and the small shot of the opponents , though
evidently men capable of much higher evolutions , but which the friends of each party may think has been already carried , if not too far , at least far enough * The dispute relates to baptism . ,
In the course of this contest some contemptuous censures ' were passed on Mr . Robinson ' s History of Baptism [ p . 241- ] . Yopr Christian Surveyor of the Political World , indeed , recommended it , as containing ct a full refutation of all that Mr . Belsham had
advanced on Infant Baptism and Babesprinkling" [ p . S « 3 ] . Mn B ., on the other hand , expressed his concern in a concise , royal way , which he expected , perhaps , some readers would take for answer , " that such a book should have been written by such a
man . " In a strain of similar compliment the Christian Surveyor might have expressed his wish , that such a person as Mr . B . would give such an answer to it as the book requires , though it appears , from what has lately
fallen from his pen , that at present he is ill-qualified for such an undertaking ; and that , with whatever avidity he began to read this work at its first appearance , that avidity must have cooled very soon .
" I found much curious information , " says Mr . B ., " about fonts and baptisteries . " There are certainly some curious engravings of baptisteries , as any body may see without reading the work , as that of St . Sophia at Constantinople , of , the
Lateran at Rome , of the Catholic and Allan baptisteries at Ravenna , and of others . The description of them actually does throw , what it seems this gentleman was so anxious to obtain , " much new light on the subject of baptism" and a perusal of it will shew ,
that he need not have been disappointed . It became necessary for the writer to shew , that the situation of those splendid baptisteries , over or near rjVers , the form arid magnitude of the , lavacra . or bath * , yf \ th < etSP * going j lowo % tp ^ m ^ the pwp ^ ^ t and other emblematic decorations i »
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SB 6 Mrs . Cappe in Reply to an Inquiry concerning Cappism
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 386, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/42/
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