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scripts , Explanatory of the chief Controverted PoirBts . ** Sir George Stonehowse , Bart ., was a son of Francis Stonehouste , Esq ., and grandson to Sir George Stone * bouse , of Hungerford Park , * Bart ., who died 24 th February , 1737 /'
It appears from a note in the Btrrnfeam Society correspondence , that the Rev . Sir Jgnaes Stonehouse , Bart . y M « D ., ( noticed by Brevis , ) enjoyed Jbfe title from after the death of Sir deorge Storehouse , of East Breat , tre having died without mate issue . In this note there is a copious genealogy of the family .
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ately follows , afs at sort of postscript t <* the preceding letter , or rather , pei ** haps , as an interlbquium between that letter and the other which I propose to send . It may , probably , then , have been
the wish of your Correspondent , Mr * Beish&m , when looking for any opposition to the early and prevailing practice of Infitnt Baptism , to have met with disputes ptfo and con , after the manner of modern controversies , and
these , perhaps ^ ying in very ancient manuscripts . Mr . Robinson , it i £ true , makes no such appeals . Manuscripts ^ ind eed , going into those matters , of the age , at least , when those disputes wete , I apprehend , first afloat , itoust huve been iftor £ ancient
probably than any known manuscript , * Hebrew , Greek or Latin , even of the ? Old or New Testament . Nor shall 1 inquire wh&t light may be thrown' on this subject iik ancient maftiiiscripte thfrt are known to esdst , de Bajlti-2 * antlis , de Bafctismis Parvulomm , te
Hserettcis * Rebaptteandte , the many fragments , p ? o et ? con ,- die Anabat * tistis , contra Cairtist a * , g oiitHt' Bfenichraeosv contest Pelagium , and the like : thaugfKy perhaps ^ before W € assert too riitaclv it woWd' not be lift-^ eagonsifele to suppose vite haV 6 ittad ^ a little ' search * . If we mafce nt > seal-dhj we rtiust be ^ ottt ^ nt with What
pdsifive pfoofir catt' he p ^ 6 dti < 3 ^ d , on oti ^ sidfe or on the other , from printed ' books : Such proofs , ample eiibtigti ? for the purpose of induction , exhibited ' in * ancient ! waitings , and in priwiitiv ^' practice , atre , in my hutftbte opihion , produced , as 1 may hop £ has appeared in a fortii £ r tetter , by Mr . Robinson .
To say nothing at present of the apostolical writings , as We have had * occasion'to allude t 6 w ^ rititi gs nearly , if not quite , equal'to them in point of antiquity , it rtiay not be iftiprop ^ r to
produce ! flroril them such passages as throw ahy light On this' subject : and as these vt > Wks dte in j > rii ) it > as well as in nlJititt ^ ript , the amount of the e * videite £ tb be derived from tHem is
accessible to all . To leave then , for the present , Mr . ft ., tkie first of these writings alluded to ,- is knowtn by th <» " name of the a Catholic Epistte of St ; Bartiabas ^ snid to be tbe companion 6 f St . Paul . The earliest titid m&& < & tHe ittttrt
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SB 6 On Mf * Belsh 4 m * 4 Censute of Mr . Robinson .
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Ofe Mr . Belshmris CefrtUre of Mr . Robinson . ( Continued from p . 441 . ) Sway August %% 181 B . THOUGH Mr . BelshamV words ' ^ referred to at the end of tfiy lawsfr letter , were not misquoted by
nie& vet , LL confessi thev weve misebnmet yet , confessj they w ^ eve misebn-< 3 eived ^ i nd misinterpreted . ** In vaindkJ I seek for a single individual , who being the child of baptized' pa - r £ ftts , * & < 2 » I understood th £ word
baptized as being synonymous \ Vith Cftristtan or believing , and in reference to' that sense of it , f had be ^ ii perUriftg ! Mr . H / s History : a great oversight- unquestioriably , and which , a « h it is * entitled to blame , so it
fequii ^ a ^ 3 n apology ; though , I trus ^ V it will not be inferred , ^ that I did not knov ^ the different geiisfcs > of thte ^ 6 rds ; The truth is , I rekd Mr . Bielslmm ' s words at a time when niy mind was fully and very settously occupied with other subjects ; and ,
indeed , to those subjects I am now Obliged to return . I must , therefore , heg your permission to let me dtefer sending the further observations , which I had been preparing' on Mr . R . ' s History , till ' a Aiture opportunity . Itt ' tlie mean time , I ask leave to
submit to you the following few thoughts connected with the j ^ rec ^ ding obser-Vatioms , and'not inapplicable to \ Vhat m » y ' hereafter foliow * - Mr . B ! ,-1 ptfceiVfe , pretty uniformly follows' Mr .
WUrg History df lilftmt Bkptism ; airid MV ; -Wiairsl' Btatfemeht of tlie point i ^ tetr ^ d ' tb above shall ' be fairly and distinctly examined , whfen I am more at lei&ure ; Y <> u will » therefore , please ^ oir ^ to ^ con sider what now immedi ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1818, page 566, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2480/page/30/
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