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important writings ( so deemed at least by many ) of Christian antiquity , have been but of late discovery . This ascribed to St . Barnabas was first brought to light by Hugo Menardus , a monk , in the middle of the sixteenth century , and , being recovered out of
the dust and rubbish of an old library in a monastery , was not printed till 1645 , at Paris . Since then it has been published , and ,-in England , j « different forms . There are but two
passages in 1 his Epistle which speak directly of baptism ; but they are to our purpose , I think , both as to subject and mode . " Blessed are those , ' * says h 6 , ' * who having hoped in the cross , have descended into the 4 €
water . " * And , again : We descend into the water full pf sins and filth , and ascend bearing fruit , " 8 cc . f It is unnecessary to notice what he says of baptism in a spiritual way : and , that though he uses the word
sprinkling elsewhere , yet it is lor a purpose very different from baptism * That very passage which would , and , I think , has been so injudiciously huddled into this controversy , may be taken aa adding considerable weight and force to the argument founded on
the other two passages , and 1 should reckon it trifling to introduce it here . The next writing is , <* The Shepherd of Hermas > " who also is said to have been contemporary with St . Paul . This was a long time only to be seen in Latin manuscripts , from which various editions in JLatin were
afterwards printed . Cotelerius first published it , in l 672 > among the Patres Apostolici , with various insertions in Greek , collected from the Greek Fathers . Dr . Fell published it at Oxford , in 1724 , without the Greek insertions : and there are other editions . Now
there are , in this singular work , several places where Infant Baptism would naturally and almost of necessity have been mentioned , had it been practised at the time these visions were written 3 as , where the circumstances of his family , and particularly
, . * M&Mtpwh <>* * c * r * tw , sr «* vp < w f \ jr ** < r 4 ^ T £ l » \ co&TeGi ) a : cx . v uq to w&cpjj . 1 " W / ASK fiW KaCTOtfioUMfASU £ 4 $ T « iJ&ft ) ^ yGfAwreq oofxapricov , kcci ' jpiwof , wou awa , - ficftfWjuei' KO'PKQ < poQf 3 VTe <; 9 &c . Sect . x .
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of his sons , are so pointedly com * men ted on , and in the vision that tic ; has about the church , ( under the similitude of a ^ "nwer founded on « ra * ters , ) and the |* arfsoiis that compose ^ it , together with the discriminating reasons for receiving some persons
and rejecting others . Not the most distant allusion is made to an tufant or babe : he speaks of some " wtio have heard the word , desiring to be baptized in the name of the Lord * " &c .: * and when , in illustrating his figures , he alludes to baptism , he adopts language which implies
immersion of the whole body , and which , of necessity , excludes babes and infants : ' * That seal is water into which men , obnoxious to death , descend j but ascend , set apart to life , " i $ c «
which of necessity excludes infants . The figurative part of the vision , relating to baptism , is quoted by Clemens Alexandrinus , and so quoted by him as to comprehend the import of the whole passage . $
The next writings among the Apostolical Fathers , are the two Epistles to the Cofinthians , of St . Clement , ( Homanus , ) said also to be the Clement mentioned by St . Paul . The original Greek manuscript had been sleeping
for many centuries in a library at Alexandria , and was first brought to light , and published by Patricius Junius , in 1633 . There have been many editions published since , illustrated by the notes of learned men of different
countries ; and they appeared in Cotelerius ' s more splendid edition of the Patres Apostolici , at Paris , in 16 ? £ . In the first Epistle there is no notice taken of baptism , either infant or adult . In the second an allusion is once made to
it in these words : But the Scripture also says in Ezekiel , 4 that if Noah and Job and Daniel should rise wp % they shall not deliver their children in captivity * But if such just men cannot bv their righteousness deliver their
? 4 i sunt , qu ~ verbum atidieiniJifc ^ wleute ^ baptizari in nomine Domini . Li fe . i » Via . iii . Sect , rii . f Hind autem s ^ igLllum e « t & <| u % ijj ^ quam homines descendum , mot-ti obli { ra . U ^
ascendunt vero vitas assignati . Lib , ili , Sim . ix . 10 . He bad been say in f just before , " Autequam rnim accipiat hqmo uomeii Filii Det ,. morti dettiu&tu ? entt Strom , ii . post init , vi . Ante mediuat .
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On Mr . Belsham ' s Censure of Mr . Robinson . Jtf } f
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1818, page 567, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2480/page/31/
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