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Dvttch Baptists . In the letters of M . Hesselink to the late Mr . Ashdowjie , pp . 352 , 353 , some account i $ given of the Dutch Baptists . An English Baptist minister , Mr . Roberts , of Bristol , has just visited them , and the
following * extract of a letter from him concerning them , is inserted in the Baptist Magazine . The writer seems to have been unacquainted with the history and character of the Remonstrants , amongst whom the greater number of Baptists is to lie found . He is somewhat sanguine in calculating- upon their conversion to
Calriniszn . ** Hague , Holland ^ June ^ 1 £ 1 $ * " I preached in Rotterdam twice on the Lard ' s day , in the Scotch Church , which
Mr . Angus procured for me , by introducing : me to the clergyman . The congregations were small , but very attentive . ^ I have made particular inquiries concerning our denomination in this country . lam
perfectly astonished at the indifference of the English Baptists to this body of people —they are upwards of 30 , 000 in number , rery rich and powerful ; their minister very learned , of various sentiments—some evangelical , others sadly degenerated * I have no doubt but much good might be done , at a little expense , if our denomination would exert themselves « I feel
persuaded , that , by prudent management , under a divine blessing ' , this immense body of Batch Baptists might be brought into the field of missionary exertions ; might gain have the ordinance of baptism re * stored to its original purity , and , eventually , be evangelized to the profession of the truth , as it if in Jesus . « T \ EGBERTS "
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fore au arbitrary act , to which no deference ought to be paid . The whole case is laid before the public , in a memorial from the Court of Badec , accompanied by a number of very cnrious documents .
It appears that the Baron Von Wessenberg , in his capacity of Grand Vicar of Constance , sanctioned by the Prince Primate and the chapter , has been the author of many important reforms in the Church that have long given umbrage to the Court of Rome . Among his other reforms , it
appears that he absolved monks from the oaths of celibacy , quoting the well . known language of the Apostle Paul on the sub * jeet—that he caused the service to be translated into , and celebrated in , the mother tongue—that he dispensed with the use of the breviary—that fee altered a number of
inconvenient forms with respect to bap * tism , &c . —that he appointed stated examinations of the clergy—that he abolished all but a few festivals , and prohibited the ringing of bells on the days and eves of those abolished—that he , with the conse nt *
of the civil authority , converted monas ~ teries , &c , into places of education and hospitals , formed a new and more commodious division of parishes , and distributed the livings into classes , which were bestowed according to merit , and in which all extremes were avoided—that he
discouraged pilgrimages , &c . It appears that he protected a professor who had distinguished himself by his skill in liberal learning , after a mandate had been issued against him by the Pope , on the ground that he had ascertained the accusations .
in the mandate , to be unfounded * The bishop is supported by all the clergy of his extensive diocese , and , indeed , by nearly all the clergy of Catholic Germany * Among the lay Catholics there is but one opinion concerning him . —Times . Sept . 17 , 1 S 18 .
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tntelliaence . C < —TTie German Rofwm * tholic $ ~ Unitwri * n Fund . 65 *
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The German Roman Catholics * On the death , of the late Prince Primate , who was also Bishop of Const auce , the Ifcaron Voa Wessenberg , his general vicar in the diocese of Constance , was nominated
to succeed him . The Pope refused to confirm the nomination ; but the Grand Duke of Baden , his sovereign , maintains him in his situation , iu defiance of the Pope ' s authority , and in so doing , he is supported by all the sovereign * «* f
Germany . The Grand Duke of Baden contends , that a * sovereign he us entitled to nominate to the vacant diocese , and that « uch nomination ought to be field good , till It be accorUintd by competent judges in p < xr
tibuty that a » improper person has bee « chosen . In this -ewe , after the * n < wrt rijtfMmif inquiry , lie lias found the Baron Vott Wewenbergf « qualification * rf the highest fcihd , and bit conduet to have « 9 w * ys be # « *«* t exemplary ; and Ike tftto ) * tftt tiwrpart <* f fte Pope , t » 4 mm-
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DOMESTICftKLIGIOUS , i Unitarian Fund . AftitANOBMfiNTS are on foot for a more prompt and regular circulation of the Reports of this Society amongst the members
The accounts will be made up and priwted at the and of the year ; the subscribers and receivers of subscriptions are , tberc * fore , respectfully solicited to remit the monies due from them or in their hand * , te the Treasurer , John Ohristie , £ « q ^ Mark Lane , or the Secretary . Bev . W . J .
§ W , Hackney Road . Iatere « tiji ^ reporti have been received , And will be cpeedilv published , of a miisioiiary tour in C # tn ~ w ») l , by feeva J SmHlMiMt , of WhneUm Hanypstead ^ and of Another in btneafchrre mtA Vorkthire , hf Kev . R . WrigfaU « e «
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 655, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/55/
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