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wiiosfe concurrence the emoluments might be regained * and duly appropriated . The above-mentioned towns are populous , particularly Stone and Newcastle-under Line , and conveniently
situated for a junction of ministerial labours ; the extreme distance from Stafford to Newcastle being only sixteen miles , and Stone is situated at nearly midways or if thetri pie union should be found to be too laborious , for alternate
services on a Lord ' s day , and weekly evening lectures * even the junction of Stafford and Stone might be worthy the consideration and patronage of the friends of Unitarianism . I have long considered this as a promising district for the exertions of an active young
man of popular talents , amiable manners , and a proportionate zeal in the good cause . I do not know whether it comports with the design and regulations of the Unitarian Fund , to patronize a speculation of this kind , under existing
circumstances : though T I am not withcircumstances ; though am not without hope , that if the committee of that Fund are authorized to make the experiment ! they would be gratified by success .
When travelling that way , frequently has the thought been painful to me , that there was not a brother minister after my own heart to be found between Congleton and
Wolverhampton , a distance of at least forty-four miles , planted with populous towns and villages , in which , doubtless , some might be met with to whom the sound of Unitarian
doctrines , simple but sublime , plain but consolatory , would be glad tidings indeed . These hints , Mr . Editor , I have taken the liberty of suggesting for
your consideration . If they meet with your approbation , and the experiment of reviving the sacred cause , under a purified form , be deemed adviseable , I shall be happy to communicate any additional items of information that may be requested W . T . PROCTER .
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in connexion with the apostolical- fa * thers , I may be permitted , it is hoped , to draw them into a nearer connexion , by comparing them together , in a few particulars that have forced themselves on my notice ; and that , before entering upon farther observations on Mi \ Robinson ' s History .
Though the preceding letters do not profess , to go into the subject of Baptism at large , and , indeed , more immediately relate to Mr- Robinson ' s History 5 yet , of necessity they have , at intervals , touched on points which concern the general question ; some
connected with the interpretation of various passages in the apostolical waitings , others with certain notions on tradition and apostolical authority . I allude more particularly to the apostolical writings now , on a supposition , which is admitted , that they are nearly ,
if not of the same age , with those of the writings ( with the exception of Tertullian ' s ) vjust referred to ; and by the absolute genuineness of any of them , the question is but little affected ; for I am not ignorant that same learned , and , I doubt not , very honest men , will not admit even these to be
narratives of genuine facts , nor to be written by those whose names they bear ; yet , as the bulk of real Chris * tians do , and those who are only nominally so , have made them tfte matter of their appeals aad criticisms ; as all these writings , as well those of
the apostolical fathers as of the apostles , are allowedly very ancient , and written at periods not very distant from each other ; it may be reasonably expected , that many things which admit of criticism and dispute , may , by such comparison , be much
illustrated . For example : it may be inferred , that the commission to teach , make disciples of , or instruct , ^ a ^ xet ^ iy , ( Matt , xxviii . 19 , ) relates solely tp adults , and excludes infants , from the sense put on it in the apostolical fathers : thus , the making disciples of , or instructing , is analogous to
Ignatius ' s expression , in which , speaking of himself , he adds , " 1 am now only beginning tobea disciple , lAuOqTevecrBcci ( or to be instructed ) , and I exhort y ou as my fellow-disciples , crv ^ ouBtira ^ Epist . ad Ephcs . e . 3 . So where he is speaking of unbeliever © , he su bjoins * u with respect to them there is a hope that ttey may repent , and be
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On ifcfr . BelshanCs Censure of Mr . Robinson . ( Continued from p . 571 . ) Sir , TiTAVING , in a former letter , «] - JLJL luded to the apostolical writers , VOL . XIII , 4 T
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&n Mr . Behhams Censure of Mr . Robinson . 689
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1818, page 689, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2482/page/25/
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