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him , ( and her voice he would , I trust , have heard as imperative and decisive , ) that his duty was patient resignation to the will of his heavenly Father ; that he must trust in the name of the
Lord ; that he must rest his hope upon him ; and , in the . exercise of quiet submission to that will which is the wisest and the best , seek for some portion of the peace which they commonly possess , whose minds are stayed
upon God . " The preacher concluded with some directions of religious wisdom , which the mournful event can scarcely fail to suggest and enforce in the serious , reflecting mind .
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Mr . Fox ' s Remarks . W . J . Fox returns the letter of the Unitarian Baptist to the Editor of the Monthly Repository , and will be obliged to him , should he publish it , to subjoin the following remarks .
1 . An anonymous writer who publicly calls on a preacher " to reconcile his assertions with truth and charity , " and who characterizes those assertions as partially or altogether false , should , at least , be correct in his quotations . The only reference to Baptists , in the lecture on Antichrist , was in the
following sentence , in an attempt to shew that the assumption of dominion over conscience was not confined to the Church of Rome or to Protestant establishments : Even Dissenters play their little game of tyranny r , and make Christians pass to the Lord ' s table through the pool of Baptism , or under
the forks of the Assembly ' s Catechism . 2 . That what I actually did say gave offence , I know and lament , but cannot help . The fact is undeniable , that many Dissenting churches refuse the Lord ' s Supper to believers in Christianity , because they have not been baptized , or do not believe in
the Assembly ' s Catechism , and on various other pretexts ; and it certainly is my opinion , that such exclusion is unchristian and tyrannical . There is no warrant for it in the New
Testament . The great law of Christian fellowship is , Receive ye one another 9 as Christ hath received you , to the glory of God . My words could only refer to those who maintain that churches have nower to ' decree rites or
ceremonies , ' or confessions of faith , as pre-requisites to Christian communion 3 and if the Unitarian Baptist be one of this class , I advise him to study the subject of Religious Liberty in the writings of Robert Robinson .
3 . That Mr . Evans introduced mixed communion at Worship Street , and that it is practised by his and other Baptist Churches , is very honourable to the liberality of the parties concerned . 1 hope they practise it on a
better principle than some Paedobaptist churches , where Baptists , though admitted to the Lord ' s table , are yet considered as upon toleration only , and not entitled to full membership . The Baptists at Parliament Court give themscJYes none of these airs of supe-
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sort of menace , beyond sending it to the gentleman whom it concerned ; but he having- returned it , with remarks , we now give both papers to the reader . London ,
Sir , November 6 , 1818 . UNDERSTANDING that the Rev . Mr . Fox , in his opening lecture on Antichrist , at Parliament Court , last Sunday evening , was pleased to speak of the Baptists as dragging people through the water /'
I call on that gentleman to reconcile his assertion with truth and charity . He must know that Baptist ministers act on conviction , and those baptized by them are voluntarily yielding obedience to the positive command of Jesus Christ .
I also understand that Mr . Fox added , that " the Baptists kept away from the Jx > rd ' s table persons as good , if not better , than themselves !" . As the former declaration was altogether false , so the present allegation is only partially true . The church over which he presides was ( and it ought not to
be forgotten by him ) a Baptist Churchy and held y * ree communion , as also does the neighbouring General Baptist Congregation at Worship Street , under the <; are of Mr . Evans , who introduced mixed communion , amongst them . It is , indeed , the case with respect to many churches amongst the Particular and General Baptists . AN UNITARIAN BAPTIST .
Letter relating to Mr . Fox , with his Remarks , [ The following letter being : anonymous , we had intended to make no use of it , especially as it was accompanied by a
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702 Letter relating to Mr . Foxf with his Remarks .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1818, page 702, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2482/page/38/
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