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    that the practice of the early church is no authority , since it is notorious that immediately after the times of the apostles , and indeed during their lives , many wretclied superstitions and corruptions crept into religious

    worship . * There is the sanction of ages in unbroken succession up to the third or even secotid century for baptism , but then there is the same sanction for godfathers , the sign of the cross , exorcism , chrism and other usages , which most Protestants would

    regard as contemptible frivolities . t The historical argument for baptism and for Holy Orders appears to us parallel : the true question with regard to both is , what is the scriptural

    evidence of the design of the Great Author of our religion to make them permanent ? Mr . Belshani next proceeds to de ~ scribe the two sects of Methodists , the Arminian and the Calvinistic , In a note , the characters of Whitfield and Wesley are well sketched . Great

    in quani nemo unqnam receptus fuerit , quiii prius aqua baptizatus esset . Isthaec ratio nullius ponderis idcirco censenda est , quia in ipsa id sumitur pio concesso , quod nunquam probabitnr . Nam quomodo unquam de isto perpeluo Ecclesioe usu docebimur ? In liistoria certe a Luca

    de actis apostolicis conscripta , qua * nt ante omnes Ecclesiasticas historias perseripta fuit , sic omnium certissima est , imo sola inter omnes indubitata habetur , istius lisas initiuin non apparet . Quin potius ex ea , si aliquid hue pertinens colligi potest , contrariuin collig-itur . De Bapt Aqua ; Disp . c . xv . p . 123 .

    * Quod si morem istum de quo amhigim « Sj ab ipso Ecclesiac initio receptum fuisse non constat , quid attinet consequentium annoruni morem usumque ex historicis , quautumvis gravibus- et veritlicis afferre , maxim e cwna pal am sit ,

    statiin post apostoloium mortem , quinetiatn ipsis apostolis adl \ uc viventibus , multas aniles superstitiones , multas diviru cultus corruptelas , multas denique hsereses in Ecclesiam irrepsisse , eamque perturbasse * Ib . p . 128 .

    -f The proofs of this statement may be seen in JB . Joach . Hildehrandi Rituale Baptismz Veteris ^ published in 4 to . at Helmstad , by J , A . Scbmidius . This slutbor lays down a principle which may be necessary to sanction the use of baptism &ii 4 especially infant baptism , but which ^ vould justify equally the worst superstitions of the Church of Rome : Ubi imprimis itoUudvjm , quod lua ^ ui ^ pure ri-

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    Rtvieib . —Broadbent ' s Two PosthuMmis Sermons * f 65

    merit is allowed to the Methodists , as moral reformers . Then follow the Quakers , who are lightly censured for their occasional illiberality towards some of their members , and highly commended for their large contributions to the cause of general humanity . An animated picture of the Unitarians closes the descriptive part of the sermon . The reflections are , 1 . on the attention paid to religion as creditable and advantageous ,

    2 . on the absence of persecution from the abundant religion of the country , S . on the happy consequences of religious liberty , and 4 . on the duty of Christians to seek after truth , to avow it , to be charitable to such as err , and to vie with each other in love and good works .

    tuum Eeclesiac a Judoeis et Ethnicis fuerit desumpta Cum cnim . hi infidetes ad fide it * Cliristi aigre dncerentur , ideo quod religion Christiana nova , adeoque falsa videretur primi X > d . Ecclesiae , Apostoli viriqiie Apostolici pi « stratag-emate usi , ex . profan is sacris infidelium multos ritus et

    institiita retinuerunt , eaque ad sua sacra acconiodarunt . — Et hoc aitificio vet . Christian ! opinionern novitatis , quac vei maxime Ethnicos a . religioue Christiana averti snnt aiaoliti . P . 1 . He proceeds to point out instances of this elegans convenientia inter Gent ilium et Christ iqniorum mysterlet * Pp . 3 ~ 11 *

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    —¦ Art . IV—The Folly of Vice and the Wisdom of Virtue ; represented in Two Discourses by the late Rev . Thomas Biggin Broadbent , A . M . The first of which was delivered at the Unitarian Chapel in Warrington , ou Sunday November % 1817 : the latter , which was finished on Saturday the 8 th , having b ^ en prevented from being delivered the day following , by the sudcTen death of the Author on the morning of that day , iu the twenty-fifth year of his age . To which is annexed an Address delivered at his Interment , by the Rev . J . G . Ftobberds , of

    Manchester . 8 vo . pp . 64 . Hunter . MR . BELSHAM ' s Memoir of the Author of these Discourses , in the four first pages of our present Volume , has informed the readerof the affecting circumstances under which this publication issues from the press . It is the most honourable monument ** ' •¦ *• ¦»•*•* ¦¦ ill *—*¦¦• 'Hi" ¦ ¦¦ "' ¦ ¦¦••¦ »¦ - ' - ¦¦¦¦¦»•— . ifc ¦¦ ta . ii . ¦ i ¦ _ , * - ¦< ¦ 'i ,. t . i .,, M' « m —« .. , „„ i , « , „ ^

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 765, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/37/