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    profaned by the names of worldly disputants , that have substituted theft conceits for scriptural truths : and particularly the unhallowed name should never be Used . This , indeed ,

    might be useful at all meetings ; for the church being bound only by the commands of our Saviour , and having in view the preservation of its otvn members , need never attend to the disputes of other communities .

    If ota the perusal of the above , the reader should feel , that the principles here laid down are in the true spirit of -the Christian religion , and should wish to aid in the formation of a church of this deecriptioti , the writer will be happy to meet him , and to confer with him on the best mode of putting the

    plan ifito execution . A very few persons are necessaiy to join together at first , and if only half a dozen should be found like-minded , it is to be hoped that , under Divine Providence , the number will speedily increase . The writer has sensibly felt the want of such an Institution ; and he believes that many more are in the same situation . It is

    high time to wake out of sleep , to act wifch energy , that the body , of which Oirfet is the head , may be formed ; and all may have the opportunity of being edified , instructed , and mutually participating with each other in the benefits of the heavenly dispensation .

    The publisher is authorised to receive the communications of those persons who are disposed to meet on the above plan , with any improvements which may be by them

    suggested . The writer will give them a meeting to discuss the subject , and to promote the object of such an institution * The Scriptures are the only basis ; on them the men of this dav basis ; on them the men of this day

    are as competent to judge a 3 those of any age after the time of the apostles . To the test of the Scriptures the whole of the conduct of the church is to be brought : and when it is considered how much the Christian spirit has been quenched by a departure from

    this rule , and adopting the traditions of men in their stead , it is presumed , that , by keeping steadfastly our eyes on the plain and simple commands of our Saviour , and avoiding all controversies with those who are guided by other rules , a church may be formed , in which the members will feel daily an increasing interest in divine truth , and

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    be more and more capable of drawing others to acknowledge its gracious influence . To all who love the Lord Jesus in truth and sincerity , these few hints are humbly suggested by one whose prayer is for the establishment and enlargement of his church , and who would rather be a door-keeper in the house of God than dwell at ease in the tabernacle of ungodliness . P .

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    40 fr On « Memoir of R 6 ger Williams .

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    Clapton , Sir , July 3 , 1821 . OBSERVE in the Account of I * the General Baptist Assembly , " ( p . 373 , ) that there is an expectation encouraged , which it is very uncertain

    whether it may ever be m my power to satisfy . It must , indeed , be gratifying to any one who has cultivated some attachment to the great interests of mankind , to bring together what can now be recovered respecting the life of such a man as Roger Williams ,

    one of those lights shining in a dark place , which deserve to be in perpetual remembrance . But , besides some Indispensable present engagements , which forcibly remind me of Dr . Priestley ' s motto , ars longa , vita brevis . the materials which I have ,

    conveniently at hand , are insufficient for the purpose . These are Hutchinson ' s " History of Massachusetts , " and Backus ' s " History of New England , with particular reference to the denomiv nation of Christians called Baptists . " To the reading of Backus ' s

    History a few years ago , I was indebted for nearly all I know of Roger Williams , except what is to be learned from his only work in my possession , " The Bloody Tenent of Persecution

    for cause of Conscience , discussed in a Conference between Truth and Peace , " dedicated " to the Right Honourable and renowned Patriots—the high Court of Parliament . " That work was printed in 1644 , in London , where the author

    had arrived to procure , by the assistance of his friend Sir Henry Vane , who had been governor of New England in 1636 , and was then one of the commissioners for the colonies , a

    charter for the " Incorporation of Providence Plantations , " the lands which he had purchased from the Indians in 1638 ; and which now form the state of Rhode Island . There , as noticed in your XVth Vol , p- 304 ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1821, page 400, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2502/page/20/