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    suge iii it : " The mystery of the everrblessecl Trjaity wquid , perhaps , he instanced by ^ many orthodox Chris tians , as a doctrine less directly taught in the book ^ f life , than its supreme importance and fundamental character wpuld : have led them to anticipate . But in proportion to its' awful importance would tradition be active : in

    suggesting a doctrine , which , when thus suggested , is established to the satisfaction of the great majority of thoughtful Christians , by continual implication of it throughout both the volumes of reveiatipn ^ The mantle of Postellus seems to have fallen upon our author , when he talks of both

    the volumes : but to be grave and confine ourselves to the latter , vfaould he have had occasion for this " desperately fcandid" admission , if thecon * temporaries of the apostles , when € S they received the washing of bap *

    tisiii / ' could have as ii&turally referred to the extraordinary '" form of the sacrament as enjoined by our Lord himself to his disciples , as /* he says , " Eusebius afterwards did" ? Had it been as familiar to the Apostle Pd . ul-.-a 8 it seems to have been to the

    good Bishop of Csesarea , would every peaedictioh in the front of his epistles haye run in the iiame of God the Pathsr , and of pur Lord Jesus Christ , and closed ' without any reference to the Hcfly Spirit ? Woufd a solitary sernblaafce ^ of such a reminiscence ( a

    sembl ^ igce , I say , iu compliment to the advocates of the orthodox doctrine , tor . the aircangeme ^ t and phraseology ^ p ^ ar . to me' completely to negative it ) Iwgur at the conclusion of one of hi $ ; E ^ stles to the Cotiathlnas ? Undc # : Uk 3 circumstances , how would

    anyone of his Athariasian successors in dffiqQ salute the objects of Ms address ? We want no better proof of what they would and must have done than tM # ery Reasonable stipplement of oui ^ pwn reformers to " The peace of God which passeth all

    understanding , " &c . Ag it is my design in the present ^ ssay rather to invite than attempt discussion , I shall conclude it vrith a

    collateral remark or tvvo . The whole ei ^ ejnsgtj ^ , of the arguinent opposed to tJti ^ ti pp ^ ipn ; which mwy Unitairi ^ js im common with myself , I apprehend , entertain , ( I ; ^ r ^ jue from theiib sup-, posing it optional to baptise in the

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    n # m $ of the imL wliyh they mrmy never < mM 4 oi if } th ^ J ^ li ^ d m $ S ^ vi ofiir to h ** y& pr ^ orlbgct , % pftffiBt the orfclicKioxjEwm *} lie § m . the > gpn& rally-admitted « renuiueness of the t ^ jt * Of this , thei MS §* ajivwi ^ da

    the evidence , Butt ^ ¦ th § y consider thi ^ evidence as d ^ eisfe ^ e . veji of this ? If it could be p £ QX £ df bgypad the possibility of coiitradijction , that H ^ rod was de ^ d befo re th ^ j Messiah was born , would evidence of this kind establish

    the genuineness of the vvhole first chapter of St . Matthew ? But the desicter ratum there ( an incontestable fact ) is here supplied . The apostles invariably BAPTIZED IN THE NAME . OlP

    the Lohd : if \ ye may believe their historian , there is uniform evidence of : this baptism in the Scripture , md there is no evidence of any other . Now if the Ctf Acts" be authentic narof

    rative , wh 4 ) t beciD ^ nes geauineness of . the rfeceiv ^ d commission ? Biit the obloquy that would attach to the avowal ! the prejudice that it would do to the sect and the cause ! I admit the objection in its fullest force ; , without beiag a convert to the infereuce . Both averments cannot be

    true ., that the Lord ordained baptism in the name of the Father , &c ., a » d that the apostles practised it in the name of the Son only . Infidels we must be , M to the one assertion or the other * And . if the scandal of the

    more unpopular infidelity be the more to be deprecated , let us console our-. selves in the ^ xclamatipn , which we may triumphantly repeat , " Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more thau unto God , J iidge ye . For we cannot bat speak the things whfch we have seen and heard . ' * An Apostolic Christian .

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    26 Mh Button Priestley * * Wofk $ > &Q >

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    " An Original . Subscriber , " if really a subscriber , would more readily have gained the information lie requires , and mightihave beoi ; 3 relievedirom the bur-, then of his subscription ^ had he written inimediately to me . It is , indeed ^ difficult not to suppose that he preferred , under the safeguard of an anonymous

    Clapton , SfB , January 4 , 1824 . YOU ought not to have been troubled with , tfye letter mentioned ia the last pag-eof Vol . XVIH . and which you Have communicated to me as the Editor of Dr » Priestley ' s Works

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1824, page 26, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2520/page/26/