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inunication from him ; but , were it even so , tempora mutantur et nbs mutamur in illis .
ISRAEL WORSLEY . P . S . Unitarian Endowments . — An endowment of a hundred pounds was left to one of our societies in the West , and the interest long enjoyed by the minister , but the nephew of
the managing trustee becoming minister , as a matter of delicacy it was withheld from him and given to a Calvinistic minister of the same town . This nephew some tirne after removed from the town , and the five pounds came back to the use of the minister
who succeeded him , upon which a clamour was made , " that the bequest was for the minister of that church , if he preached the doctrines of the Assembly ' s Catechism , and that the present minister , as well as his predecessor , was a Unitarian . "—< c To whom then , " said the Trustees ,
" must we pay it ? Have you any claim to it ? If you have , shew the ' grounds of your claim ; and if they are just , you shall have the money . " They could shew none , and the money has been since regularly paid to the Unitarian minister of the meeting , to which the principal was originally given . _^ i
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think that any modern form it has assumed , or can assume , will justly entitle it to our approbation and
adoption . That the question may be fairly and pretty fully considered , it will be proper , first of all , that a succinct sketch should be exhibited of the practice of ordination among the Presbyterian Dissenters , with the opinions entertained concerning its nature and
importance . During the short reign of Presbyterianism , in the time of the Commonwealth , the Presbyterians held the power of admission to , and exclusion from , the ministerial office , as absolutely as it is now enjoyed by the prelates of the Established Church ;
they claimed and exercised the spiritual power with as high pretensions ; they professed as confidently to confer the Holy Ghost ( or , at least , that the Holy Ghost was at the ordination conferred ) i and , for any thing I have ever known to the contrary , their claim and pretensions were equally wellfounded . See extracts from the
Register of the Manchester Classis in some former volumes of the Monthly Repository . In the preface to a Sermon at the Ordination of Mr . Samuel Clark , of St . Albans , Sept . 17 , 1712 , by
Jeremiah femith , an account is given , by Dr . Daniel Williams , " of the method and solemnity of Presbyterian ordinations ;' from which , I think , your readers will be gratified , and , I hope , instructed , with the following extracts :
" The course of their [ students' ] studies being finished , and their behaviour promising , they are at a fit age presented before such of our pastors as are appointed to examine candidates for the ministry .
" I hese ministers require the proposed person "—( Here I shall only give the substance of the account , for the sake of brevity)—to write an exegesis in Latin , on some controverted point , to maintain the orthodox side of the question against all opponents
in the same language ; afterwards to preach in English on a given text ; and , finally , to be strictly examined in Greek and Hebrew ; also in philosophy , scripture chronology and casuistical divinity . If the ministers approve of his seriousness and the sufti-
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214 The Rev . John Rawlet . —On Ordination Services .
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Sir , April 20 , 1825 . rTTlHE Rev . John Rawlet , mentioned . ' in p . 144 of the present volume of the Monthly Repository , was a very pious and worthy man . He was the
author of a book very much in use at the beginning of the last century , entitled / " The Christian Monitor : " he was also the author of other pious works . K—x .
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Sir , April 16 , 1825 . MUST confess , while I entertain I the most friendly feelings towards Mr . Baker and his friends , that I have been able to learn from his
communication , inserted in your last number but one , ( pp . 81—83 , ) neither what the modern and unobjectionable ordination is , on what authority it is grounded , nor what good purposes it is calculated to answer ; while I know what it used to be among the old Presbyterians , and how objectionable it was in various respects ; nor do I
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1825, page 214, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2535/page/22/
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