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•* Newmsfion Green , Sir , Augittt \ 2 \ 1 m 6 \ WITH y&V * r ptfrmSSsioft I offer a few remarks in the Monthly Repository ^ twi : the < rbrtjTOUnf € atioti of ytftfr Higetiiow ^ Correspondent Dr . J . fortes on the Perpetuity of Baptism ( f > p ; & 95 ^ -390 ) . It is not my intention to < coii 6 fder the merits " of the
Doctor ' s ^ ctttiRbtihicati 6 rt , as it may he tfentfttfma&ed siti g-enerib . This is a tfosk for \ t 4 iteli Iain wot well qualifiedand ' therefore I willingly consign it to the Critical Synopsis of the Monthly Repository for July 1826 . It is my intention to select if possible such particulars as seem to have
{ something : in common with the opihkms and arguments usually ranged on the side of rion-perpetmtff . Of course I have little to rethark UJ >< mi , for my own deliberate purpose precludes we from all that id ' most ingenious , original and recondite—in fact , the greatest part of the Doctor ' s
statement . J admire these qualities and the author ' s mental energy and independence , and his honesty and freedom and courage in propounding and advocating his peculiar opinions however singular or strange they may appear to others .
i must , however , qualify my encomium by confessing , that the last communication of your correspondent greatly disappointed me , for it is not so original by far as I anticipated . I expected to find a fourth theory of unti-bapium whoJlv new and unheard
<> f : whereas the hypothesis of Dr . Jones , if I do not very much mistake , is essentially the same as that of Robert Barcla ' y . Whether it was not iiiomiikfely to produce convincement »« its--plain primitive simplicity than in its
new cumbrous garb is somewhat doubtful . Robert Barclay was J ^ nious and theoretic as well as £ ^ ones » but there is a plainness W Speech , a mattei < . of-fac : t and logical ^ P })^ rance , and withal a consistency a *>< nit-his affirmations admirably fitted
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hitoself did not practise th ^ *> ne but personally ittstifttt ^ r Irti e ofher ? If this be tiot ^ s % ofptfoii ft mtist be some such logic / &s the fbltovving ' : Christ did not practise baptism , thei'efore Christ did dot institute baptism
or appoint it to be practised . But so far from ineukf&titig wtiter baptism he * ' abrogated and cancelled it ** in his own person , by being baptized of John in Jordari ^ a nd for this we have the authority of Dr . J 6 ne « s declaration . Moreover Christ further
-abrogated Water baptisiil in his commission to the apostles , Go , teadh all fiafti&m , baptising- them . The proof of Whitfh is contained in the follo \ vtng rnethorable words : He [ Ciiristjdelkieatfcs the divine doctrine whi (^ lie
had taught them [ the apostlesj fottd ^ r the figure of three satered sfcrea&is , [ Father , Son and Holy Spir it , if We understand the ingenious and le ^ fft ^ d author , ] and he enjoin ^ Upon th ^ tn to go and bring the nations of the world to their brink , and there Hot to
administer cups full to their ears dr to their lips , but to take arid plii i ^ e them in , and there detain them t ? U every sense should be filled , till evefy sin should be washed away , till their minds imbibed new ideas , new hopes ,
new dispositions , and till their character assumed all the brightness that human imperfection can admit . In the ceremony thus to be administered there was [ perhaps no is omitted by mistake ] literal water , and the baptism meant was very different from that for which Mr . Gilchrist
contends . " It was not my intention , when I sat down and took up my pert , to meddle with such a sublime passagfc , and now that 1 have yielded td the temptation of quoting it , 1 bad Itetter , perhaps , acknowledge my dulness ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1826, page 513, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2552/page/5/
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