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c ^ 4 §^ nf 0 ? ? mm m t && * WhMr igJH ^^^^^ Jff" ^ ISW ^ ^ m * & ; J ^ r M * W & ^ "ty ityfefc . ^ v 9 ^** PfV& ty r ^ particul a rly reeoinm qn d £ fn&r £ anslderatipa to ths attepti W ° f M - NoaU Jones # nd those < conscientious perspns who are
scand a lized by the intermixture of Unbelievers with Unitarian worshipers ancf churches . , W ^ are not disposed to attribute ^ extraordinarypractical uses to baptism , ( for we halo . the divine authority of its permanent obligation on grounds wholly Independent of and prior to all considerations of
obvious expediency or utility , and therefore cannot canscientiously compromise the question by rnixiog up these with the arguments ) i > ut we do think it no bad test of Christian sincerity and resolution : and if it were made indispensable to membership , ( which I do not recomnjend or
advocate , ) we feel quite sure that it would have sufficient efficacy to wash away such impurities from even Unitarian , churches as obstinate and avowed Unbelievers . Whatever affinity there
inay be between Unitarian Christians and Unitarian Deists and Cas it appears ) difficulty of disuniting them , the pool of baptism ( as an eloquent lecturer we believe chooses to term
it ) would be a gulf of separation between them , through which there would be very little danger of drugging the rejectors of divine revelation . Some of them may comply with the easy , harmless ceremony of infant sprinkling" or infant dedication :
they may in despite of such solemn apostolic language as eating and drinking condemnation , even partake of the Lord ' s Supper : but it is presumed they would shrink with a sort ofh ydrophobic sensitiveness from going down into the water in the primitive Christian manner of apostolic practice . *
The Editor of Dr . Priestley ' s Works Uas remarked in a note , Vol . V . p . f 83 , •* There is , probably , an increasing number , at least among Unitarian ^ who consider baptism as having
Q place among professing Christians , such as have already made the pro ,. Jessiou for which ^ Igqe the rite of W ^ siii , . appears to have been . Jnsti-JS ^ ea / ' And \ xx anp ^ er note , Vol . n * -ft .. 335 , h& quotes tihes p yy or ^ s of
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. j ( W ^ fSm ? i $ smjr ^^^ Mf ^ i ^ sf ^^ & ^ W jSi ^^^ S ^^* Uan co untry ,- 1 an * s ^ ' ^ f %% Jfc loss whether these t \ Vo s % t ^ e ^ V ^" a ^ to be taken as essentially identi ^ S 1
and whether any tiringmore p ^ iSeMutf by " professing Christians" than Bf ; " the inhabitants of a Christian coi £ ntry . ^ Win the candid Editor * pt toxti of those wko consider baptism aaliaYiog ao place among professijig Ctjirli- ^ tians , favour us with soin ^ e expl an ation and developenaent of tHe princ ^ lfe on which they consider baptisni tp
have np place ? If any thing of a , persona ] and actual profession hp meant , will they have the goodness to " defiae what kind flad quaaturn and durat ^ oo of it annul the obligation of baptism or supersede the use of it and render subinissioo to it improper or uniiecessary ? This information I seek for jio mere controversial pur- '
po&e or in the hope of triumpKirxg over opponents - I > bnt if can trasl my own consciousness , with ^ higher view and with . all the disintere&tedness of religious feeling * though ia one respect I arn deeply interested in th ^ questipa—for it Is as much an affair
of conscience as of tjie under ^ taiujin ^ with we . . . . ,. ¦¦ . ' ;] . ; , ^ I had intended to tafce m ^ Q % ftMv notice of the commuiiicatibn " ' ^ if "^ fyjfr J . Jones , but I am not niuch satiated with what I have already # tl ^ rett upon it , and feel no inclination ^ t |' proceed , for I have no coiyJejtidii ^ to expediency or moral awfafoge * The Doctor will probably write a ^ r ply , but I have no intention 6 f wHt ; in ^
a rejoinder . A word more at parting . Your correspondent has reinarked , th ^ . jt I treat my adversaries with tpo little ceremony . This is one of the soiiiitfTest and justest remarks Jn the com ~
munication . I am cpayinced of its t ^ ruth and mus t plead guilty to | | ie charge , and perhaps I li ^ ave heaped ^ more guilt on the present occasion : yet I can sincerely assure pr , Jii fli ^ that so far from iatendjng e $ bpr | t < offend Qr burf him , - \ t was j ^ y e ^ rjji ^ : wish to tre « tf , him ^ s cpre iqri ^ ioTO ^ and respectfully 6 ^ 3 g ^ l y & ^ g ^ E ble ^ ^ nij sucfy wfa + m i ^| c& ^ || H appreliea ^ igji iti ^ itw ^ g "Wfttttt W ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1826, page 515, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2552/page/7/
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