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t » ans . Infant-baptism claims the authority of hereditary succession . It is not historically correct that ^ no instance occurs for several centuries of any doubt being raised as to the perpetuity of haptism . " " There wanted not sects and heresies , " says the learned Bingham , Antiq . B . x . Ch . ii ., " who in the earliest ages spake very diminutively and
contemptibly of it ( baptism ) ; and either in whole or in part , upon various reasons , rejected or corrupted it . " Amongst the rejecters , he places , on the authority of Theodoret , some of the Gnostics , who have the honour or dishonour of being first in the table of heresy . Irenseus , in the second century , wrote against several sects who added non-baptism to their other
errors . About the year of our Lord 200 , Tertullian took up his pen " against one Quintilla , a woman-preacher at Carthage , a little before his time / ' and her followers , " who set up to decry water-baptism as useless , " adeodicunt , Baptismus non est necessarhu . This chapter of heresiography might be drawn out to a great length . Antiquity is no justification of error , but it is an insufficient proof of truth .
Mr . Marsom contends , we have no doubt justly , that the divers washings ( in the Greek , baptisms ) mentioned Heb . ix . 14 ) , were auto-bapthm . They were still baptisms . The phrase is of no moment except as shewing the scriptural sense of the word .
It is admitted by our author , ( p . 16 , ) that the apostles were not themselves partakers of baptism : in this he presumes great fitness : he may see in one of Mr . Hall's late pamphlets on Baptism , as a term of communion , that the fact may be turned into an argument . The celebrated declaration of the
Apostle Itaul , 1 Cor . i . 17 , Christ sent me not to baptize , presents no difficulty to our author . He understands the apostle to mean that he was sent to baptize not with his own hands , but by the hands of his disciples : in some cases the apostle departed from thiB commission , and baptized manually , which , says Mr . Marsom , ( p . 40 , ) he justly regretted .
Tertullian , in his early day , answered the objections of Anti-Baptists from this passage in a different manner : " Quan ~ quam etsi non eum miserat Christns ad tinguendum , tamen aHis apostolis praeceperat tinguere < - ^ Prins est prsedicare , posterius tinguere . Sed sit prius prsedlcatum , puto autem Hcuit et tinguere , cut licult prwdicare . " De Bart * cap . xi ? .
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Consistently , at least , the author represents ( p . 73 ) , " that it is both uu-^ varrautable and inexpedient to require , as a matter of indispensable necessity , that the minister of a congregation should administer the ordinance of baptism , " and " that there is much impropriety , to say the least , in devolving on him an additional office , to which others are equally competent . " Most Christian ministers , would , we fear , put this into the catalogue of heresies .
The pamphlet is written in an easy and perspicuous style , excepting the few last pages , which seem to be by a younger hand . The writer of the greater part of the pamphlet could never have written such a sentence as the following : "But this magnificent design was only
gradually unfolded , and individual conversion was the first line in the infinite plan , which , extending in various forms through every period of its earthly progress , and traversing the wide range of its operation and influence , would only be lost , at length , in its entire completion .
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Art . VII . —Servian Popular Poetry Translated by John Bowring . 12 mo . pp . 235 . Specime n * of the Polish Poets , with Notes ana Observations on the Literature of Poland . By John BtfWring . 12 mo . pp . 227 * In the prosecution of his liberal and ingenious design of rendering his countrymen acquainted with the poetical
genius of nations to whose literature they have hitherto been strangers , Mr . Bow * ring has , in the two little volumes before us , adventured as far as Servia and Polaud , and has carried away with him another curious and interesting collection of national poetry . The Servian selection consists of a number of short
pieces selected from a volume of poems which are said to have been committed to paper , either from early recollection ' or from the repetition of Servian minstrels . Although it may be a matter of dome doubt how far these productions are genuine specimens of popular poetry .
or how far their ostensible collector may have been indebted for much to his own pen , it must be acknowledged that some of them possess considerable merit in the spirit , simplicity , and sentiments ,, which they displa y * The concluding thought in the following lines is very beautifully expressed :
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1828, page 187, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2558/page/43/
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