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them , and to them only ; that the phrase , " he that believeth and is baptized , shall be saved , " has especial reference to their character and situation ; and in reply to the question , What is thi » s baptism ? he answers , " I believe , a change of character ; doubt dyed into certainty ,
and fear into courage ; a mind thoroughly imbued with a conviction of the resurrectiou of their Lord ; the auswer of a good conscience toward God , and such a submission to the authority of Jesus as would lead them to say , in the very face of death , ' We will obey God rather than men .
In Sect , 3 , the author puts the question , Why did the disciples and apostles use water-baptism , if it formed no part of their commission or of the gospel dispensation ? And replies , that he believes * it arose from a desire to rival John ' s disciples ; and that it was contrary to the will of Jesus for them so to act . " At any rate , he concludes that their having baptized with water is no proof of having a command to do so . He then
proceeds to consider the various cases of baptism mentioned in the Acts . —We shall only repeat his observation , that we may arise from these cursory remarks with very different impressions ; or if we venture an additional observation , it would be , that his attempts to separate the use of water from the term baptize are sometimes overstrained , arising from his notion of the term baptize , which , as our note will shew , is at least a doubtful , if not a false guide .
In Sect . 4 , the author is more successful in shewing that in the apostolic writings the terms baptism and to baptize , have a sense distinct from the use of water . There are remarks upon some passages of Scripture , which , independently of the controversy , are useful as laying open to the general reader of the Bible their meaning and force , particularly upon 1 Pet . iii . 2 , aud Heb . vi . 2 .
Sect . 5 , is occupied- with some miscellaneous passages of Scripture and conclusion , to which we refer our readers . The aim of the conclusion seems to be to shew , if we understand it , that there La a particular body of believers in Christ , with whom a man must connect himself iti order to b « capable of true Christian obedience , and in order to be trtily baptized unto the name of the Lord Jesus .
Whether there is such a body , and where that body is to be found , except in the pious , sincere , and faithful , of all Christian st cts , are great questions . The author is here certainly upon very slippery
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ground , and here We leave him with our good wishes , and the committal of him to that Master " to whom every man standeth or falleth . "
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Art . III . —Miss Macauley's Address to the K \ ng > Legislature y and Population , of the United Kingdom , on the Subject of an Improved System of Mental Cultivation . J . Mardon , 105 , Finsbury . JMiss Macauley is one of those beings who have the discernment to see that < c there's sotnething rotten in the
state of Denmark , " something amiss among a people incessantly forming new plans ( each better than the former ) for the public good , yet abounding more in crime and punishment every year than the last ; but , we fear , she has not found out the remedy . It is really almost comic , if it were not a distressing proof of inconsistency , to find , after she has
informed us that her plan is one of •« selfexamination and self-correction , of turning the expanding mind upon its own resources , " aud of ' * exciting the active powers of the mind , " to read the beginning of the following first mental exercise , " intended for the use of children from five to eleven years of age . " " What is your name ? Auswer . M . or N .
Who made you ? A . God . Who is God ? A . A Supreme Being , the Creator and Governor of the universe , and the benevolent Parent of all human kind . Have you any other parent besides God ?
A . Yes ! I am the offspring of earthly parents . From my father and mother \ derive my birth , under the ordinance of Almighty Glod : and I am fearfully and wouderAilly made , " &c . And this is to develop the mind , to excite its active powers , to turn it upon its own resources ! Spirit of Pestalozzi , hear and marvel ! Again ,
" You say that God is a Supreme Being ; what do you mean by a Supreme Being ? A . Supreme means" ( mind , reader , words must be explained by words ; there is no other way ) " almighty , allwise , all-good , all-powerful , the Creator of all things , the Preserver of all things , and superior to all tilings . "
We are compelled to separate from Miss Macauley on the very threshold of the school-room door , because we think
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118 Critical Notices .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1829, page 118, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2569/page/46/
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