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with many valned fellow-students , of the superior advantages afforded at the Manchester College , York ; and to add , that advancing studies , growing experience , and increasing acquaintance with other academical Institutions , only serve to
strengthen this feeling aud impression . That the Institution has no Important defects , and admits of no improvements , it would be folly indeed to maintain ; bilt 1 am inclined to think , perhaps it may be from very partial acquaintance with the Unitarian public , that such as
it is , it is not duly appreciated amongst us . One strong evidence of this appears to be the great indifference manifested about sending to York young men , with
previous education , properly qualified to make the most of its advantages , and from a sphere of life which naturally gives them some influence in society . For my own part , I esteem it no mean
ambition , rather indeed a debt due to the supporters of that Institution , to shew that they have not been thrown away upon one who is inseusvble of their value , and to endeavour to prove worthy , as far as Providence may permit , of my humble and unpretending , but generous aud noble-minded , Alma Mater . EDWARD TAGABT .
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Authenticity of a Part of the Baptismal Commission . To the Editor .
Sir , Pentonvitte , Nov . 4 t 1329 . In the Critical Notice of " A Few Words of Obvious Truth , " &c , in your last number , it is said , " The alleged discrepancy between the practice of the apostles , who are uniformly recorded t 6 have baptized in the name of Christ , and the language in Matt , xxviii . 19 , is indeed a formidable one to all , whether Trinitarian or Unitarian , who hold that
our Lord Was , by that language , instituting a positive rite . We should certainly have expected in that case—nay , we should have deemed it obligatory , that the verba ipsisslma of the Founder should have been employed , whenever the rite was performed . Yet even then the supposition of forgery would have been a desperate resource for the removal of the discrepancy . It is one-which they have no occasion for who think that Christ was not then instituting a ceremony , but alludinir to a practice . "—P . 785 .
Now , Sir , a word or two with the writer of this paragraph . He talks of the alleged discrepancy between the command of Christ aud the practice oi
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the apostles . —Where is the proof of it f In the command the form is given at full length ; it is not so given in the re-Cord of the practice : but the omission by the historian is no proof of an omission by the administrator . Suppose a similar case . —Our Sovereign is styled King of Great Britain and Ireland , ( it
used to be " of Great Britain , France ., and Ireland , " ) and I presume is proclaimed by that title . Now , let any historian , in the course of his narrative , tell us , " on the day after the death of his father , George IV . was proclaimed King of Great Britain" ( or perhaps " King of England" ) ; should we from thence be entitled to argue that the form was discontinued ? I think not . Nor
are we authorized to infer from the brief account in " the Acts of the Apostles , " that these discontinued the use of the form prescribed b y their Master . We have evidence that it was not laid aside , in the question which Paul piit to the disciples at Ephesus ( who told him they had . not so much as heard that there was any Holy Spirit ) — " Unto what then were ye baptized > " ¦ Acts xix . 3 .
Again , the writer thinks Christ was not instituting a ceremony , but alluding to a practice . Alluding indeed ! Allow me to give the allusion at full length . — - "Go ye and teach ( make disciples of ) all nations , baptizing them in ( into ) the name of the Father , and of the Son , and of the Holy Spirit . Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have
commanded you :, and lo , I am with you alway , even unto the end of the world ( or age ) . " Now , Sir , if this is not commanding the observance of a ceremony , ( whether existing previously or not , is of no consequence , ) I should like to know what is . And how did the apostles understand him ? When Peter bad , under the influence of the Holy Spirit ,
preached to the Jews , on the day of Pentecost , so forcibly that they were pricked to the heart , he replied to their anxious inquiry , if Men and brethren , what shall we do ?"— ( t Repent and be baptized every one of you , in the name of Jesus Christ , for the remission of sins , and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit , " &c . Here , Sir , I suppose is another allusion to a practice .
If baptism were a practice of the Jews in Christ ' s day , ( of which there is verf little evidence , ) it was a tradition of thfc elders . Is it likely that aft so solemn a time , and in such manner , he ^ wbfrtd have alluded to one of those traditionary practices of which he spoke with such reprobation on other occasions ? And
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Miscelldneons Correspondence . 879
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1829, page 879, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2579/page/63/
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