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in December ; 1827 , in the- Western Reserve , Ohio . Mr , Campbell , however , from the beginning , appears to have cooperated in the measure , and to have done more by his writings , than all other causes put together , to give it currency and stability . A correspondent of the New York
1 Baptist Register / unfriendly ' . to the reform , says , in 1829 , ' Mr . Camphell ' s paper and their vigorous missionary efforts are making great achievements . It is said that one half of the Baptist churches in Ohio have embraced this sentiment , and become what they call Christian Baptists .
It is spreading , like a mighty contagion , through the Western states , wasting Zion in its progress . In Kentucky its desolations are said to be even greater than in Ohio . ' In one instance , a large Association became infected as one man , and voted itself extinct as an ecclesiastical body ,
that it might make room for the restoration : i-if—the—ancient ^ order--anddiscipline . The innovation found its way , also , into churches of other denominations ; and cases are mentioned of Universalist and Methodist ministers , who came over to it , and were immersed for the remission of their sins .
* Ancient Gospel . Faith , Repentance , Baptism , Remission , Holy Spirit , Resurrection , 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 God , Christ , Holy Spirit , Evidence , 2 Conversion , Reconciliation , 3 Remission , Obedience , Regeneration , Washing , &c . 4 Pardon , N . Covenant , Justification , Adoption , Salvation , 5 Sanetification , Illumination , &c . 6 Judgment , Eternal Life , Punishment .
' Ancient Order , Government , Worship , Ordinances , Discipline , Man . and Cus ,, Litera . 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 Officers , Treasury , &c . 2 Prayer and Singing , Reading , Ex . Teaching , Preaching , ' 8 Baptism , Lord ' s Supper , Collection , 4 Private , Public , and Mixed Offences , Examined , 5 Hospitality , Holy Kiss , S . Hands , Emb ., Washing Feet , 6 Old and New Testament , &c /—Evangelist , vol . i , p . 93 .
Orthodoxy in alarm flew , as usual , to anathemas , proscriptions , and excommunications ; in consequence of which it is intimated that not a few , who had been most eager for reform in societies where they constituted but ^ small minority ,
re-JiH 4 QILtejap . Qri 2 . ejd —The ^ faithful , however , rallied in considerable numbers , especially in West Virginia , West * Pennsylvania , Ohio , Kentucky , and Tennessee , and formed themselves into distinct societies , according to what they conceived to be the primitive constitution of the Church .
In point of influence , property , and general intelligence , it would seem , that , as a body , they fall below the Christians , and perhaps the Methodists . This will help , perhaps , to ex-plain the fact , that , notwithstanding their rational and liberal views on most subjects , the y have already suffered considerably from the irruptions of fanaticism . "
Much is said m the writings of the Reformers of . the 4 Ancient Gospel , ' and the « Ancient Order of things . ' The following table will , in some measure , explain what is meant .
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UNITARIAN CHRONICI / E . 41
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1833, page 41, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2607/page/9/
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