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    The members of the societies to which I refer , declare that they have imbibed their opinions from an attentive perusal of the Sacred Scriptures , without being in the least indebted to human writings . Their ideas on the strictness of church discipline , they consequently urge , have been derived from this fountain of wisdom ; but if anv one can clearly shew that they have

    mistaken the sense of the scriptural maxims and rules on this head , I have no doubt of their being open to conviction and following superior light . I beg leave to give you a sketch of the principal arguments , if I understand them aright , on which their practices are grounded-They consider truth all-important : they assert tharthe Scriptures have revealed in a definite manner certain doctrines and

    rules of practice which constitute the truth : that all charity or liberality which is not founded on the truth , and consistent with the love of it , is spurious : that Christian fellowship is fellowship in the truth , and therefore no communion ought to be held with those who either deny the truth , or do not walk

    in the open profession of it : that whatever God has revealed is a part of the truth , and that it does not become us to judge concerning its relative importance , but to believe that all the branches of this truth are of like importance . Following up these principles , they npt only judge that it is unlawful to join in acts of worship with Trinitarians , or those who maintain

    wrong notions concerning the object of worship , but even * with those who maintain right notions relating to the object of worship , if they differ from-them in any doctrinal idea , and more particularly if they are not agreed with them on the subject of baptism , and have not actually submitted to that institution according * to their mode of administration . To such an extreme

    o do they carry their views of baptism , that they require a person to be re-baptized on entering their community , who has been previously baptized by the Calvinistic Baptists , or by any other denomination of Baptists than their own . In defence of their discipline respecting baptism they plead , that their

    practice , both as to the mode and subjects of baptism , is exclusively the scriptural one : that there is no instance in the New Testament of any person being admitted into the church but through the door of baptism : that no person destitute of bap * tism can be recognised as a Christian : that consequently no

    society ought to be considered as a Christian society which has not been baptized , and that therefore no teacher who is not baptized ought to be allowed , even occasionally , to officiate amongst them as a Christian teacher , nor can they have communion , in acts of worship , with persons unbaptized , whether in public or in private , as Christian brethren . If these opinions

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    462 Unitarian Baptists zn Yorkshire .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 462, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/14/