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    be allowed to be creditable to any work , and to add to the authority of biographical narratives . This

    plea , it is hoped , will be admitted on the present occasion in favouroff Sir , - Your constant reader and friendv

    J . T . September 4 , 1810 . P . S . It will make the list of Mr . Ash down ' s publications more full ,

    if n ^ t complete , by adding to that given in the Monthly Repository for May last , the following Tracts , viz * I . i 6 The character of John

    the Baptist ;' or a free and candid enquiry whether all the disciples of John the Baptist and our Lord ' s , who became such during their ministry , were baptised with the Holy Ghost or not , equally with

    all those who were baptised that became our Lord ' s disciples after his ascension , according to John ' s prophetic declaration in Mat . iii . 10 , 11 . Mark i . 7 , 8 . Luke iii . 16 , 17 . In which , that they were baptised with the Holy Ghost is

    shewn to be highly probable . To which are annexed , several presumptive arguments in proof of tlie genuineness of John ' s prophetic character ; shewing , that he was not merely a Jewish moralist , an impostor , or an enthusiast . 1757 . II . "A Dissertation on

    John iii . 5 . " in which , from arguments entirely new , is fully made appear , from the New Tes - tament , that by the word Spirit is meant •* the word of God ; and

    therefore by being * born of the Spirit" our Lord intended being < 4 born of th < e word of God ;'! like * , wise , that btiplbro , as instituted in the New Testament , is the only initiating right into the kingdom

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    of God , i . e . the New Covenant * 1768 , HI . u The distinction between the common and

    miraculous Gifts of the Hol y Spirit proved to be unscript&ral ; " also , that the promises of it to believe r * in Christ , and their receiving it , demonstrated from the New Tes .

    tament , to be conBned wholly to the apostolic age . To which is added , in a method hitherto un « attempted , several corollaries , containing an effectual antidote

    against , and cure of religious enthusiasm , drawn from the New Testament 1 7 79 . —The first ami second of these Tracts , and also the u Essay on Baptism , " ' are without the author ' s name . The

    titles of these different pieces indicate a mind disposed to diligent and carious research , and to a careful investigation of the Scri ptures , The writer of this well recollects that Dr . Priestley first directed his attention to this

    writer , and recommended his publications to his perusal as those of an 4 < original writer . * ' Dr . Kip * pis , in his edition of Doddridge ' s Lectures , refers to another Tract by Mr * Ashdown , entitled , Ci New

    and Decisive Proofs , from Scri p * ture and Reason , that Adults only are included in the Design of the New Covenant , or the Gospel Dispensation , and were Members of the Church of Christ in the

    Apostolic Age / See vol . ii . p . 390 , note . He mentions him alsd as a writer in the Trinitarian

    controversy-, in a piece with this title , •* Unitarian , Arian , and Trinitarian Opinions , respecting Christ ; examined and tried by Scripture Evidence alone . * Vol . ii . p . 17 '& >

    note . ... ' ., / Since the 30 th of August , the Monthly Repository for that

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    4 SO Biographical Minutidt .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1810, page 480, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2409/page/8/