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    as having six sons , of whom Juhn , the eldest , was my ancestor , apd the next to him was Josiali . I take it for granted he was born at Preston , that , being the family residence ; but where he was educated or where he ended his days I

    cannot say , whether at Norwich or elsewhere . I have no particulars to communicate concerning him , and can only add that h < 3 was ever mentioned by the family as one that bore a very respectable character . I am , Sir , Your ' s respectfully THOMAS ASHLEY .

    P . S . If I am not mistaken , Mr , Chorley left two hundred pounds in the hands of trustees , the interest of one hundred to be given annually to the minister at Preston , and of the other hundred to the poor of that place .

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    A curious Baptism by John Wesley . Sir , The baptism described by Adam Clarke ( M . Rep . 410 , 411 . ) needs no comment . The sense and

    liberality of the writer display themselves !—only it is a pily that such apiece of sheer silliness should be hung about the memory of so good aman , as from your account , [ vol . iv . p . 240 ] Thomas Tripp appears to have been ; and I cannot but hope it will be in the power of some one of his friends to shew

    ltat A . C confounded Thomas Tripp with some Romish saint whom he had found in his multifarious reading . But I write in order to say that there is nothing new in a Wesleyan preacher floundering in baptism , The- " . Father * " of the Wesleyans

    John Wesley is denominated , in the Minutes of Conference and other work *

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    found this water too deep for him ; no wonder then the children are out of their depth in it . From a ^ pamphlet of Augustas Toplady ' s , entitled " A Word concerning the Bathing-Tub Baptism , " attached to ttie i 6 Historic

    Proof , " I find that Weslev was charged with having conducted the operation described in this title , but pretended ulter ignorance of the fact : hereupon Toplady gave the story to the public as . follows , premising that the " subject of that blest bathing bout was

    Mrs . Lydia Sheppard , now living in tlie Borough of Southwark . " •• Antecedently to the ceremony , Mr . Wesley told her that c to satisfy weak minds , he had occasionally baptised some persons , by immersion , at Bristol and elsewhere ; and would do the same

    for her to make her easy . The time and place were accordingly appointed . An house in Long Lane , Southwark , was to have been the scene of action , and the water and other requisite convcniencics were there actually got in readiness . But the matter having

    taken air and the curiosity of various people being excited , Mr . John did not cruise to accomplish the business in the presence of so many spectators , as were then and there expected to assemble . Thus the administration was

    adjourned , and another place fixed upon : at which place Mr- John PVesley did , with his own hands , baptize the said Mrs . Lydia Sheppard , by plunging her under water , and a fine plunging it had like to have proved .

    *• Does the reader ask , In what font this baptism was administered ? the font was a common bathing tub . —Is it further inquired , In what chapel did the font stand at the time ? The chapel was truly a chapel in Cryptis : to wity a

    common cellar *—Arn I asked , of what cathedral was this subterraneous chapel apart ? The cathedral or mother church , was neither better nor worse than a cheesemonger's house , in Spitalfields , London . —Who were the witnesses to this under-ground baptism ? A select

    of the icct , Father ; quasi > Papa , Pope * Sec Matth , xxiii . 9 . 4 o

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    A curidtte "Baptism by John Wesley . 593

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    vol . iv .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 593, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/17/