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      notlfing fs to be admitted as of apostolical authority but what is to be found in the New Testament ? How do we know that the Gospels of Matthew arid John are of apostolic

      origin ? Not because we are so taught in the New Testament : for- not a word is written * not a blot is suggested upon the subject . We believe it upon the uniform ? universal ,

      uncontradacted testimony of . Christian antiquityo And we do well . Upon the very same evidence I assume the apostolical authority of Infant Baptism To BELSHAMo

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      Perpetuity of the Lord ' s Supper . Sir , London , Jario 10 , 1818 . HEN Dr . Priestley endeavoured Wto convince Dr . Price that the mind of man was not immaterial

      using this term iiu the sense he defined , the result was different to what either of the correspondents probably anticipated . For Dr * Price in the end declared that , although he was not convinced the mind of man is not

      immaterial , yet he was inclined to concede that matter is . So with our friemd Mr * Belsham , if lie fails to convince his headers of the apostolic authority for the continued

      use of baptism , he may shake their faith in the perpetual obligation of the Lord ' s Supper , as resting upon the recorded authority of the founder of the Christian religion ., But , Sir , I believe a little attention will convince

      us that the two rites rest upon a basis as different as that I pointed out in the letter you inserted in the

      Repository for November last [ XII . 657 ) . Your readers may incline to think it a hazardous attempt for a layman to oppose Mr . Belsham * s comment

      upon the writings of the Apostle Paul , writings to which he has so long and so successfully attended * But all I shall undertake ' , and indeed all I apprehend I need to undertake , is , to exhibit the testimony of the Apostle as recorded ' in the Epistle to the Corinthians ^ taking it from the text of the Improved Version .

      At the end of the sixth chapter of the first : epistle , the Apostle commences a long * series of remarks and directions upon the abuse , and for the better use of the ' observances of that Christian community ; which he contiuues to the close of the fourteenth

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      chapter . ^ He introduces his account of the institution of the Lord ' s Supper with very remarkable expressions ^ and ! concludes it with some not less so . * " For I have received from the Lord that which I delivered also unto

      you that the Lord Jesas , the night on which he was delivered up , took bread s and gave thanks ? and brake it ^ and said , This is my body , which is broken for you : do this in remembrance of me . ' In like manner he

      took the rap also , when he had supped , sayia g * ' This cup is the ' new covenant through my blood : do this * as often as ye shall drink it , in remembrance of me / For as often as ye eat this bread , and drink this cup , ye shew forth the Lord ' s death , till he _ „ 9 9

      come . Should it be objected that the 26 th verse is not to be considered a part of the direction received from Jesus Christ , I shall feel obliged to Mr » Belsham , or any other of your correspondents * for their reasons for the objection . At the conclusion of the

      14 th chapter , and near the end of the Apostle ' s remarks upon the observances of the Corinthian church , is the following remarkable declaration : " If any man seem to be a prophet , or spiritual , let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord . "

      Thus does the Apostle Paul bear his testimony direct and express to the perpetual observance of the Lord ' s Supper as a rite instituted by Jesus Christ , and declare that all his directions possess the authority of his Lord and Master : indeed it appears to me

      very difficult to record them more directly and more expressly ., Yet Mr- Belsham says , p . 731 of your last volume , " For though Christ instituted the Eucharist , lie gave bio pre ~ cept for its permanent obligation : and

      though St . Paul incidentally mentions that in the Lord ' s Supper * we shew forth his death until he come / such an oblique notice is by no means equivalent , to an express command . " I take the liberty of requesting him ,. if I am mistaken in my conclusions , to

      * I hardly need call to your readers * recollection that the Apostle had no Intercourse with his Master before his cify ^ iiljdon , therefore every other was $ u « peJr * iiuUtral .

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      Perpetuity of the Lord $ Snppeto Sftf

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1818, page 31, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2472/page/31/