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    little encouragement has been given ; and the patient editor , beset by many and serious difficulties , has been doomed to labour in silence and amidst much unmerited neglect . Its coming out so skuvly as to render it doubtful to some whether it will ever be finished , has ,

    indeed , been urged as an apology for the culpable neglect which this great work lias experienced . It must be conceded that there is much force in this objection : but it comes with an ill grace from those who have withheld alL aid and afforded no stimulant . A BEREAN .

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    Justin Martyr . To the Editor . Sir > In a tract lately published by a Baptist minister at Derby in . defence of Adult Baptism , occurs the following quotation from Justin Martyr ' s Apology : " I shall now lay before you the manner of dedicating ourselves to God , through Christ , upon our conversiou ; for should 1 omit this , I might seem not to deal sincerely

    in this account of the Christian religion . As mauy , therefore , as are persuaded , and believe , that the things taught and said by us are true , and moreover take upou them to live accordingly , are taught to pray and ask of God , with fasting , the forgiveness of their former sins ; we praying together , and fasting for and with them : and then , and not till then ,

    they are brought to a place-of water , and there regenerated after the same manner with ourselves ; for they are washed in the name of God , the Father and Lord of all , and of our Saviour Jesus Christ ; for Christ has said , * Unless you are born again , you cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven . ' The reason of this we have from the Apostles , for having

    nothing to do in our first birth , but being begotten by necessity , or without our own consent , and trained up also in vicious customs and company , to the end , therefore , we might continue no longer the children of necessity and ignorance , but of freedom and knowledge , and obtain remission of our past sins by virtue of this water , the penitent who now makes his second birth an act of his own

    choice , has called over him the name of God , the Father and Lord of all things . When we conduct the person to be baptized to the place of baptism , we call God by no other name , because we have not any appellation for the ineffable majesty of God that can explain his nature ; and if any man pretends to that , we

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    think him mad in the highest degree . This baptism is called illumination , be * cause the minds of the catechumens who are thus washed are illuminated ; and moreover the person baptized and illuminated is baptized in the name of Jesus Christ , who was crucified under Pontius Pilate , and in the name of the Holy Ghost , who spake by the prophets , and foretold every thing concerning Christ . "

    Ought not this to have been translated «< the Holy Spirit which spake" ? The word irvevfta , Spirit , being neuter , I have little doubt that the relative in the Greek is neuter also , which is the case ; in the New Testament . Whenever the relative refers to the word Spirit , it is neuter in the original * though our translators generally , very unfairly , render it who .

    Perhaps some of your readers , who have access to better libraries than I have , can give information as to the correctness of the abovo translation , to yours truly , T . C . HOLLAND ,

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    Sense or Sound . The following is a lately published letter by Dr . Franklin : " Passy , March ISth , 1785 . "My Dear Friend , € t Mr . Williams will have the honour of delivering you this Hue . It is to request from you a list of a few good books , to the value of about twenty-five

    pounds , such as are most proper to inculcate principles of sound religion and just government . A new town in the state of Massachusetts having done me the honour of naming itself after me , and proposing to build a steeple to their meeting-house , if I would give them a bell ; I have advised the sparing of themselves the expense of a steeple at pre- » sent , and that they would accept of books instead of a bell , sense being

    preferable to sound . These are , therefore , intended as the commencement of a little , parochial library for the use of a society of intelligent respectable farmers , such as our country people generally consist of . Besides your own works , I would only mention , on the recommendation of my sister , Stennet ' s Discourse ' s on Personal Religion , ' which may be one book of the number , if you know it and approve of it ,

    * ' With the highest esteem and respect , I am ever , my dear friend , yours most affectionately , " " B . FRANKLIN . "

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    Occasionki Correspondence . 271

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1828, page 271, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2559/page/55/