n of Barton, July 3, 1803. , at Wreningham, Norfolk, Mr. rfitt, aged 76; for nearly fifty mber of the baptist church, Pitt wich. 'Let me die the death of the and let my last end be like his." at Oakham, aged 59, Julia Elizaof Mr. Peter Haddon. She had nsistent member of the baptist ove twenty-two years. 3, the Rev. Dr. Innes of Edinptist minister. The Edinburgh ys:-"On Saturday morning, this citizen, and eminent man of God, ay from among us. Four weeks visiting a sick-bed, he met with t, from the effects of which he vered. Dr. Innes died in the year of his age, and sixty-second istry. He was first licensed to e gospel in connexion with the d Church of Scotland, and was ministers of Stirling till 1799, conscience' sake he resigned his ving embraced the principles of mcy; and partly, perhaps, he was the step by a desire for a greater preaching the gospel, in which , than was to be obtained under atism which at that time ruled a with a rod of iron. The name es will ever be associated with cable revival of living godliness t the land, which took place at of the last and beginning of the ntury. He was the early friend iate of Robert Haldane, along , and Dr. Bogue, of Gosport, he lead the "forlorn hope" of a Bengal, in 1796. On that plan trated by the refusal of consent t of the East India Company, Mr. mpanied Mr. Haldane on many ssionary tours among the towns e parishes in Scotland. In 1799, ing Stirling, he became pastor of tion in Dundee; and about ten he was removed to Edinburgh. t mental power, or theological , or pulpit distinction, which venerable minister a burning work, in connexion especially with meetings and operations of the va religious societies. Whether it was to the chair, to take the most subordinate in the proceedings, or merely to be pre in case some other should fail, one c always count on the disinterested and r help of that loving old man. He w warm and earnest friend of the City Miss Sabbath schools, Tract societies, and other means of usefulness. His death calm and peaceful. To him, to live Christ, and, as was to be looked for, he that to die was gain. In "old Dr. In there has passed away the last landmar that memorable period to which we h already referred. The remains of Dr. In are to be laid in the West Church buryi ground." March 4, aged 71, Mr. Henry Altha of Tower Hill, London; well known by educational exertions in connection w the Sunday School Union, and the Brit and Foreign School Society. March 13, after a short but severe illne Mr. Abraham Lord, for many years a me ber of the baptist church, Branch Ro Blackburn. March 18, "fell asleep in Jesus," M Elizabeth Hind, of Crowle, near Epwor aged 82. Our departed friend was a since christian, and a baptist of the old scho Descended from ancestors who, in "e times," adhered steadfastly to the faith, li them she never wavered. All who ha visited those parts will remember wi emotion the kind hospitality which she ar her now bereaved partner always displaye Only last autumn, in company of the Re J. Buckley, we visited Crowle for missiona objects, and could not but admire the energ and devotion which she displayed. Pead to her memory! May her numerous chi dren and grandchildren not only rise u and call her blessed, but follow her as sh followed Christ, and now doubtless throug faith and patience inherits the promises. Mr. W. Mayo, of Manchester, whose deat on Jan. 20, we noticed in our last, page 96 had been, for ten years, a deacon of th baptist church, Grosvenor-street, in that city 1 Laid Envelopes 6d., 8d., 10d., and 1s. per 100. ED SERMON AND MANUSCRIPT PAPER. z 2. Medium Octavo, ruled, middle or narrow feint. 3. Large Post, Octavo, ruled narrow feint 4. 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MORETON, Printer, Langport, Somerset, and all Booksellers. [314] Now Ready, Price 28., ORY OF MISSIONS; or a Scriptural Inquiry into the doctrine of the TING TORMENT OF THE BARBAROUS NATIONS AND COUNTLESS IGNORANT ancient and modern times. By the Rev. EDWARD WHITE, Minister of Hawley Road, Kentish Town, Author of Four Discourses on "Life in London: Benjamin L. GREEN, 62, Paternoster Row. siring to sojourn in Paris, comfortably, agreeably, en famille, and learn the anguage, can be received in a Parisian Baptist family inhabiting a whole y house at fifteen or twenty minutes walk from the fairest promenades A MINIATURE HISTORY OF THE BA Ir may be pleasing to some of my Here it may be observed that the the apostles, and t be so traced, it affo bability that they then. It ought to be that my object is tory of a name but shall not contend Baptists, Anabapt or the like, but w peculiar sentiment by those who ar Wherever we find we find the men, t had they lived in styled baptists. inquiry this, Wher of baptism which who are known by For this mode is if not universally, honest men, to be the Baptist and t mode is, indeed, baptists, for the pæ centuries, practice the majority of the practice immersion The peculiar cl baptists is this: I ordinance of bapti stered to adults, o only. It is not difficult to fix the period when one sect of this denomination was first called Petrobrusians, when another was known by the name of Waterlandians, when a third was denominated Mennonites, &c. But the difficulty is this, to ascertain the time, place, and medium, by which Christ's disciples were led to adopt the peculiar sentiment, which is now held by those called baptists, and which distinguishes them from all other denominations. It may be farther observed that if no one, however learned and wise, be able to trace this sect to any beginning short of the days of the apostles, or of Christ, it is possible that it then arose. Besides, if all other religious denominations, or the pædobaptists, who include all which are not baptists, can be traced to a probable origin short of S One natural c principle is, when baptized, or sprin them by that name. Their v follows. origin of the baptists can be here, unless it be conceded at Jordan, or Enon. heim, in his history of the ys, "The true origin of hich acquired the denomihe anabaptists, by their adanew the rite of baptism o come over to their comd derived that of Mennonthe famous man to whom the greatest part of their icity, is hid in the remote antiquity, and is of conseremely difficult to be ascer . Mosheim, as learned an hough not so candid a one, ence of letters can boast, ve testimony that the origin ists is hidden in the remote ntiquity. Nothing is more n this, the doctor either heir origin, or was not canto confess it. At least is conclusion, that he could origin no where short of 5. rge number of the baptists red, oppressed, and perseugh many, if not through ions of Europe before the e reformation under Luther . When Luther, seconded princes of the petty states y, arose in opposition to rown usurpations of the Rome, the baptists also their hiding-places. They what they had been long from her cruel oppressions, made th wish to carry the reformation fart than God had appointed Luther accomplish. They were soon disa pointed in Luther, and probably not duly appreciate the reformati which he was instrumental in effecti It was as might have been expecte the Lutherans and the baptists fell o by the way, and Calvin, if not Luthe warmly opposed them. See Moshei Cent. XVI. Cap. iii. Sect 3, Part Mosheim, vol. iv. page 427, spea ing of the baptists, says, "This se started up all of a sudden, in sever countries, at the same point of tim and at the very period when the fir contests of the reformers with th Roman pontiffs drew the attention the world." From this we have on plain and fair deduction, that th baptists were before the reformation under Luther and Calvin, and there fore did not take their rise from th enthusiasts under Munzer and Storck or at that time, or at Munster. III. The Hussites in the fifteenth century, the Wickliffites in the fourteenth, and the Petrobrusians in the twelfth, and the Waldenses, were all baptists.* To this fact Dr. Mosheim bears the following testimony: "It may be observed that the Mennonites (i. e. the baptists of East and West Friesland, Holland, Gelderland, Brabant, Westphalia, and other places in the north of Europe) are not entirely mistaken when they boast their descent from the Waldenses, Petrobrusians, and other ancient sects who are usually *Not all, every one, but all generally. |