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Christian Baptist, Published Monthly; THE CHRISTIAN BAPTIST, PUBLISHED MONTHLY; EDITED BY ALEXANDER CAMPBELL. Style no man on earth your Father: for he alone is your Father who is in heaven; and all ye are brethren. Assume not the title of Rabbi; for ye have only One Teacher: neither assume the title of Leader; for ye have only One Leader--the Messiah. Matth. xxiii. 8-10. Campbell's Translation. Prove all things: hold fast that which is good. Paul the Apostle. What a glorious freedom of thought do the Apostles recom- mend! and how contemptible in their account is a blind and implicit faith! May all Christians use this liberty of judging for themselves in matters of religion, and allow it to one another, and to all mankind. Benson. VOLUME III BUFFALOE, BROOKE COUNTY, VA. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY A. CAMPBELL, AT THE BUFFALOE PRINTING-OFFICE. 1827. GOSPEL ADVOCATE COMPANY NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE 1955 THE CHRISTIAN BAPTIST. No. 1--Vol. III] BUFFALOE, Aug. 1, 1825. [Whole No. 25 PREFATORY REMARKS NOTWITHSTANDING the flood of opposition which was intended to have overwhelmed, this work, and aimed at its de- struction by an ambitious priesthood and their deluded admirers, it has acquired an extensive growth in its circulation, and a vigor which opposition alone could give it. A spirit of investigation and of unbiassed inquiry, which we had scarcely anticipated, appears to have aroused into activity the dormant energies of a priest- ridden community. We have every reason to hope that this spirit will not give sleep to its eyes, nor slumber to its eyelids, until many shall clearly see and comprehensively understand, the mighty difference existing between the Kingdom of the Clergy and that of the Saviour of the World. We have little to promise but perserverance in the arduous conflict, so long as the same necessities exist, and until we shall see the ancient order of things restored in some good degree. Our constant readers have, per- haps, been expecting a series of essays upon some topics in our prospectus, scarcely yet touched. We have only to request a due exercise of patience on their part, and to offer as an apology the great press of many matters more immediately bearing upon existing circumstances. We intend to leave nothing undone, and to accomplish all that has been promised, as we have opportunity; but prudence is necessary to direct. We have also the proffered assistance of some of the most able and distinguished Nico- demuses of the times, and shall thankfully receive and promptly attend to their communications upon general and important mat- ters. For there are a goodly number of those even amongst the priesthood that bid us God speed, although for the present distress they think it expedient to remain in the conclaves of the power- ful. We must sympathize with them a little; for as Paul said, "all men have not faith," so we see all men have not courage. While the press is pouring forth every day fresh oil into the lamp, which guides the devotion of the thoughtless, and makes them think that they see the sun in a smoky wick, not an editor in the East nor in the West of all the Luminaries and religious Heralds, has ventured to dispute one inch of the ground that we claim. And yet their snarling shows they would bite if they could. They seem to know that the less they say the better for them and their cause; and perhaps they are right. The editors of the Western Luminary did positively promise in December last to enter the field of investigation, and to oppose us manfully; but not a syllable has appeared on the subject in any of their numbers that we have seen. They have either quit publishing, or ceased to send us their paper, for we have not seen one for a month. Per- haps they are of the same spirit with our neighbor the Pittsburgh 4 THE CHRISTIAN BAPTIST Recorder, who, after he had agreed and promised to exchange papers with us, soon as we began to inquire what he was doing he forgot his agreement and ceased to send us his paper. These gentry seem to know, or at least to think, that their cause will not bear the light of open discussion, and that a silent course is the best policy. They have given sufficient evidence by their occa- sional notices, that if they could do any thing in the way of public discussion, they would soon be at it. We do not say these things to provoke them into a controversy, for we have no expectation that there is any excitability in them; but merely to show the manner of spirit they are of. We must confess that we cannot view, with other feelings than those due to a thief and a robber who covers himself with the curtains of night that he may execute his design, those who attempt to extend their empire over the human mind and conscience, by suppressing the truth or with- holding the light from the eyes of those who look up to them as their guides. This they do by prejudicing the minds of many against the truth. We hope the day is not far distant, in which it will be admitted, that true charity, benevolence, and philanthropy consist not in flattering the wicked, nor in speaking peace to every body, but in withstanding to the face, as Paul did Peter, all those errorists, whether acting the part of the deceiver or the deceived. * * * EDITOR. [Communicated for the Christian Baptist.] CHRISTIAN UNION--No. II. I AM aware of the prejudices which each Christian sect feels for their own name and creed, and of the great difficulty there will be in getting them to drop them, or to exchange them for the name of Christian and the word of God. I fear that there are many professing Christians among what are called Protestant sects, who, rather than make this exchange, would unite with the Roman Catholics in defence of human authority, in legislating for, and dictating to the consciences of men in religion. In this they would act consistently, if they really entertain the sentiment expressed by Dr. Miller, "that the adoption of a creed," (or con- fession of faith such as the Westminster,) "is not only lawful and expedient, but also indispensably necessary." They ought, how- ever, in that case to be consistent throughout, and to join them- selves to the church of Rome. For if any church or people have authority from God to form creeds and confessions in religion, (and without divine authority there is no right) the church of Rome had therefore; and, as the elder and mother church ought to have been obeyed; and consequently the Reformation, as it has been called, was a rebellion against superiors, a disobedience of the divine authority vested in that church, and ought as such to be renounced by returning to it. If indeed it be lawful for men to substitute their speculations and notions derived from nature and their views of scripture for scripture itself, and to impose THE CHRISTIAN BAPTIST 5 them upon men's consciences, it will be very difficult to shew up- on what principle the church of Rome can be condemned for hav- ing thus acted. It will not do to say that they went too far, for they had as good a right to judge how far they might go as those have who condemn them. Dr. Miller's whole defence of creeds is based upon the deism of natural religion of John Calvin. This deism is at the foundation of, and pervades every system of sec- tarian religion in christendom; it had its origin in Pagan philoso- phy, relative to innate ideas of God which was at an early period incorporated with the Christian religion. The following senti- ments are extracted from Calvin's Institutes, vol. I. chap. iii. "The human mind naturally endowed with the knowledge of God." "We lay it down as a position not to be controverted, that the human mind, even by rational instinct, possesses some sense of a Deity--for God hath given to all some apprehension of his exist- ence; some sense of divinity inscribed on every heart. All men have by nature an innate persuasion of the divine existence, a persuasion inseparable from their very constitution. The sense of a Deity is a doctrine not first to be learned in the schools, but every man from his birth is self-taught. Men need not go out of themselves for a clear discovery of God--the seeds of divinity are sown in the nature of man." In opposition to all this, the word of God says that "the world by wisdom knew not God," and to say the history of the world and the experience and con- sciousness of every individual. Locke exploded the doctrine of innate ideas. All the present systems, however, retain the conse- quences of that doctrine, which are seen in natural religion or deism, which is a religion without revelation, and in scholastic theology, and mystic divinity. These are taught in all theological schools, colleges, and universities in christendom. True philoso- phy and the Bible make revelation essential to religion. Men are born with innate capacities or susceptibility for acquiring the idea or knowledge of Deity; but revelation, supernatural revelation, is necessary for enlightening or improving that capacity, foregiving the idea or knowledge of God. The point must be sooner or later conceded, that Christ is the light of the world in religion and spiritual things, and that in his church he is himself the only sovereign and head; that he only hath power to decree articles of faith and the authority thereof, and that he alone has a right to ordain rites and ceremonies, and to fix the terms of communion and of church, membership; and consequently that no ecclesiastics or earthly princes have power to make laws in his kingdom which shall bind the consciences of his subjects, Math.
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