Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-03-25

; What Ho0! how now hath How such learn =
ing found, ],
To throw Arts curious image TO the ground
Cambridge and Oxford may their glory now
Vel in Cobbler, if they know bat How $
This man died in l64l, and of him,
Roger Williams says, Amongst so ma
ny instances, dead and living. to the ever
lasting praise OF Christ Jesus, and OF his
Holy Spirit, breathing and blessing where
he listeth, | can not but with honorable
testimony remember that eminent Christ
ian witness and prophet of Christ, even
that despised AMI yet beloved Samuel
Hove, who being by calling coobler'
and without human learning, (which yet
in its sphere and place be honored,) who /
yet, | say, by searching the holy scrip
lures, grew so excellent textuarv or
Iscriplure-learned man, that few of those !
high rabbis, that scorn to make or mend
shoe, could aptly or readily from the ho-
y criptures outgo him. And, however,
(through the oppression upon some mems !
consciences even in liiit and death, and
after death, in respect of burying, as yet
unthought and remedied,) tsay, However,
he was forced to seek grave or bed in
the highway, yet was his life and death
and burial, (heing attended with many
hundreds of Gods people, honorable and
(how much more at bis rising again) glo-
rious.'
If then, while in England, Roger
Williams held friendly communings with
men of such spirit, who were publish
ing there, at the hazard of reputation and
property and life, the same principles
which have since attracted the statesman's
eye as he has seen them shining among
hhe statutes of this commonwealth. we
need be at no loss to conjecture whence
he drew them. He learned them from
men who derived them from the Bible
The fact is, that although in New-Eng-
land he seemed to stand alone, there were
many in Old England with whom he had
common sympathies, who cherished the
same sentiments, who, in some instances,
suffered for them The loss of all things,
chung to them under CALLING bondage, and
proclaimed them amidst the fires OF mar
tyrdom. ...
An alIusion has already been made to
the fact, that before Mr.. Williams left
Plymouth, an apprehension was express
ed by the ruling elder there, that he
: would run the same course of anabaptist-
nv that Mr.. Smvth, of Amsterdam, had
done This man was once minister oil
the Church of England, but having spent
nine months in Studying the controversy
t between the Church and the Puritlns, he
joined the later. and is spoken of as a
: leading man among them in 1892 In
1906, he settled at Amsterdam, over the
Puritan church there. and having begun
0 10 question the validity of infant baptism
: in the Church of England, he gave it up
}, altogether. Then, changing his views as
II to the nature aud design of baptism, he
; became the head of a secession from the
: Puritans, and formed Baptist church,
: 1t was reported by his enemies that hs
u had baptized himself, and hence they call
D. ed him a SeBaptist. That, however
St was an ill-grounded report. inasmuch al
), there is no proof of it, and 1t is contrar!
q to the principles contained in his writings
); which have already been stated. Agains
81 Mr.. Smyth and other separatlsts from thu
Al Established Church, the celebrated Blsh
d op Hall took up his pen, and speaks 0
D. him In manner which Indicates the EN-
J. inence he held among the ministers OF IN
'e day. Abiding 10 him in an address t
y Mr.. Robinson. of Leyden, he says, Wha
p has become OF your partner. yea, you
y guide? Wo is he, he has renounce
u Christendom with our church, and hat
7'' washed of his former waters with new
ne and now condemns you all for not sepal
nc ating further, no less than we cor
OF denim you for separating so far
He tells you true; your station
IS unsafe: either you must go forward
CHI him or back to u.s. All your rabbs ca
en- no, answer that charge of your re-bapti
'ut ed brother. If we be true church, vo
rs, must return; if we be not, as fax
to church is no church of God, you mu
ry re.baptize. If our baptism be good, The
ID is our constitution good
he About the year 1911, MIR. Smyth die
nd and was succeeded by Mr.. Heiwlsse,
do company with whom the church return
.el. 10 London, in 1914. When we oonsld
an the reasons for that event, it presents
he vine moral spectacle to which history h
oof not done justice Although the spirit
Of persecution was still raging IN Engair
, thew became impressed with the idea tn
lies to fly from it betrayed want of coura
ore and of true fidelity to Christ. belleVl'
ter. that they were converted to Coo IN ora
It to be lights in the world, holding forth
sss. word Of life, thew fe, bound, they sald'
nal let their light shine by their convefFatl'
suf. amongst the wicked, as the gfeai:'
row means Of converting them, and Destroy