Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-08-16
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may differ 10 some points, yet there are
oilers in which we should not. And
what | have seen and heard recently,
ENDS TO strengthen my belief, more than
any thing | have read in the Telegraph,
or any where else, of the evil tendency
Srcts rianism has on the happiness and
FelI-being Of The great family Of man.
And here | would say, in this commu-
bcalion | have no EVIL intention. Do not
wish TO injure any ones character, or USE
Illness, or feelings, unless truth does il;
SO | cannot help it. Truth is my ain
and ooject; and what may say is with
difference to age. experience and educa-
ion; but | can no longer withhold bear.
jig my testimony against sectarianism.
Ny object is to know what is truth. AS
here are so many" 10 here's and 10 there's"
How-e-1ays, il becomes US as rational, in
eIligent Beings to know what is truth !;
br it is that and that only that will make
f'ee-make US happy and useful. It
will never suffer, but shines brighter by
nvestigation. The mind has too long
been chained down, or Gagged Up, -bv a
certain SCI chronological creecs,or dogmos,
which must be taken as a rule of faith
nd practice, or we be denounced as here
les or in6IeIs. BMthe time is coming.
yea has already come when men are be-
Ginning TO throw off the fetter OF scct-to
pink and speak and act for themselves.
! have much to write, as I have heard
number of discourses on the divine in,
pralion Of the writings Of Moses. and di,
zoe appointment Of human governments,
&C. But lest / should be lengthy, will
ume directly TO the point am after, and
Ou may hear more hereafter, la con-
rTsatiop with a Baptist Minister on the
sdnition of the word, heresy, we differed
He said that the Bibe-meanng was, the
tOying Of the Lord that bought them.
Consequently a hereto could not be
hristian. A few sabbalhs alter. IN dis
Ourse, speaking OF sec,arianism. he said
hat seciarianism and heresy were synon-
gnoua terms = meant one and the same
hing, (caled in a plumber OF authors for
proof, and that God had true church on
hrh which could not be called sect and
that did not belong to this church were
properly denomiuated sect. The inquiry
Immediately arose Ia my mind What
Constitutes true church, And | re-
ues,ed him 10 tell in discourse, ia the
tIernoon, what constitutes true Church,
ace which he has preached 8 or A dis
Ourses on the subject, Of which | will
give an outline. Text Acts tx: 81. AZ
er preliminary remarks, as TO the defni-
On or true import Of the word, be went
|n TO show of what material it was com
posed. Admitted in the outset that the
hurch that Christ spoke Of, wnen he
mid -"Oa this rock will l build my
durch," &'.-was composed OF true be-
levers in all ages, amongst all depomin-
zion, even amongst the Roman Catholics.
EM this was to be taken in its broadest
suse. (Of course not an organized body,
Yet il must be a Christian church fJr
Christ calls il my church.) But there
vas limited sense, according to the BIZ
e, in which il was 10 be taken that the
zoe church was composed of certain
CIV believers who had obeyed certain pre-
equis,es-baptism. (ehieh iOas immcr-
Con } the iniialory ordinance or oath Of
Vigilance, or naturalizing law, by virtue
which they become members otthe true
usoble church Of Christ. Ard in proof
'lhs being an organized body, was the
appointment Of its officers. the right or or
aiming receiving .disci7 lining,and exclud-
ug members, SC. Mat. xviii: Is; Thes
~ 6; Tin. vi: s.; L Cor. v: III. 13.
Add that every church thus built up was
. Iittle republic Ofi,seIf, and the only prop
er tribunal, to Try and punish its offenders
AT the close. we found that according L
he understanding Of the speakers view
ofIhe Bible. the Baptist Church wa, lh,
only true church on earth, or the way tina
the apostles practiced. which has held m,
10 a serious examination on the subject
That the Baptist church has the only tru,
node Of church building. or the mode tha
Christ and his aposiles marked out. an