Paedobaptism Examined; With Replies to the Arguments and Objection of Dr. Williams and Mr. Peter Edwards - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1829. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. The Practice of John the Baptist, of the Apostles, and of the Church in succeeding Ages, in regard to the Marnier of administering the Ordinance of Baptism. N. B. Candour demands we should here acknowledge, that though these numerous and learned authors have expressed themselves in the following manner; yet many of them insist upon it as highly probable, that the apostles did sometimes administer baptism by pouring or sprinkling.] Witsius.'--" It is certain that both John the Baptist, and the disciples of Christ, ordinarily practised immersion; whose example was followed by the ancient church, as Vossius hath shown, by producing many testimonies from the Greek and Latin writers. Disp. I. de Baptismo, thes. vi., and also Hoornbeek, de Baptismo Veterum, sect, iv." CEcon. Feed. 1. iv. c. xvi. § 13. 2. L'Enfant.--" " In the water--in the Holy Ghost.' These words do very well express the ceremony of baptism, which was at first performed by plunging the whole body in water, as also the copious effusion of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost." Note on Matt. iii. 11. Eng. translat. 3. Anonymous.--" If we have regard to the manner in which the idea of baptism is naturally adapted to the situation of a guilty creature, zealous to express his abhorrence of sin; or to the general practice of the Jewish, as well as other eastern nations; to the example of our Lord, and of his disciples; and to the most plain and obvious construction of the Greek language; we shall be inclined to believe that infant sprinkling is not an institution of Christianity, but a deviation from the original rite, which was performed by dipping, or plunging into water. .. .The arguments by which 'the Paedobaptists support their practice and doctrine, appear to us to be so forced and...