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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3 - PREFACE. The author of the following tract was brought up a Pedo- baptist, but in consequence of reading the arguments .on the Baptists' side he hesitated. He searched anew the New Testament as impartially as he could, and with a fear lest his early prejudice for infant Baptism might mislead him. Still, however, he hesitated, for there he could not see a clear foundation for either side. There he could not see a command for, or an example of, infant baptism so plain as to satisfy him; nor could he find satisfactory evidence for or against immersion, but still he thought that all light on God's Baptism should be expected from searching, not heathen authors, but God's own word. Providence having led him to notice Paul's phrases, " doctrines of Baptism," in Heb. vi., and " divers Baptisms," as the words should be rendered in Heb. ix., he was and is persuaded that he found a clew to guide him into the truth. Paul sent him to Moses. To Moses he went, and among his Baptisms he found one, which, as he believes, the Prophets foretell shall continue till the end of time. Building the instructions of the New Testament upon this foundation, he is satisfied that sprinkling of infants with clean water is an ordinance of God. He has a great regard and a strong feeling of sympathy for his Baptist brethren; but for the direction of his mind to views of Baptism differing from theirs, he accounts himself bound to be thankful. His best wish for them, is, that laying aside as far as possible the prejudice on their side, they may attentively hear Moses and the Prophets on this subject as well as the New Testament. 12* 137 A GUIDE TO BAPTISM. It pleased God to appoint in his Church an ordinance in which the sprinkling of its members with water represents purification from sin by the blood of Christ. In the ...
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