Author: Charles H. Pendleton
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Published: 2015-07-07
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781330856420
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Excerpt from A Conversation Between Two Laymen on the Subject and Mode of Christian Baptism and Church Communion Dear Brother: I have examined with much interest and profit, your Manuel on Baptism and Communion, and am convinced in my own mind, that it is destined to do much good. Although there has been much written, and many volumes are now before the public on the subject, yet there is still, upon this most expressive and important ordinance, a vast amount of ignorance in the Christian church. It is therefore clearly the duty of the Baptists, in the exercise of Christian charity, to give their erring brethren "line upon line, and precept upon precept," and exhort them to "make straight paths for their feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way." Your references to classic usage, and quotations from the Fathers, and from modern Pedobaptists, triumphantly answer all objections, and completely settles the fact, that believers are the only subjects, and immersion the only mode of gospel baptism. Your reasoning upon the subject from the "usus loquend!" of the terms employed in the ordinance of baptism, is irrefragable. - Infant sprinkling is most unquestionably the very foundation and pillar of Popery, designed to be the great link to connect church and state, in order to form a national religion, and so to unite the kingdom of light with the kingdom of darkness, as to form a misty twilight, in the dimness of which, things doubtful and anti-scriptural should appear to be "confirmation strong as proofs of holy writ." I believe it must and will appear to every candid reader of your excellent Manuel, that infant subjects, and a sprinkling mode of gospel baptism, were alike unauthorized by Jesus Christ or his apostles, and unknown in the first centuries of the church, and are, by whom ever practised, the certain badges of their descent from the "Mistress of Babylon," the "Mother Church." Your views of communion, I think equally clear and conclusive. Whoever wishes to become fully acquainted with the objections commonly urged against the Baptists, upon the subjects of baptism and the communion, will see them fairly stated, and most clearly refuted, in this work. No Baptist can rise from a perusal of it, without feeling fully convinced in his own mind, that his sentiments, as a Baptist, are a part of that immutable truth, "which shall abide and live forever." It gives me very great pleasure, to recommend this work to the Christian public, hoping and praying that it may prove a "light to the feet, and a lamp to the path" of every humble and sincere inquirer after truth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
