Letters Addressed To Mr John Glas In Answer To His Dissertation On Infant Baptism Classic Reprint

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Download or read book The Letters of David and John written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Letters of David and John: Containing Animadversions Upon the Lectures of Dr. Woods on Infant Baptism My Dear Brother - According to our engagement, I send you some of my thoughts on the Lectures of Dr. Woods on Infant Baptism, hoping to be favoured in a short time with your's in return. The Question. Our Paedobaptist brethren are not agreed among themselves on the subject of Infant Baptism; some of them administering it to all infants, indiscriminately, and others restricting its use to the children of a believer. On this, as well as on other accounts, it might have been well, if the lectures had commenced with a formal enunciation of the question to be discussed. The question between Dr. Woods and us, on the doctrine of Infant Baptism appears to be this; Are the infant children of a believer proper subjects of baptism? In this doctrinal question, there appear to be involved the following questions of duty: Is it the duty of every believing parent, to solicit baptism for his infant children from a christian minister, and in order to obtain it for them, to engage that he will bring them up in the nurture and, admonition of the Lord? Is, it the duty of the minister, who may be applied to, if he is satisfied respecting the sincerity and piety of the parent, to administer the ordinance? The questions stated in the preceding paragraph, do not cover the whole ground of dispute. We differ about believers' baptism, as well as about infant baptism. To the question, Are believers proper subjects of baptism? our Paedobaptist brethren answer affirmatively, as well as ourselves; and there appears, at first view, to be an entire agreement between us on this subject. But it will be seen we diner greatly if the following questions of duty be proposed. 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."