A Series Of Letters On The Mode And Subjects Of Baptism Etc

Author : Stephen Chapin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333371661
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book A Series of Letters on the Mode and Subjects of Baptism, Addressed to the Christian Public written by Stephen Chapin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Series of Letters on the Mode and Subjects of Baptism, Addressed to the Christian Public: To Which Is Prefixed, a Brief Account of the Commencement and Progress of the Author's Trial on Those Points Which Terminated in His Embracing Believers' Baptism, in a Letter to a Friend Lied with much satisfaction on this antiquity and general prevalence of infant baptism, as proof, that it must be apostolic. But now, on more particular examination, I found that this mode of reasoning would prove too much It would prove the divine right of infant communion. For this was as an cient and as general, as infant baptism. Thefath em I found placed both on the same ground, and supported both by the same process of argument. Saint Austin tells us that the church held, that both ordinances were saving and necessary to eternal life; and on the ground of this supposed saving quality, he informs, that the church viewed them both, as traditions from the apostles. In the same way of arguing I could prove the divine origin of the use of the cross in baptism worshipping with the face towards the east, and that baptism was re generation, Ste. 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.