Apostolic Baptism: Facts and Evidences on the Subjects and Mode of Christian Baptism (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Apostolic Baptism: Facts and Evidences on the Subjects and Mode of Christian Baptism

From Mr. Taylor's prefatory notice to the Three Additional Letters, one paragraph is extracted.

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Excerpt from Apostolic Baptism: Facts and Evidences on the Subjects and Mode of Christian Baptism

The Author of these "Facts and Evidences on the Subjects and Mode of Christian Baptism" has concisely detailed the causes of his work in the preliminary paragraph to the ensuing chapter on the "Subjects of Baptism." But as that narrative only partially applies to the present edition of this very important volume, it is requisite to delineate the alterations which have now been made in the form of his original publication.

For Mr. Taylor's investigation of Christian Archæology, in reference to the ordinance of Baptism, the result of which appears in this volume, we are indebted to a discussion between himself and a Baptist Deacon, respecting the evangelical authority of the Baptist practice in prohibiting all persons from the Lord's Table, who have not been submersed in adult age. The Baptist Deacon was perplexed by Mr. Taylor's "Facts and Evidences." In conformity with his desire, Mr. Taylor presented him a "sketch of the argument," that, it might be confuted, if any of the Baptist brethren could accomplish that. work. But they preserved a profound silence upon the subject. Several attempts were made to introduce the topic into the English Baptist Magazine, thereby to give the Baptists the most eligible and advantageous opportunity to rebut Mr. Taylor's "Facts," and to disprove his "Evidences;" but the editor and his consociates, sternly rejected every endeavour to elicit a public examination of the Baptismal controversy in that peculiar aspect within their own ecclesiastical boundary.

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