Paedobaptism Examined (Volume 1); With Replies to the Arguments and Objections of Dr. Williams and Mr. Peter Edwards - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1150227907 ISBN 13: 9781150227905

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1829. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... (whether used by Pagan classics, or the Septuagint translators) be excluded from precepts and examples of the institution before us ; while /3a;ro{>, /3«7rncyiux, and fiomTiafMs, are appropriated to that service, if pouring or sprinkling had been at all intended by our Lord, or ever practised by his apostles ? See No. 49.--It must not be supposed, as Jos. Placaeus has justly observed in another case, that this' was done by inspired writers without design: * and on our principles the reason is plain. The great Legislator intended that his followers should be Immersed, " in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit:" in pursuance therefore of this design, such words are used concerning the ordinance, as naturally and properly convey that idea.-- We have, I think, as much reason to conclude that /3a?rT/£*> and pavri& are terms of opposite significations, as that PamricTTvipiov and irepippavTYjptov denote things intended for opposite uses. The former of these name6, it is well known, was applied by ancient Christians to the baptismal font; because candidates for communion were immersed in it: the latter, it is equally clear, was appropriated by Pagan Greeks to the vessel which contained their holy water; because thence the idolatrous priest sprinkled the consecrated element upon each worshipper. t What then would the learned say, were any one pretending to an acquaintance with Christian and Greek antiquities, designedly to confound the two latter expressions, as if they were convertible terms ? Be the just censure what it might, I cannot help thinking it is due to those who confound the two former, by labouring to pcove them equivalent, in regard to the ordinance hefore Ufi. Though our brethren maintain the lawfulness of pqurifig...

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• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1150227907
• ISBN 13: 9781150227905
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