The Scripture Guide to Baptism Containing a Faithful Citation of All the New Testament Passages Which Relate to This Ordinance Classic Reprint

Richard Pengilly

ISBN 10: 1331172470 / ISBN 13: 9781331172475

Edité par Forgotten Books, 2018

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• Titre: The Scripture Guide to Baptism Containing a Faithful Citation of All the New Testament Passages Which Relate to This Ordinance Classic Reprint
• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1331172470
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781331172475
• Reliure: PAP
• État de l'article: New
• Poids: 281 grammes

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Excerpt from The Scripture Guide to Baptism



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In presenting a new edition of this pamphlet to the Christian public, the writer has no small degree of satisfaction in having the opportunity of copying into its pages additional testimonies from very eminent Christian authors, conceding the scriptural authority of the views of Baptism herein advocated. But few writers of the present age are more highly estimated, or more generally respected, than the Professor of Theology in the University of Edinburgh, Dr. Chalmers. On the mode of Baptism, this eminent writer has, in a recent publication, frankly stated what the word Baptism, in the law of Christ, signifies, and what was, without doubt, the apostolical practice. The reader will find extracts upon these points at pages 71 and 47. Nor is it less pleasing to introduce the candid account which Professor Jewett, of Marietta College, Ohio, has lately given of his deep aDd thorough investigation of this subject, to which he was called in the providence of God, and which ultimately led him not merely to grant concessions to the truth, but to adopt different views and a different practice to those of his former life. It is not intended by these remarks that the reader should attach any decisive importance to tbe opinions of uninspired men. The word of God alone should decide whatever pertains to religious duty. At the same time, the result of such a deep and thorough investigation of the subject, (as in the case last referred to,) by a man of high theological attainments and station, with a mind capable of grasping the subject in all its bearings upon the Christian system, and of erudition to enable him to ascertain the precise sense of the original terms employed in the law of Christ, as well as the practice of the church in the first and purest period of her history, such a result, presented to the public in a truly Christian spirit, deserves and demands the mos
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