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... infants by extrinsick force . The conduct of a multitude of wise , free , and virtuous men , forms a presumption in ... infant baptism appear less incongruous with the nat- ural rights of mankind , than it is with the wisdom and equity ...
... infants by extrinsick force . The conduct of a multitude of wise , free , and virtuous men , forms a presumption in ... infant baptism appear less incongruous with the nat- ural rights of mankind , than it is with the wisdom and equity ...
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Robert Robinson David Benedict. the magistrate , who chooses what religion the infant shall profess , and this is depriving him of a natural birth - right . The observation , that infants are disposed of in baptism , with- out their ...
Robert Robinson David Benedict. the magistrate , who chooses what religion the infant shall profess , and this is depriving him of a natural birth - right . The observation , that infants are disposed of in baptism , with- out their ...
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... infants could have no share . It was a person's washing himself , and not the dip- ping of one person by another . It is conceivable that , if such a practice had existed , the whole formulary would not have been settled and published ...
... infants could have no share . It was a person's washing himself , and not the dip- ping of one person by another . It is conceivable that , if such a practice had existed , the whole formulary would not have been settled and published ...
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... infant - baptism on the practice , which the Jews , he says , had of baptizing proselytes to their religion . The fact ... infants ; a law to wash the first convert of a family is not an authority to wash all the descendants of that ...
... infant - baptism on the practice , which the Jews , he says , had of baptizing proselytes to their religion . The fact ... infants ; a law to wash the first convert of a family is not an authority to wash all the descendants of that ...
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... infants , although they do believe original sin . They think Adam's sin charged on all his poster- ity was that , which John the Baptist called the sin of the world , and which he said Jesus took away , so that neither infants nor ...
... infants , although they do believe original sin . They think Adam's sin charged on all his poster- ity was that , which John the Baptist called the sin of the world , and which he said Jesus took away , so that neither infants nor ...
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Page 207 - But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
Page 495 - Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him : knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more ; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 37 - I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth. and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Page 189 - And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands; and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.
Page 39 - He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Page 487 - BAPTISM is a sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ,* not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the visible church,« but also to be unto him a sign and seal of the covenant of grace,' of his ingrafting into Christ," of regeneration,' of remission of sins,J and of his giving up unto God, through Jesus Christ to «walk in newness of life :' which sacrament is, by Christ's own appointment, to be continued in his church until the end of the world.
Page 37 - The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me ; unto him ye shall hearken...
Page 89 - I believe in the Holy Ghost ; The holy Catholick Church ; The Communion of Saints ; The Forgiveness of sins ; The Resurrection of the body, And the life everlasting. Amen.
Page 76 - In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ ; buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead...
Page 37 - Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.