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with the Same divine lessons as soon as they are able to learn them ? " To this I answer , if religion be Founded in knowledge , and is of a personal nature , then can there be no single act so denominated where these are wanting * which goes for ever to exclude the right of infants to baptism , and furnishes , in my
opinion , an unanswerable argument m favour of believing adults being the only proper subjects of this ordinance * The metition of <« a book "— - " entering of natnes " - —arid € c engagements of parents , " I consider as altogether irrelevant to the
matter in dispute , especially as nothing like this is sanctioned by Scripture * With re&pect to what is improperly /* but for distinction sake , called the mode of baptism , J . T . views it to consist in washing . This idea * which is not original , he rests on two solitary texts : for the first , Titus iii . 5 , — -I solicit proqf
that by the washing of regeneration water-baptism is intended , and inquire what relation this washing has to the purging mentioned , 2 Peter i . 9 . For the sake of illustration , let us see
how far certain passages will apply with any propriety to waslring : — I indeed wash you with water ; but he shall wash you with the Holy Ghost and with fire , Matt , iii , 11 . ** Know ye hot that so many of us as were washed into Jesus Christ were washed into his death ? Therefore we are buried with him by washing into death / ' Rom . vi . 3 , 4 . Col . ii . 12 . " And were all washed unto Moses in the cloud and ifi the sea , " 1 Cor . x . 2 . Compare Heb - xi . 29 . cc For as many of you as have been washed into Christ have put on Christ / ' Gal . iii ; 27 . In opposition to such a reading , substitute the term " immerse / ' and all is proper . " As to Christian baptism having any allusion to the Jewish ablutions , I would refer J . T . to
Knott ' s Letters on Baptism , lately published , where , at page 14 , he may see a paragraph well worth his attention , relative to the force of arguments derived from this quarter . Consider * ing baptism as immersion , it remains to speak of its intention , and this , like itself , is but one . With J . T . it is an external symbol of being purged from tone ' s old sins ; but this proves direct against infant baptism ; for what old sins can young babes be purged from , and how can they forget what they cannot remember , as having no existence with respect to them ?
Your correspondent ^ I think , is too rational to believe wh ^ t is called the doctrine of original sin ; and the sooner he discards the pleading for a practice built on the foundation of it , the better . * See Mirsom . * s Examination of Elliot , in which the most consistent and scri p * tural view of the subject is given .
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Iteplj / toJ . T . on Baptfsm , 331
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1806, page 531, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1729/page/27/
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