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    298 Advice to Parents on Baptism .

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    good reason to rejoice in the restored health of the mother , and when all are willing to be reminded of their respective duties . It is no small part of the ministerial office to stir up the pure mind by way of remembrance . As this may be done most effectually by the novelty of this mode of conveying instruction , so the friendly address of an observer to his friends , may perhaps remark something useful , which might otherwise escape those who are more nearly concerned .

    The apostle Paul declared to the Corinthian Christians , that Christ sent him not to baptize but to preach the gospel . If Apollos usually performed that office , there maybe an allusion to his aid in the words , " I have planted ^ Apollos bath watered , but God hath given the increase / ' Howeter this may be , —whether adults or infants be the objects of baptism ^ —whether the face be sprinkled or the body immersed ;—whether there be baptism by water or baptism by

    the spirit , —whether water be used or water be declined ^—the . one thing needful is , that the gospel should be preached . In the opinion of various persons there may be different modes of fulfilling this duty . The gospel is as effectually preached by the application of its principles and motives , as by the declaration of its doctrines . If the grand opinion be taken for granted , that the influence of a wise and

    benevolent Providence extends through all worlds and ages , and tjiat this is the leading sentiment of divine revelation , as manifested in the Mosaic dispensation and in the religion of Jesus Christ , which hath brought life and immoi > tality to light , ( whilst enough probably is received to con ^

    stitute a believer , ) nothing more is necessary , on what is called a baptismal occasion , than to apply this important principle to the business of education , or to display those scriptural passages which may encourage and direct thje parental mind in the performance of its duty to the rising

    generation . There cannot be a stronger inducement to persevere in endeavouring to discipline the character in sound princi * - pies or in virtuous habits , than the advice and observation

    of Solomon , — Train up a child in the way in which he should go , and when he is old he will not depart from it , " Whe- ^ ther the same writer did not carry the system of severity and terror too far ., may be deserving of calm and serious consideration ; but whatever chastisement or correction may sometimes be necessary or expedient , certainly the apostle

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page 298, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/10/