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sprinkling , or to give a high antiquity to the practice . * P . 433 . Four of the most distinguished , in the course of their elaborate disquisitions , have written to prove the contrary , and for vouchers they appeal to " ancient
monuments and inscriptions . It is sufficient to mention the names of Paciaudi , Dr . Joseph de Vicecomes , of Milan , Father Mabillon and Muratori . The Opinions of Four Learned Catholics on Baptismal Aspersion , p . 433 ,
Of the Asian Jacobites , who seceded from the Greek Church in the fifth century , he remarks , " that they inhabit Syria and Mesopotamia , and in the last century , were said to consist of 40 or 50 , 000 families . Their baptism is that of nominal catechumens
by trine immersion , and the duration of adults by immersion may be gathered from a canon of the patriarch Michael , * which says , there was no farther need of deaconnesses , because mow the church baptizes children of a tender aye , and not women as formerly . " Of another large class (
African Jacobites ) he says , " AH these Christians administer baptism to children by trine immersion , and immediately after they give them the Lord ' s Supper . For their offices of baptism were evidently composed for adults , as all the other Eastern rituals were , "
pp . 489 , 490 . Of the Armenians , another large Eastern hierarchy , he observes , " They baptize children by trine immersion , but their rituals are composed for adults , and one of their church officers is denominated an
exorcist , the same as a catechist , who is directed at his ordination to prepare catechumens for baptism , by teaching them to renounce Satan , that is , Demonology . " Of the Georgians , Mingrelians and others , who inhabit India , Tartary ,
Muscovia , Persia , Turkey and Armenia , he observes , ** They do not baptize new -born babes , and they call baptism , Nathlizema , Illumination . In general they are not very eager to baptize , and Avitabolis mentions one who was not baptized till after he had been ordained a bishop . They
? Olim viri et mulieres baptizabantisr , » M « c vero Filii Nestorianorum baptizantur . Timoth . II . Patriarchs de Baptismo , Cap . Jih as quoted by Ilobinson , p . 486 .
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rebaptize such as are reconverted to the faith , and sometimes baptize children of two , some say of five years of age , by washing , " p * 494 . Of the disciples of St . John , who reside in Turkey , Persia , Arabia ,
India , and other park * of the East , he remarks , that they inhabit only towns watered by rivers , a ^ d in the June of every year , according to some travellers , they hold a festival of baptism , and are all annually rebaptized in a river . Mr . Robinson supposes , rather , that
they administer baptism once a-year , and that then they baptize only such as had not been baptized before , p . 495 . In p . 4 Q 6 , he considers again the case of the Manichaeans , and he quotes at large what he had only alluded to before , the testimony of Mosheim , ( De Rebus Christianorum ante Constants .
Mag . ) who had so well studied the subject of the Manichaeans and baptism , in proof that the ancient Manichaeans opposed Infant Baptism ; and , in real truth , many of the sects , described above , were but , as Mr . Robinson maintains , different branches and descendants of the old Manichseans .
He observes , also , further , of the Nestorians , " that they uniformly deny Original Sin ; they have an office for unbaptized children , with provisioii for such as are full grown \ they are constantly censured for delay iiig to baptize their children till they are
three , four , six , eight , ten , or eighteen years of age , and they have continued the office of deacouness till this day , " p . 487 . According to this account of Mr . R . then , it does not appear that the sprinkling of new-born babes was ever practised by the Nestorians . He says , " As it is well known that the
Oriental rituals , coming into the West through the hands of Roman Catholic missionaries , have been unconscionably garbled , so it may be very well doubted , whether the baptism of natural infants he practised by any Nestorians , except a few whom the mis sionaries have Latinized /* *
* J . Aymon Monumens Authenticities de la Religion des Grecs ; et de la faussete' de plusieurs Confessions de Jf ? oi dej Chretiens Orientaucc produites par les Prdlats de France . u Nous employerons tout cela dans cet outrage , pour y demontrer juridiquement la fausset 6 die plus de cinq cens attestations , ' &c . Renaudot * Liturg . Orientally
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440 On ^ Mr . Bdshams Ce nsure ofRobinsom
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1818, page 440, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2478/page/32/
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