Infant Baptism: A Part and Pillar of Popery (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Infant Baptism: A Part and Pillar of PoperyAll the absurdities and abominations with which Romanism is characterized, are but developments of this central dogma; Ofishoots from this one poisonous root. But this also is the very core and substance of infant baptism. If its upholders do not regard it as the merest nullity - a rite as vapid and mean ingless as it is unscriptural - they must ascribe to it some mysterious efiicacy; some hidden and magical power; by which it influences the Spiri tual state of its recipients, and brings them under moral relations different from those of others. Ao cordingly, we find. That wherever it is left to unfold itself freely - wherever it is not shorn of its natural proportions and accompaniments by contact with the advocates Of primitive truth and order, - it al ways appears in connection with baptismal regener ation, infant church-membership, and sacramental holiness. And this is Popery.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.