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where any were bap-
tized, but such as appeared
to have a saving faith in Christ.
Works p. 384.
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Limborch. There is no
instance can be produced
from, which it can be
indisputably inferred
that any child was bap-
tized by the Apostles".
Complete Sys. Div. B.V.
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Mr. Baxter expressed
munch the same.
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Dr. Wood, of Andover,
Ms. acknowledges, that
there is no precept, nor
example in our sacred
writings for the bap-
tism of infants, but
that it must be made
out some other way.
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Accordingly he proceeded.
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What is the other way
which our peodo-bap-

RECTO

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tist friends have for
f or making out infant
baptism, when they fail
from the New-Testa-
ment accounts of bap-
tisms?
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Baptism came in the
room of circumcission.
That it occupies the same
place in the gospel
Church, that circum-
cission did in the Jew-
ish Church.
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To this we reply, I cannot assent ―
1.^th That this assertion is
unsupported by the
New-Testament.

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2.^nd There are circumstances
recorded in the New-
Testament, that, if the
declar^ation was correct,
the Apostles could not
help to have mentioned.
See Acts 15:1,2,23-29.