...enjoined or recommended. Luther is referred to, as declaring that the scriptures afford no proof that it was instituted by Christ; or begun by the first Christians after the uposties. Curcelloeus, another Paedobaptist, asserts, that in the first two centuries after Christ...

...authority on the subject. CHAPTER I. The PERSONS to be baptized are not INFANTS, but BELIEVERS only. " It cannot be proved by the sacred Scriptures, that infant baptism was instituted by Christ' ' — Luther. First: Consider the nature and design of baptism. 1. Baptism is a profession of discipleship...

...express mention of any children being baptized. Dr. Wall. It cannot be proved, by the sacred scripture, that infant baptism was instituted by Christ, or begun by the first Christians after the apostles. Luther. In AR'g Vanity of Infant Baptism. If there can be no example given in Scripture of any one...

...and Antipaedobaptism, part ii. p. 84. 5. Luther. — " It cannot he proved by the sacred scripture that infant baptism was instituted by Christ, or begun by the first Christians after the apostles." In AR's Vanity of Inf. Bap. part ii. p. 8. 6. Mr. Baxter. — " If there can be no example given in...

...for Paedobaptism, nor any just evidence of it for two hundred years after Christ." 6. Luther. — " It cannot be proved by the sacred scriptures that infant baptism was instituted by Christ or began by the first Christians after the apostles." 7. M. Formey. — " They baptized from this time,...

...Anstver to Priestley on the Lord's Supper, p. 7. LUTHEB. " It cannot be proved by the sacred Scripture, that infant baptism was instituted by Christ, or begun by the first Christiana AFTEU the apostles." (/« Pssd. Exam. Vol. II. p. 4.) See also GOOD-WIK, BOSTON, LiMBoncH,...

...express mention of any infant" Martin Luther declares : " It cannot be proved by 4 the sacred Scripture that infant baptism was instituted by Christ, or begun by the first Christians after the Apostles." Richard Baxter remarks : " If there can be no example given in Scripture, of any one that was baptized...

...dipping.' — p. 291 " Luther says, ' It cannot be proved by the sacred Scriptures, that Infant-baptism was instituted by Christ, or begun by the first Christians after the Apostles.' — ' The term baptism is a Greek word. It may be rendered a. dipping, when we dip something in water...

...infant baptism is not to be found in the Bible." — Bretschneider's Theology, vol. 2, p. 758. " ft cannot be proved by the sacred Scriptures, that infant...begun by the first Christians after the Apostles." — M. Luther in Booth Pedo. exam. Vol. 2, p. 4. '• Baptism obligates a man to a Christian life ;...

...mention of any infants." This admission, from one so anxious to defend the piactice, is of much weight. Martin Luther says, " It cannot be proved by the sacred...begun by the first Christians after the apostles." The learned De La Roque, of Roan, in Normandy, says, " The primitive church did not baptize infants,...