Call number
Publication
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1858, reprinted, 1916. Hb, 204 p.; 16 cm.
Physical description
204 p.; 16 cm
Notes
Note: This copy was formerly in the Canonsburg United Presbyterian church library, as per the stamp on the front free endpaper.
PART I. ON THE MODE OF BAPTISM.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
History of Immersion—Its origin—Dipping of persons naked—Immersion and Baptism different rites—Existing traces of the distinction among the Armenians, Greeks, and Abyssinians.
PART II. ON THE SUBJECTS OF BAPTISM.
CHAPTER I.
History of Infant Baptism—The Greeks, Armenians, Nestorians, Syrians, Abyssinians, Waldenses—The Petrobrussians—The Pelagian controversy—Council of Carthage—Testimony of Origen, Tertullians, Irenaeus.
CHAPTER II.
Family Baptisms—Apostolic Rule of Baptism—Family of Cornelius, of Lydia, of the jailer—Model Missionary Report—Baptisms at Corinth—Family of Stephanas— and Oikia—Christ and the Sadduccees.
CHAPTER III.
Christ's instructions to His disciples—Infants brought to Christ—"Of such, the kingdom of heaven"—The command to baptize—Matheteuo—Peter's understanding of the commission—"The promise."
CHAPTER IV.
Sameness of the Jewish and Christian Churches—No new organization by the apostles—The first Christian Church unbaptized—The olive tree—Testimony of facts—An unjust imputation—Nature of Infant Membership—Import of Circumcision.
CHAPTER V.
A Direct Warrant Needless—Female Communion—Objections Answered—Baptism not Inappllicable to Infants—Infant Communion—Advantages of Infant Baptism.
PART I. ON THE MODE OF BAPTISM.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
History of Immersion—Its origin—Dipping of persons naked—Immersion and Baptism different rites—Existing traces of the distinction among the Armenians, Greeks, and Abyssinians.
PART II. ON THE SUBJECTS OF BAPTISM.
CHAPTER I.
History of Infant Baptism—The Greeks, Armenians, Nestorians, Syrians, Abyssinians, Waldenses—The Petrobrussians—The Pelagian controversy—Council of Carthage—Testimony of Origen, Tertullians, Irenaeus.
CHAPTER II.
Family Baptisms—Apostolic Rule of Baptism—Family of Cornelius, of Lydia, of the jailer—Model Missionary Report—Baptisms at Corinth—Family of Stephanas— and Oikia—Christ and the Sadduccees.
CHAPTER III.
Christ's instructions to His disciples—Infants brought to Christ—"Of such, the kingdom of heaven"—The command to baptize—Matheteuo—Peter's understanding of the commission—"The promise."
CHAPTER IV.
Sameness of the Jewish and Christian Churches—No new organization by the apostles—The first Christian Church unbaptized—The olive tree—Testimony of facts—An unjust imputation—Nature of Infant Membership—Import of Circumcision.
CHAPTER V.
A Direct Warrant Needless—Female Communion—Objections Answered—Baptism not Inappllicable to Infants—Infant Communion—Advantages of Infant Baptism.