Letters On Christian Baptism, As The Initiating Ordinance Into The Real Kingdom Of Christ

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book without typos from the publisher Not indexed Not illustrated 1841 Excerpt LETTER I JiNUART 1 1840 To my Numerous Christian Friends and acquaintance The recurrence of a new years day reminds us of time past the rapidity of its flight our rapid approach to the judgment and that whatever we do for the prosperity of Zion must be done soon A subject has rested with great weight upon my mind during three or four years past which to me appears to be of great importance Taking one side of the question involved tends in my view to continue and increase divisions among Christians to divide arid weaken their influence to establish more firmly sectarian jars with all its horrors to increase and foment divisions in the cause of benevolence at home and abroad and thus to be instrumental in the ruin of souls and greatly to retard the millenial day But taking the right side of the question to me seems necessary in order to unite the influence of Christians in those noble objects to remove divisions to stop the mouth of gainsayers and infidels and to prepare the way of the Lord It is now about two hundred years since Christian Baptism a positive ordinance of Jesus Christ was actually cashiered and pushed away by a whole kingdom m ecclesiastical council at Westminister and something substituted in its place of mere human invention The circumstances I am sure are not generally understood A portion of Christendom still honestly and conscientiously cleave to Christian baptism as an ordinance of Christ and can not dare not exchange it for a mere human invention They feel that thus to alter the laws of Christ by human legislation would be hightreason against Heaven that to alter the laws of Christ in the least is to establish a principle which would admit of unlimited alterations that to discard one