The Scripture Guide to Baptism : Containing a Faithful Citation of All the New Testament Passages Which Relate to This Ordinance (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Scripture Guide to Baptism: Containing a Faithful Citation of All the New Testament Passages Which Relate to This Ordinance

Being, however, afterwards brought under a faithful ministry, I observed a most astonishing difference between the statements of the pulpit and the sentiments I had been taught in childhood, as given above. Here I was taught that all mankind were by nature sinners, depraved, and guilty, - that unless they be brought to repent of sin, to believe in Christ, to seek and find mercy from God through the Saviour, they must inevitably perish l' - As to what was done for me in infancy, I was assured it profited me nothing. My excellent minister would not hesitate to appeal to his congregation, in the inquiries which recently appeared in a public paper: Is not the sponsorial part of the baptismal service a fragment of Popery, without the shadow of a foundation in the Holy Scriptures?

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