Lectures on Baptism Author:W Ritchie General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1856 Original Publisher: Ogle and Murray Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can... more » select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ERRATA. In page 16, second line from foot, for previous read precious. In page 55 thirteenth line from foot, for was read were. B A P T I S M. " Far the promise is unto yuu, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." ACTS ii. 39. We formerly introduced, for the purpose of laying a proper foundation, three subjects on which we promised suitable proofs in their proper time and place. We now implement that engagement. To fore-close the whole case, and prevent further discussion, or, at least, to render debate superfluous, we are gravely told by adult-baptists, that the Mosaic and Christian Churches were totally distinct communities. This bold assertion is made, that children may be deprived of all participation in the external privileges of the Church of Christ, which is then moulded to suit circumstances. The words of adult-baptists are : " We lay aside the Mosaic Church, and all its ceremonies, as perfectly useless, and apt to lead into gross errors-" Paul, in his various epistles, and especially in that to the Hebrews, informs us how, and to what extent, the old economy has given place to the new. Taking this Apostle as our guide, who must be acknowledged to be a competent authority, it may be profitable to inquire what the Bible teaches on the subject; in what manner the Old and New Testament Scriptures illustrate and explain each other; and it is possible that the result of our examination may be a conviction, that those who so briefly discard the Mosaic as entirely disconnected with the Christian Church...« less