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. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...and of the East. Tertullian, in his treatise "Against Praxeas" Contra Praxeam), assigns to Trine Immersion an apostolic origin. '-' Christ," he says (c. 26), "appointed baptism to be administered not in the name of one, but three, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Therefore, we are dipped (tinguimur) not once, but ...
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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. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...and of the East. Tertullian, in his treatise "Against Praxeas" Contra Praxeam), assigns to Trine Immersion an apostolic origin. '-' Christ," he says (c. 26), "appointed baptism to be administered not in the name of one, but three, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Therefore, we are dipped (tinguimur) not once, but thrice, unto every person (of the Trinity) at the mention of each name." 130 LAYING ON OF HANDS. This form of administering baptism, --which, whether apostolic or not, is, doubtless, allowable even now in practice, --was rigidly adhered to in the ancient Church at the end of this age, and during subsequent periods; until, in the seventh century, it was superseded in the churches of the West, in accordance with the decision of Gregory the Great (f 604) and with the decree of the fourth Council of Toledo (about 633), by a single immersion. In the churches of the East, the practice still continued; and, in common with other baptismal usages which arose at this period, has been preserved to this day in the so-called Greek Church, and among the Nestorians and other Christian sects of the East. The laying on of hands (cheirotliesia) performed even in apostolic days upon the recipient of the baptismal rite, had engrafted upon it, by the end of this period, a new significance. Through it as a medium, the Holy Spirit, it was thought, was specially conferred upon the baptized believer. Without it, therefore, the baptismal rite was supposed to be incomplete. To confer it became, in the churches of the West, the bishop's prerogative. Therefore, though the ceremony of baptism could be, and often was, performed by the presbyters or deacons of a church, the bishop alone, it was supposed in the West, could, by means of confirmation, as it was afterwards...
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