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. 1843 Excerpt: ... the Almighty could pass it by so lightly in his revelation. Some people seem to imagine that infant baptism ought, if true, to have been mentioned with great minuteness and particularity, and with many repetitions. But is this according to the analogy of the divine proceedings? By no means. " The sabbath was ...
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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. 1843 Excerpt: ... the Almighty could pass it by so lightly in his revelation. Some people seem to imagine that infant baptism ought, if true, to have been mentioned with great minuteness and particularity, and with many repetitions. But is this according to the analogy of the divine proceedings? By no means. " The sabbath was instituted at the creation: and though weeks are mentioned in the sacred history, the sabbath is not again mentioned till Moses: a period of more than two thousand four hundred years. Yet, how important the sabbath was considered in the sight of God is well known. Again, it is not mentioned from the time of Joshua till the reign of David, a period of about four hundred years, and yet, as says Dr. Humphrey, ' it will be admitted that, beyond all doubt, the pious judges of Israel remembered the sabbath-day to keep it holy.' Moreover, the Bible says nothing of circumcision from a little after Moses till the days of Jeremiah--a period of eight hundred years; yet, doubtless, circumcision was practised all the while. " In like manner, the Missionary Herald, each volume of which is twenty times as large as the book of Acts, is now in progress of the thirty-sixth volume. In the whole of these, containing the journals of so many missionaries, narrating every important incident with so much minuteness, and continued for so many years, there are very few instances mentioned of infant baptism. I have not the means at hand of ascertaining how many; but though I have long been familiar with them, and have long observed the fact with some curiosity, and have specially examined not a little, I am not able to find, or to call to mind, more than a very few instances previously to the last two years. But we know the missionaries of the American Board are all Pe...
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Fair. New York: G. Lane & P. P. Sandford, 1843. Title page dated 1843. Externally good, internally fair to good. Full brown leather with black spine label lettered in gilt, gilt ruled spine, 7.25" tall. Covers lightly worn, mainly at the extremities, firm binding, pages age-toned and uniformly foxed with old transparent stain to the lower 25% of the pages throughout, all clearly legible, name in pencil on front free endpaper, no other markings. Hard Cover. Fair. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall.
