Infant Baptism Considered in a Charge Delivered At the Triennial Visitation of
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Ii. Essay ii. , pp. 85, 86. Should such doctrines prevail, they may be expected to lead to a rejection of infant-baptism, and indeed to the practice (of which there were frequent instances in the early Church) of de- ferring Baptism till the death-bed. It would to many appear a cruelty to place a person, without his own consent, and in a state of infantine unconsciousness, in a situation, so far, much more disadvantageous than that of one brought up a Pagan, that if he did ever (suppose, at the... age of fifteen or twenty) fall into sin, he must remain for the rest of his life perhaps for above half a century deprived of all hope, or at least, of all confident hope, of restoration to the Divine favour ; shut out from all that cheering prospect which, if his Baptism in infancy had been omitted, might have lain before him. (E), page 13. I may add that not only the disputants themselves, but many of the by-standers also (even those of them who take little APPENDIX (E. ) 49 interest in the issue of the contest) will be disposed to heap abuse or derision on any one who appears to come forward as a mediator.
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