The Doctrine of Christian Baptism Examined By the Acknowledged Principles of Bi
The Doctrine of Christian Baptism Examined By the Acknowledged Principles of Bi
James J Woolsey
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Ii. P. 515. I shall close my remarks respecting these certain disciples at Ephesus, by a citation from the writings of Dr. Lightfoot, a most zealous advocate for sprinkling, in support of which he lent the whole weight of his influence, unless controlled by the potency of truth. He says: "Not that they were re-baptized, but that, now coming to the knowledge of the proper end of John's baptism, namely, to believe in Jesus ; as ver. 4, they own their baptism to such . An end and construction. For..., 1. What need had they to be re-baptized, when, in that first 196 JOHN'S BAPTISM VALID. baptism they had taken, they had come in to the profession of the gospel, and of Christ, as far as the doctrine thai had brought them in, could teach them? It was the change of their profession from Judaism to Evangelism, that required their being baptized, and not the de- grees of their growth in the knowledge of the gospel, into the profession of which they had been baptized already. How many baptisms must the Apostles have undergone, if every signal degree of their coming on to the perfect knowledge of the mystery of Christ might have required — nay, might have admitted — a new baptizing?
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