The Form Of Baptism An Argument Designed To Prove Conclusively That Immersion Is The Only Baptism Authorized By The Bible

The Form of Baptism

The Form of Baptism; an Argument Designed to Prove Conclusively That Immersion Is the Only Baptism Authorized by the Bible

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... THE ORIGIN AND MODE OF CHRISTIAN BAPTISM IN ANSWER TO AN IMMEESIONIST TREATISE, ENTITLED, "THE FORM OF BAPTISM." By The Rev. JOSEPH L. TUCKER, D. D., Rector of Cbrist Church, Mobile. THE ORIGIN AND MODE OF BAPTISM. There has recently been published a treatise which purports to furnish "conclusive proof" that Immersion is the only form of Baptism taught in the Bible, and an expression of judgment has been called for as to whether the argument contained in this treatise does or does not make good this claim. The claim is a very large one. Since the day when the matter was in dispute between the disciples of St. John the Baptist and the Jews, as we read in the third chapter of St. John's Gospel, at the twenty-fifth verse, baptism has been the subject of frequent controversy; and every aspect of it, moral and material, spiritual and physical, has been discussed to exhaustion. Infidels, heretics, sectarians, and inventors of strange views have assailed it one side or another, and fathers and theologians have defended and established it; until finally there has come about a general consensus of opinion, and belief has settled and crystallized in the main around two poles, viz., the Catholic faith, which holds to regeneration in baptism, and the Evangelical faith, which denies regeneration in baptism. The former includes the Soman, the Greek and the Angelican churches, together with those who hold to the Anglican and Westminster Confessions, whose utterances are clear on this subject, or about nine-tenths of all Christians, all of whom also practice infant baptism; and the latter includes various sects of modern origin and short histories, with some minor schools of thought in the older churches. The literature of the subject is immense. No...

The Form of Baptism, an Argument Designed to Prove Conclusively that Immersion is the Only Baptism Authorized by the Bible