304 THE baptist; natUyoB »rt bjlf diNi4 ii«nB«)u.u. TUB TAItUB OF tcBt to MM aid «IIol»ey. 1. H. WILSOH, Br. brfiiM iron Msd totMa . Irtl^ngtOD, Iie« Oo„ Tazu, lITt ofatW-KaMrTHloB. «ar«»;ii •»«, Ja-oaJtv.,, THE BODY AND LUN6 BRACE. It should be worn by tftry eU p«rJ«<;rlii« I A dUAKB BOOK rou AOKITa tipn to th« eelebntod. Body kod Lane f brclbr-n will procaro On». J. A.UKiHULUR. ation of premature decay. ruUoa, sue., l-STt. 0«« i<««wrH«"IUwk Mofdii.io ~ Br»eo, tbe »l{e«cy of which I have aocspt- vtbw •Mor.1.1l Ihla. IWt I hootMtnr ,cuitMw uk.. dI, toi.. ^Ju'ii^'V" BiVt.?!*' " oeo and aak for tho old paths, whloh aro too go^ ways, and therkn, and yeshatt^^tor yotir MxaJm-^m^'^ •d th«t I mtkj make it a beneflt to my paper This invalmbJe arUcle I am prepared to ••tl.» liM>. nI .Ihla aarat :I tnt rkin cuitMw» ul duKJili tw.v" SoZ^iZMiV. t by faiaklBgI I a far greatw b«ncflt to jou. place with'n the easy reach of every Bvp- 1 f»n prsach wllbyiit jfttliUi th« li!(l l"' without It mlMl l«.>||.." I'|,I l.ntl/irr »I>4 taSTlJ^ wotn It ono month, i>r through ono meet- f«r the flneot horae In Oliluu coiintjf I <-ai! rro ommesdlng ihti invalaabU arUcle to you. rnmicna tlio Br»ro to »»«ry mliiUnr ( uhlic MEMPHIS, TENN., SATURDAY, April 8,1876. Mort than elghtoon yonri ago 1 wm inft, he will evormjre be grateful to mc. Bi-aakBr aA lhi> xtirj tUlr>< ho iuhmIh. homo, OldSsries—Vel. XXXIII. thoroughly broken down In »oioe, from Five hundred wioiitors and brothron ..OliloncoBtuy, TrBR. .» W l ALMKK $12 IIIllJ iHfut* cxooialv* preaohbtg. I could speak but a tnd sisters b»ar united tcsllmofiy to tho P u ti-Ml ' "This rite ofJiuinorsing and of bringing out earlier periods of Christianity was pomitted to fact that th's Brace b a poientiflc Skoulder little while without getting Aowm, My VKmAl.KH 'IKSTIKV. iBE CARKOIXTOK D8BATK. of the baptirtinal waters wa.s conimon and pro- all who ttcknowledgod the truths of the Qonpel, lor^and and Lung Brao» ; that It s ipports thwbaok, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL SINGIHC BMK thwat wM'generftll, I. y V,—yeasil undy huskyirriiJ-. HuH-rllt^ vf-ry inurli from "IlyRpnn-'o' i*'. c-i miscuous in lh« apoNtOlit! ago, hunco tho apostlo iind promised conformity to its laws'i"—ISi;eijory abdomen, Btomftoh, lutiftn; provcata lassi- ir«l .l.lilmy—th«. rumlt of pri.lrin li-.| iHi, > I .hat incTtaied, tutlc, hoarseness, piles, boruia, oonfump- .Mttlirxt fni-i havi, U-t.n *i>jirlim u Mtk " pa. {ilHETVEHTll fH-KECl). ulliides to il an a rito common to nil Christianfl. :ind Uutor's Churoh II is to ty, I). ii^i- tion ; iii-cn'MCB ihe brcathinn: oapncily ; 1 llliK nii'l "r*"'.' »n»l «ni «jti»l|..l ih"" unui .»v - » mooting my no t" " ' '.""'I'l""' Hum. vi. i, Col. ii. 12."—Disput. De liap. prc- Second Century. "Baptium* wa8^il)ul4««ly voloo failed ontlroly, under tho effects of gives sireuKlh lo the body ; iiioreaaea ho .lml).iily «II..<-U.,1 w.inl l I... h -n. fil".! i-v i HflJ riU«ll>lvNT:—1 concluded my I«hI Marliufl, p. IC. , . r, i ,>(»rformod twice a year. Tho catoohninonB (or aohronlcUryngitis.that roon supennduerd vlul powers, expanda and enUrgos ilic „„, Kl'liciiH I luogs ; renders broalhing free and ta»v ; Willi..>11, Ml««-, lS7t il ppoocii with tho testimony of the Hlnnditnl "To bo baplizod in donominatod oy iaul a probationers for baptium) assembled in., the bronehltis, which aoriously threatened my ' - l„ 1..I • ' iinf;l';iit , church on tbo groat festivals of Basterf ^nd life I was now oompoUcd to deswt from relieves ohronio oos'lvoneBs; it iis' d ^y 1 hnv.) worn lit.- Rre. «y.M i 111 in- ill t. hiiioriaim of tlio Luthoi-nn church. I will now being buried, according lo the ancient manner singors, lawyers, laborfrs, iin i » epecifio iln>>, nuJ «iu |.!,>i'»r.,1.00 jwrrfoi and emersion a resurrection, to which tha apos- tneir faith, and a solemn assnraood from their males or tcomb in foruaies. It relifvcn iitil II fur nn? C'.n. I'lf ratio.- Il In U> t li u Icongregntional, and tho MolhediBt, with tho tho volo«, that to a mini.tter more valuable Imv.i f<-r I • , fH. -'O t wit J N 1. - V tiBcd, went up out of tho water, Matt. in. 10. o»or. I applied to the most eminent phys- (>M|CI.-In. 1 exft1 |."Mtiliuu U't ! i • u T- nri., l.r.'k.' It -iif iii. dub. xxiv., see. 2. clothes. In order to proserTe ddtieiicy in tho !)oi» oul.HfrilierH 10 Tmk K u'Tkt $2 M) iiivi.|.tf. I t.n>>^T It mil ,1 Coruol Skirl Supporltr mony of the Cyclopedia?, when my proof will all operation, the baptismal font of the women was and this 1 was impelled to tako. AHl tUf.T .1 1 1 > V "M n ' I'l k liiiTcHsrH In l*0|tularlty Dr. L. Coleman, H. F. !>., sayw: Wh* cauBcd and eontinuBd that oonotjinl RUil 20 COHIH. iSi" t'>' liiiirti 1*1' r I't'-ft' tiHi^ I yrry ) rnr, and bo before you, and a linef Hummiiry of my nrga- separated from that of tho men, and they wore Irritation and hacking they oeuld neUber known to your moinbiTo Uml y c.. il I M,i II 11'Mrour It,, 111 thu primitive church immBdialely Bubse Draoo, uii'l by Itila tnuaii< you cau sicuri' llcll'l iinic. K i.' X ' milt '. » kr.'.«i.Hf^i Tim ment will clopo tho discuijuion of this propo.tition as much as possible attended by thla dej^conisjrtea explain nor prevent. Frovidenco tbrcrr !• r - ' ' ; '• I I lllf HIHI*.'- quonl LU the ago of the apostles HUH (ImmorBion) of tho church. Baptism by aspersion was pw- •m the remedy In my tray. My wife w61 .•iiv r.tu. I- • .. I 1 l-H.lMi;; '. Tho utmost that can bo said of sprinkling in fesBor ef tha Theory ond Praotloo of Mo

  • u cun h'oupo ii Ill fc l I 'I' -.1 1..- .\i 1 r . • I h. 1. .(11 M,1 .i:T settled. procured. The siijn of the cross was made nso If you will Bol! 6 Uriirt^s al Iho rcgwlju l<'<>\ A. UAtl'>tll.>, gily, permitted as an exception to a general was her phyalelan, and ho nrfwribod fyr ,111 -1 I 1/ f ' W fl*\.-fi,1^11)11 »..tlin.ny of the lllatorlana of the Prc.byt.rlan of in this rito; and a solemn prayer WOB uttered hor this idontieal Brace, which spooailj jirico I will ptvii you 11 llriiec rs a premium. Cliurola. rule. This fact is so woll established that It Ill ono of IhCfO wityu you om ncourc n iTjill-. on consecrating tho baptismaf water. Oonflrma- rrilovedhor, 8ho ctimplaiuod of n dragging woro needless to adduce authoi-iticH in proof ol Urnon; iiiui whrii you h:»v<' i xcurlonocd Dr. Philip Schafl', Ph. !>., born ISl'-t, oducatod tion immediately aucoeeded the perfbnaaaOM of down, and no languago could bettflf ex- Will M.m nui. I! • 111 ' 1,'l.w,. KIND WOEDS," it . . . It i.'H ft great mistake to suppose that press my feelings, and cspociaUy afior ii« Ixiuefils k<'M would noi iudii-y you i) . Ml . ..,1 111. 'Jli'h "'• • allho i;nivermtioa6fZubingen, Hallo and U«r- this rite."—Gregory and Rtttfr'j Chttroh Hib- p.each without it. • >• )i«"l"ii l'©\r 1 'f 111' baptism by immorsion was discontinued when preaching. U occurred to me if U wa' ..1 It i t>l...', t.,'.t f 't ll-M '/"f,-. 1,1 ' lory, p. 63. •- good for one case of dragging down, why 'I thr fun.' Iin.. 1 Jnii. II. il llii.l It I liu, profosaor of theology at Morcorsburg, Ponn., infant baplism became generally prevalent; the net for another. Without eonsuUlng any 11 "II,. «M.»ll» 1'. i.flt (i 111.'. I fi"t Tho reader will notice that tho single immor- r I'f 'lll'i,; t IC" 11 llllj I I I 1.' author of Hietory of tho Apostolic Church, His- practice of immorsion continued even unto the ono I procured one large enough for my- Ari-i Ifuoiiiii,; ' IK'- 1 ,1 II . S'.l til' 111 thirteenth or fourteenth century. Indeed, it sion was tho only act known in tho first oenlury, Bolf aid put it on. the first tt«e doubtless l-r. ,.1 1 .'ii'-llil) 1" . II " 'Jll I nl«t. ' y uti'l II. tory of tho Christian Church of tho First Si J TESTIMONIALS. .w.,/.' ('.'1,. I . 1 .111- ri,i 1.' t 1" I 'I'lI ' .1 . .1. M ha'< never been formally abandoned, but is still it was oTer worn by » »»«» fo* » ,-r< II, , . . 1. .11 tn CcntnricB, and about a doron other works of and that trine immorsion, practiced by "thoao Mtt, and the resnlt was. the Irritation of 1,1.1' iirl 11,1 1 1 '1' ' I r^il. the mode of administering baptism in tho Greek '• fvi thi. laal two laoitth* 1 hato •u(Irl<.l u^f >1 I'.il I ' I". .1 .- .MSl.flN ...«.» I'.rts churches that wero lapsing into the apostasy, my throat soon quieted, and tho backing filial from aui«-thro«t, from pfoachlng mil m.-nk- 1 ifl"ii™ ( much value, says; church and in sovoral of tho l-kstcrn churches. Inn AIkiuI th» Oral of Angoal niy thioat I.' Ill cam© with other and manifold innoTationi«,;»ndv ero long foascd, and tho voice commoMed aoro that I becamB oneaaj l.al It ahuulil r-'.iili iliipltti'c futeil. I I . II t .1 Imi-iiU t 111 <11 "Tho usual form (in tho apostolic church) ., k ^ 11'. , txUii."l' tiiil) 'I.•nil, , Hl'Iil.. A il'lr• PM Biii'i'i; I, 111 i^Mi'.^ 'In r-.tilA'D in a biography of tho fourth century, and this tures required. ,. ^ tiruached on thro»Kh the BDtfra mouth, prfachlnij ni,,1111111 nv i> llrit,' . Il- h i Ml W1 la u. iifmoi." " Immersion, and not sprinkling, was Braee I wore nearly tt-n ywirs w.thoui iwlco a day. In ftllfoll y Ihrwi boura. my throat I on t.^/.l'.ii''! I'liii I 'it 'll ll.l.lo'l. II Ml. I'D. r.» was prepared in a private house."—Ancient An abridgment of this history was pnhliabed communlcatiBg its wonderJul advanlagca not troDbled me 1» tha laaat. In thia connoctloii win iMt'ilily Mil' ir-'l ,1..,/ 'j- iiuQUCHtionably tho original, normal form (of Mcoan mo tor aaylug m ward to DlTllctt:.! el«tora : 1will.> « "llwiv •l,.('ri...l I > rtl.- W hftt f'•n.h i Hi W K I N \i rinii'ilr inf- Christ. Jvx., ch. xix., sec. 10. in 1810 by tho Northern Book Concern, New to any one, because I thought I was usinR ImllaTa the Braoa wonid bo of mnch aurylco to til" llr',f I'.'-I, II' I,'. \ I,"'' mil 'I III" .,1 1 K'l 1 'ii'"l t" 11' I.', .H-i'ir> '"I baptism). This is shown by tho very meaning an article that woe invsntod for tbo use of bom In many eaaaa, u It la to proachora I Kijoh Il- r. 1I7I1 M y I ii|iHir«- li.I 1iiioit1 f < lvit».'.'ill II ' '.'i» <• 11. .|'.i iti.'n. ' It In III', X I I* (I Dr. James .Murdoch fl77f.-lB5C;i, a graduate plained tho use cf the Brace, and tbroup!, .Intlia. A word to thu wt»« la JtiMi Mfirlli my I'f' II,III.ml II I' formed in tho Jordan (en), Matt. iii. G, compare standard pnblicationB. Now, all mention of how 111!.'' .. nij Irli iKl" of Yulo College, professor of languages in the me they ebUined i^ and were relieve i as Oiford, Ml«., 1S70. 1. • V .'I..' -Iincriii.; 11" 1 II'I IV A N rl' II iiii-iilli iili'l <'t|'l) with 16 ; eis ion Jordanan (into tho Jordan!, Matt. baptism was administered in tho first century i» 1 ytM I made known the power of tl.o wl.'. ,^^„l.t• il Ul" 111 I'l". 11. I !• CIISILSY. » I'l* M.atit •li'l »» ... mill tn ' 1| i. 9; furthermore, by the J^ow Tcstnmeut com- University of Ycrinop.l, also of rhetoric and suppressed I Why? ' " V ',rkT:lli), llll'i'i 11 ( .<11111 Ihii'i. r.'H--, 1,11 II 111' 11' 17 1 Km St. din- Brace to restore, Btrcnglhin and pre^orvo DKAU into. OUAVEH: For tho b.in..nt ol «n( V, » 11 ! ilunn un.t nil" a pn<'«Mit, Kiiittf llirce >('i»rs aprn, of ii. 21, with a bath, liph. v. 30, Titus iii. 5, with " Baptism was, publicly performed tttrice a Koncral Wfaknraa lo tho femalo. Tho tupporl..r» our of Hiiiiniiitr'N I iintr mid Hotly Itrai i-. FUKK TICKKIT and translations of various books from other Tho cause of hoareeneiis.Bore t*roal, lar- WM find on aale ganerally are nnaatlnfactory un ii accciifcil mill kept II for llirtH' yrars a burial and rosurrefitiOn, Rom. vi. 1, Col. ii. 12 , L car. The candidates for this ordinance ftssom- f-a:- warthloba, bat I can aaiuro all that thit (nrnlnbo- languaijcs, s.ays: I' yngitis, and finally bronchitis In miniB- nil the bsneBt that wo can got from m«chaul'-iil wiilKnil wtarlnK it, ratbt-r cliiHsiiig htinnnt'f r » ,„.,„. i„ r s 'ii.i I'll 'ill hnally, by tho general usago of ecclesiastical oled in th'o churoh on tho festivals of BastoranU trrs, and all these symptoms of "dragging iDoana; and lo ao exlenalre practlco In tho din mirli llilniTN iintliT tin- gciH'ral heati «>f i/'L'VTvJ " " antiquity, which was always immersion, tw it is to "Tho baptisteries were properly buildings ^V niiBuiinuu , jui" ultvi » down.'' goneness, exhaustion, after speak- oa'M peculiar to foiual^ I Hod thi'iu tho only nat Whitsuntide ; and aftor a solemn dooIaratJOT^ lufactary anpportor I can got. Ifou h^T« hnt lo »' liiiinbiifrKpry." llveciitl.v, tiiitlcr the '^UrilM O „,imlli I.. (ihichalU,v)t tht bovtU t» maka tbem naefol to their „ montli, I concliiiliMl fo try llie rojiM'tcil >.,'|,11|..I. fri.,'. .«"liil (ii.M.lc.rJ. Bubstitutod only in cases of urgent necossuty, cisterns into which water was let at tho time ol gink, kMimibjf markedhoUowM ovtr the ttpe r..' ..IV- diii.v o' i npi.r al«o. •••ml ct<. AS- baptism, .ind in which the candidates were bap- Gospel, thoy received the sacramont of baptism. Benatobla. Mln.. April S7, 1874. BrftfO, ftiul I f hesitate to testify NuI iiK11 III)"'. i.tnTiiirrt- N. )w \Vrrr.Li Yorli., IT K such as sieknoss and approaching deatli."—flist. to the- liivftlmible worth of this Brace. tised by immerKion."-Kccl. Hist., vol. i., p. 281, This rito waa administered without the public of tK$ hipt* Apos. Gh., p. 6C8. •M The diaphragm or floor of the stomaoh I cmi eniluro at least lliree times »lie assemblies, in places prepared for the ,feuPPOM, aiuoiint of labor lin t I <11(1 bofon- rrltliv, ULASS STATNKKS J. A. Turrotin (IG71-1V37;, professor of church note 15. . o , and was performed by an immer«wa.of Jhe aaas. and the atomaoh sinks with it. How I hate worn the Brace f»r thirty ilaya, and I find CITTKItl, AMI KMltOV'^l'.IN The recent testimony of Prof. Paine, oi tho all know that the Unings of the stomaoh oiitffttigne. My volte hftH IMI'UOVKll hidory at Geneva, who publiBhed five volamos whole body in the baptismal font. (Mosheim s U todo all It la recommonded lo do, and 1 aovuo AT EVKKY STEr OF lNrUElKt» offirt, I criviK ii wiMM.u'H A f^i'i:','*"'' are connected witi those of ho threat and all inln atera and RiKoriis to n»u If i hud Iwn i-.iiiusi" "iij ."•nil"-'"" ;: ou church history, sayB: Bangor Theological Seminary, 1 gave in open- Eccl. Uist.) It was also-performed by asper- affect the Tooal organs, and * ben the aloglag &b0Ht foor weekn whpn I recflv.d iho aid uiy physical Htrength ha.s been vvii WM. coui/nr.v & som, Brace, and my cheat and liinga ha.l bccome aoro, inoKt cmclciitly renewed. I would not M lUi 4 101 K. W St ,' lJ' !K»iTl,0. "Anfl indeed baptism was penormod in that ing my historical argument, to which tho reader sion or sprinkling. The Bigp^df the oroarwas •tomach alnka a atralnlng Is brought to - nili!»y -«choolii, Pr»y»r-ni'«t'ns« ao i fessor of theology in the Univorsity of Amster- Methodists aro fully committed to tho testi- Morrlatowo, Eaat Tonneaaoo. <}. A. LUfTON. tioual Exiittiiii»' tioe of ImmefBioo, but none fof (he onwa^nM kaa carried hundreda to their graves, and dam 1670, author ofCompleto System of Pivin- mony of Mosheim, tho great Lutheran HiHto- whieh yawly are laying a.lde as useless Paator Frit Dapttat Chorch, Memphli. This nnrlvalnd coll'clloi.«1 • a«Bor(ion that baptism wm altobr hoAdre^ of othem. The prolapsus of the rnirtr, tl)g»l' • ' ity, History of tho Inquisition, commoHtntor, rian, sinc« his history hai- been republished •ioD or epiinkling. But this act origiinUd.with thot* abdominaimuiakl mnaoleuiMBwtwwa i—s «h« caus^ , e of .th. e feel-. Oonaamptlon cared. If phyalcliioa aro c^rr'ct. BanuingH Brace.—It is one of the .Vm-. Mnrthy rcMoir, Onf-j vn'(lula t meW"' In 1873 I bought » Brace for my n<-phow, Jas. T. BTeatfHt of physical blesvln^ to a pnb- n-Kiwilhi "(/o«i«i Uf l Mi'lr i llllns'isia""K -lit —•» • ani- -l -1 "• F'T etc., says: in this country for years by their Book Con- who invented "signing with the orow," "oonfforattng ine orf xgoneneat" goneuw*" and exhaustion an—d ruller, who bad been prouuunced In the laat atase Ptlo«J;) ,wr li f.cni'tii.i, hy "'V.1'i.foctTrXf « blue Mondaya " thatmost minlstera know ofconiumptlon by tho very boat phyalolana In the He Hpenker, or singer. Tiio tPstlmonT " Baptism, theircoufliglB in washing or rather cerns, and it is made the historical tezt-book the bnptUmal wa'er," ".pomorf,' "fodfa^rs." of many minlKterH as to its great bene- • »le at ail booli.lorn, or cau t-e procurw ao welL as It la of htmia and piUt. Now, oouutry. 1 differ®.! from them, recommended blni Publish r.' .,11, immersing the •whole body into water, as was for their young ministers. Mosheim, wo have which Rater admito.were bumaQ iuTeijrioM. aftor » pewinrfl experience of nearly lo eet the Lung Braoo and he wonld get well. I ath would Mnrprise Ibo.te who know customary in tho primitive timei."-r-SyHt. Div., bongbt It for him, and ho la now a robu.t man. nothing of it. 8. II. FORD, JOHN CllUISClI & CO.,t'liicli!"ial'."' Been, sayn, without qualification, that in the first Aranment trom tli» TfiUawmy o* twenty ywn, ud the added experience of able t>.aplUra.l« or do any work. I write thla 3, v., oh. «vii., Bee. 1, on Bom. vi. l. more than fito hundred ministers upon became 1 think It ought to be known, and tbona- Bt. Lonla. Kdltor Dhrlatlan Bepaalt«ry. and second oenturics baptism was administered I have Htm other uMeotarlan witnesses .U»«,«*elo- „dj^fcm.l..onghtto know Prloei. Mood}'&SankejSougBook "Tho apostle alludes to tho manner of bap- whom I have fitted the Brace with invarl- Tlio price of the Brace ta »18, Imt t« all nUlatem by tho apostolic and primitive churches by a pediats lloligioM oyolopadttta I-wiU lor tfeey aU« tucceaa, I «a P^E"*®^, .Vt*®®" Frlara PuInt, Ml». 116, ca«h In every Inaunoe to aooompany tha order, tizing, not 08 practiced at thin day, which is tlfy of Ita real merits, ^rtthout it, I am at tho aender'a rlak, oulcas aent by P. O. order or performed by Bnrinkling of water, but as admin- total immersion oi the believer in water. Sprink- aro sectarian, and thtrefore liable to be pwjwlieed. KsprMa. . Litprft.rand roienUfio, or national, flydop«4la« Wt, aa^fied I shonld have been Uld aside from liaicaaa will money b« refnnded for a Braoe, mall, SB ceutg. istered of old m tho primitiv® church, by im- ling, with infant baptism, salt, chrism, tho cross, public apoaklng eighteen yeara ago. By bni * Braca will be ozrbanged until • perfect at la merging the whole body in water, a short con moil. iikplY b-f nnbia-«d bf partlian ••al MtaEitflUTe folly recovered %loat voice, 1 can preach day and night for two montha with •Mured—the purcbaaer paying the oxpreaaage. II ^EUher book maf If mail on rsfufpl t^ sponsors, etc., that crept in in the third and my Brace on an »». i„..rttiin« of and m blesaad with of uncommon one w-k wKhoat it Every m nl...r, atroM or flrtt time. The Brsoa, Ilka apectacloa, to banellt In fourth centuries, wcro innovations. ^owerand induramo^ Without H, two or waak, a.,""il'ur«».•.. I gnaiantee. taark of our epiritnal banal, for by that immer- Gregory and Kater's History appeared, in 1 The Bliubu t?u Enojrcl''p!*'U» •ense of f&gne, and Ua-e m« with a IIOTT to ••core the Braee it I tit or ••wlttaont inanejr and wltlioat price," The sion into water, and oontinnanoe under tbo 1833. Martin Ruler was the President of "In the Ume of the »po*tlofl iho fi.fm ofbuUns hSw. hiurttt Toloe; with li, 1 can apeak. •cc premlnm Hit ononotherpage. water, which represents a burial, baptised pnr- Tbo Brao* lant tu my order [pt •fcmat o rein- -A Wlda-Awak. Book far JJ'f-A^.'.V, Augusta College. p , „ was very timple. Tbe parson to ^ dipped SuTiarrr^day without tire, wu raoelvad tha Tth Aug«l, ult. Bho In Olreetlona tar BeMurlav. an. Conulna a novel elamenlary cM>«. Bons express their being buried to mn. —Oo koarseness. 1 now uwiit ou ^ whcn spwit- itruot*d m> to aay that aba la mneb plaiaed with Take e tap*, If yon kava not a raceUr moanr'. Orand Collaotlon of Mn"'"-. .T'f ,ocf First Century. "The initiatory nto of b^p- Tn" rl«r"r,ei.el. with the word, which ChAt had tba raUaf affordsd by tta b»». To bar tMtlnony In« laM-llna, and maMnra ttro inoba* Mow tba w.rk orokparienoad men, and Is "" "^'jJ.i.i , ,r fiom.vi.4. and. w eiprws acre full* bb obaDge of «ii*. and thiis prmt»e my ton e and phyi- ttp< the hlpa u-oand Iha abdomen, and aand thafu l OonvoBtlon book In the field, rrl'o •• iS«n was uBtiully performed by immemng tlio ofi anergl^ 1 do aotbe .ete that any I MB a4d my own. I bar* niad > "Banning measure In inobaa. F. Spanheim, a scholar, and author ol" a cbataoter, |;eT»w»nj' awamed » new BMie. BfMa" aboat thra* yMn. I kave >hK> worn many Thu Hracei are all marked In arm numbers; and doaen: by mall 75 oenia. Pnbllsbotl oy whole body in the baptismftl font, nnd in the one wonltl erer be affliot«i with bentlfcor other atyles of Brace within tho laat twstity-flva can bo rnlarEfd too Inchcs. Most persons IncreaseJOIINcHUKW I A CO., ^Ji church history, who died 1701, Bftys: •aes, o» weakaeiB of the back or loins, yean, bobnothlnf oomparabinio tho "BAnatng" in tlceh and rotnndlty by wearing It, I>nn't wait It^ wear it, erdinarUy loese, and If tho at H • Rwd ew. A gwd anttg nt l» Irarof TRJ^ g^ABTlST. 306 ^ THE BAPTIST. • -r • - - • ^ r.^-. are bjptiud for tfude9d,\a. perfect faith of tbe rMor- and ponriAit iiidifliir«it."«JI(«i»m«ii^ TOl L, Pi »- • WM not till ih»t th« l^Uttue i& II vat, or large vessel of wood, or stone, in which performed not by sprinkling, bat fcy waHhint, rection."—Com. cm L Cor. 3pr. ~ ffct, A.aeo 4 ' . . ' J oooQoil hddi ftt fiaT«DiM, deolsred tiaojeniOD or we aro immersed, for the ssiko of waiibiui;. the body."-Com. on Matt. & le. ^ '"TtTLment. a. foUo- on John iii. 22,23; Vli* AAmUtlem* of WaRtyiwo vf tk* Host O. DiodaU (1576-1649), • Sirua Iheelofiaa and iprinkUng to b« indttfarmi*' "In «ltu ooaniry malrnant Pr«sbriart»n aeliaUrs Ms* Baptist, one that immerses, or dips."—Inatit. Dr. Porson.—"Tho Baptists have the ad?ar that after the feast, Chriat came pmeber profmor of Heb»ir and (SootlMd), hovwrar, tpvitolFliDg wii:,si«ter pr»ctio«d "I.l II is prop*^ „ in the neighbor- CommvMaton. ataeneva, one of the beat Biblical wholarp »f hia in ordtawrjr OMet batoi^ the Bdoraation. From Theoi., loo, Jtlvii., quaw, i. tage of us. ^aptUo signifies a total immeraion'' iat(>i a to AnJSd 1 the tribe of Manaa- Since our Presbyterian friends leem so ready to day, both an anthor and tianalaioi^ lajat. ^ Sootlittd it mwle m way into Bnilftnd, in tfie reifa v^j Zanchy.—"JBaptiam is a Greek word, and (The 6ab!»tanco of a conversation with Dr. thr* pST^he evangelUt says there w« endorse the assertions of my opponent, that baptito "In baptiam, being dipped ia wMar pM^Pg to Blfiftb«tfa, barwu not Aotboriaod by tba establiifaed sijjnlfios two things; first, and properly, it BIJI- man.) See Dr. K. on Baptism, p. which did not so generally cbunh. In tiie Auwnbly ofDivinw, lietd mk W«st- nifios immersion in water, for the proper signifi- . rif JuC XgVapher. .late that tW two does net properly mean " to immerse," and that Rom the ancient ceremony, it» a Mored nolo a« that miniter in 1643, it «M k««nlf debated whether im- Estius (Koman CathoUc and Chancellor of the cation of baptizo is to immorao, to plunge under, sboond wer* „ot far from the con- VL 3 does net refer to water baptism, and that im- sin ought to be drowned in us by Gk>d • Spirit.' . ^ nertion or iprinkling ihoiUd be adopted; twenty fire University of Douay).—"'Tho immerBion and Bichard Baxter (1615-1C91), * diatlogniahed to overwhelm in water."—Opera, torn. vi. emersion performed in baptism aro a kind of ®„f rbrJorio and Jabbok, near which they mersion WM not the aot John, the apostlea, and all TOttd, for •priakltnc, end twentj/our voted forim- fljMoa of the Joro ^ ti,eee words preacher, author ofS&lnU' Rwt^d about one jinn- menion; and eren that Bntil nnjoHty was attained Vitringft.—"The net of baptizing is tho im- representation of death and resurrecliou," Com bo apo stolie and primitive churcbes obssrved, I wish 5 wo ma, le^rn 'that John and Christ dred and forty four other distinct treaUwa, "aj" on at the eanicet rfqaeat of Dr. Lightfoot, who had mersion of boliovers in water. This o.xpros8CH on tho Epis., on 1 Cor. xv, 29. to place before them, especially, the testimony o( acqaired great influenoe in the Awembly." ttistcred Viru^u. bj the submersion of tho whole Matt^iii. - the force of tlio woi-d."—Aphor. Kane. Thool., twenty-two—and 1 could easily double tho number— Arnol'Ji (itonian Catholic).—" BAITIZKIN to " We grant that b»pU»m then (In primitiTe tlmw) Speakthg of ancient baptiiierieB, it aaya: Apho. 884. immerse, to submerge. It \va«, aa l>oing an entire of their roont eminent scholars and theologiani', from wjsby washing the whole body " "Inotir^tbm d^n bo.h into tbe water, both Pnihp "Baptistery, in eeoleaia«t)oal writera, a place in IIOBpinian.—"Christ coniniandcd us lo bo bap submersion under iho water, sinco washiri' i tho days of Calvin down to this day. 1 wish to ask we are dipped under the water, as ••gntfylpg our whioh the cerraony of bapUtia >• perronoed. " Bap- tnd tKnuih ; and he baptl,«d h.m," tized, by which word it i» corlain immersion is were already a confcBsion of impurity and'a ihem if ibey will throw all these overboard into the covenant profesiion. that as He waa buried for »in, Uiterlee'were anciently Tery oapaoiout; becaute, m biking into CaWinB commentary on this vorse po we »ro dead and buried to sin. «c' siguificd."—Hist. Sacr., b. ii., c. i., p. 30. symbol of [lurification, the confession of enliro deep and accopt the aEsertiona of one man. Eld. Dm J' > ' Dr. Cone obietTee, the timea of baptum re- im|)iin(y UIMI a symbol of oiiliro purifieiHioti.-- -0 ,ee that he explains thm : Df. John W. Nevin. born 1803, an Am«rlcan thfO» turning but seldom, thrre wore usually great mult!- VoHsiuH.—"napti^fin, to l)aj)lizi>, Hij^uifioH to ler, as of more weight? Between E'd. D.tzler and all Cum. on Mall., on iii. G. ..From this verse wo clearly see what was tho rite tudee to be baptiied at tbe^me time, nod then, the plunge. It certainly «ignifiOH more lliuri fJUpitlil these they mual choose. logian, and professor of Hebrew and'Biblical Htere- among the anoienw; for they were accus- manner of bapliiing by immertioo, or dipping under zien," etc.—Dispu. do I5ap., Disp. i., thoB. i G. Bird ' It c.ni srai-ccly Ihi disputed ilm Calvin—"Tbe word baptizs siguifiM to immerte; ture ten years in the Theological Seminary at Alle- "'.'''S to immerse the whole body m water {Mum water, made it necessary to iiave a large font lihe- •'Thai tho apoailet immeraed wti«n they hunt » d itninorsiiiii cd' ndultK is the only foreu of bapiimn Wfawi to immer ^ ^^^ ^^ a.xtoeDth and it IB certain thai immersion na« Iho practice ol ghany City, ab-o Tresidont of Iba College tod Theo- wise," there is no doubt"—Disp. on Bap, Dis i., J (> of wliieli vvi« (itnl tiny traces in iheS{.Ti|)tur»9."_ m ground for tbe ihe ftDcieni church."-lu«i.. S. 4, th. xv., sec. l». logical Seminary at MoTCfcrsbufg. Penn,, editor of U e 2. Brand's Cyclopedia says: Madgoburg Contu^ialor.^.—" Tho word f>np(iz», On the -Vngl. Church. [>. tiJ. S t<> HpHnkle water on the body or James Macknight (1721-1800), an eminent Scotch Mercersburg Jieview, and author of a number of l^kF, "Baptism (Greek, Oipio, I dip), uat originally admin to baptizo, which Bignifies immcrHion into water, Sholz.—" Iiaplinni con.sista in tlio Immersion "Tae very word b-^fUz,. however. aiKn.fies lo divine and critic, thirty years a miniBter in Edinburg, says in tho Mercersburg Jteviev: Uttrtd by immtriion, which act i« (bought by acme proves that tho admiiilBtralor of baplisru im of ihe whole body in water."—(.)n lluii. m. C. h^erse; and it m certuin thu immtrswnwis the praetict and twenty years moderator of the General Assembly •• It needs but ordinary scholarship, and the free- neoQMary to the aacrament" morsod, or wafihed, tho porHoiirt baptized in oflheaneunt church " dom of a mind unpledged to mere party ititeresls, to KrilS(.he.— ' Thai baptism was performed, not of Scoilaod, author of tho lUrmony of the Four Go3- 3 Ohambera's Cyclopedia aays: - water "—Cont. i., b. ii., c. iv. Jhs dea^^. W l.en ye were SCO and acknowledge here [that tbe Baftiata h»»0 • by hprintilin;:;, but by immersion, is evident not pelo, The Truth of the GoRpel Hiitory, and Tranala- Baptism, in theotosy formei from (he Greek ikoniuH.—"Tlio Grook word baiitimnos Jonotcs intmorsod (tnfmj.n'mm., ...to the wato.-ol bap- certain advanHige on ihe •ubjeci of bapMsn IM tito, or I dij), or plunge." " Some are of opinion only from thi' natui-i> (d' the word, but fr,.rm t'(,Q of all '.be liipiatlea, with CoainientarioB and NoteB, original een^B of tbo word tay^tt is on the waote in tho iinmorHion of a thing, or a |>orHou, into Home- t" ,n ye were ingraitod into the death .d Chr.si-- that sprinklii^ in baBtism, waa.begun in cold o9un' [{om vi. 1,"—('um.. on Malt. ni. (i e their power. It corresponds witn idea of iiomerMS thing, either with a view to expiation, or for hit'is tho imnuu-sion (inO/.c^o) oi you.- body tries, Jt UKuiniroduceainto England about the l»ginnirtj; •'.)eau« fubmiUe.l lo be ba|.tiis»d—that i^ buried much more than with tho idea of sprinkling washing and cleau«iug."—Dinsor. I'hilol. Theol., Aiif.jiisli.---" Tin' word ' baplisin, accordirif; to ;„ water was a si^M. that yo ouijlit to be in- of iht ninth cmtwy" un.ier t>!i' wn'er by .John, and to be raised out of a 8 CurcelVou, tho learned and celebrated theolo- iJifiHor. xix. fiymoliHiy and yis.i ,,, f-if^'nilio.H to imniovsi', Hiib ; Red into Christ and bis .Icalh, that as . I.nst 4 National Cyclopedia: "The mannsr iti which mvrgL',' etc. aenin a-i liii embl.-ra of lji« tuiure death and reaur- gian, and profeesor at Gvneva and Amsterdam, who |",1 and was bu.-.ed, ye also may be dead to tbe rpciion . In liku luannf-r the iMjituni of b<>lirver» tne rite was performed appears to hare beou at first Deylingiiis.—" 'i'ho word hiijitwfsthat, an upod died in l(jj9, taya: ^ - . Kheinhard. In s|innkliii4, iho cymlMiiK-ni liosh and tho old m.in-that is, youisclves. - 10 rmtdemaiicHl of ihi-ir own d.-a-b, burial and r.<»ur- by complete immeraion." lu regard to the early by Grook autliorH, Hignifios inuuerMion and ovor •• Baptism was by plunging the whole l>04ly into •^•s-l whelming. Thus wo read in Plutarch (baplison mentiing (d' tin) orilinatifo ih ulioll\- lord.' Anno, on Uom. vi. reciion " . . •• Piaulc-d togeiher lu the likeness of hi. ouitom of the Eqglish church, it s»ys: "it WM the deain I he Uurying of Chrin and of beliJverR, first wa'er. . . Nor d:d ttie diiciplea ibat were wnt out seauton as thalossun), Dip yourself in tho noa, like Ktliics, v.). V , ]i. T:i Haptism is a C.cek word, a id may <•>1 practice of the Engliih, from the beginning, to im- in ibe water of l>nptiBm, and a'twrwaids in tbe earth, by C riBt adniinmter baptism afterward in aBy 0lh«-r as Naaraan (in 2 Kings v. 14) who baptized him bo translated immersion, as when we .mmor^e way B V, ch it. • j, • meiM Ibe whole body." I'r. CiialiiuTS.— I'hii ori;,jinal iiu'aniii:^ nt ilio fitly euougli rompared to ibf pbinluig of s.^-d m Bolfsovon times in Jordan, which wan an inimor word bupti-ni i,-^ iimiii r^uMi. — 1 ,ci t t>ii liuin HOinothin;^ in water that it may coy D Chamieru*. a great writer onayslematiotflvmuy, 5, The Encyclopedia Britannica describes the pro- th^ enrtii, bfcnune ttin eti-cl in lioth c id a r.^ivi- sion of tho whole body. So Ktiaho." flc.—Obs VI. 4. ered; and, although it .lUunst wholly abol- I.O..-DO' loa Hiat»« of p- rifCVijn " —.\poil. biJis., professor at Montauban, who died in IC'il, aayt: cess of changing from the primitive custom. 11 says: Sae., pars iii., obH. .xxvi., ROC. 2. iBhed (fur they do not dip the whole chihlron. Note on U lu vi 1 '> • Immersion of ih« wholo body wan used from the "SeTeral >bf our Protestant divines, flyioi; into •Mt'j'er.— I iiiiiit Tsiuii, wlin b tlie word ui Gurtlorus.—"To baptizo, among tho GreokH, but only pour a little water on them), they Dr. G?o Cvmpbrll (ri'J 17'JiM, an eminently b. Ktnnin«. which exprw^w the force of the worrt Germany and Swilzarland during the bloody reiKO of ('la•is^c (irt'i k, jind in tlu' Nrw If.iiuuu'i, OVIMS bi.pl ax whenc'^ John btpi'^'d in a river. It waa is undoubtedly to immorrto, to dip ; and baptiwm oiiL'ht nevertheless to bo wholly immersed, and l< U lud MMIBU-r, thrtologici-l |!N>IESBOR, cUurch histo- Queen lCary,ftnd returning home when Queen Eliza- wliore iiieaiif. —Com. on N '['., on Mjirk vn I. at,!!:.rward chaff^ed i^to sprinkling. » beth came to tbe nrown, brought baclc with them a is immersion, dipping.. .. The thing commanileil then iinmediatoly drawn out, for that rwtn. lrftn^l.ilor, and rreiit:ii CO and lain when or by whom ll c-->mrooncod. —runstrat great s-tal for thn Protestant churche) beyond the liy our Lord is baptism—immersion in water."— moloL'y of the word seems to demand. Ibe Scoiland HByB; tJ«.thol, lom IV , L v., oh. ii, sec. 6 •ea, where they had been sheltered and receiyi'd ; Jxist. Thoo., cap, x.xxiii., nee. 108-1 IT). i-('t;rni'ralion, iinilcd in tbe sacraiiiont . vi. etc.), were fj.win^ been employed in the 8en.o of ramo. to ^pnnklr nowhere used in tho Scriptures for sprinkling. — primary sonso, to bo immor«od. proper those who are baptized bo deeply .m thought iVy ould net do the church of EnKUn-i a rate from one another in tho later practice of (which, as far a-i I kno«-, it n^ver >». »' any Inst. Uist. I'^ccl. Vot. and Nov. Tost., torn. Jd., morsed." greater service than by introducing a praclio dictated Bishop Bosfluct.—" To baptizo signifieH to the o>iurch, wben in'fint b viitinu) cam i lulo ujb.'— or cla'«ttic.V) the expr.«iBion would doubtless nave Hcc. i., § 138. ti by so great an authority as C&ivin." plunge, as is granted l)y all the world." " It is Com , on Aoti xvi. 11 l."! In the Smalcald Articles, drawn up by Luther, been, ' 1 inaeed bapt!z» *iil"r upon you." IL Alting.—" Tho word baptism properly sig- 0. Rees'a Cyclopedia says of bftptiscn: " iu primi- certain that St. John tho Baptint bnplizc.l no Dr Thotnan ChnlraerH-" The onginnl p.eaning ol nifies iininorsion ; improperly, by a motouymy Dr Sii-T — 'Tho (x'rfent immrrswi ia nfi' nr-Mi ii'il he Bays: (h« woid biipimm IS .m-a»r^.o.i We doubt not tive times this ceremony was performed by immer- other way than by dippinj^—and bin eSainplf in form bui lainitn^iily inl'>nd -d in ihi' hi/iiiz/sit r,^ — "Baptism is nothing else than the Wo.'d o» that b^ipusm wbiLUMiernd in the ^^ of the Olid, washing."—Loci. Commun., parn i., sion." * shows that to baptizo a great number of peo[iU' Words, etc., vol. viii , p '-i'n'i God with immersion i.i water " »,v an , CH>.ii .ubme-uint: ol tho whole b.-.dy u.id. r loc. xii. r. ^ 7. Penny Cyclopedia.—"The manner in which it thoHO placefl were chosen wlioro tlure was a Conybcare and IIowBOn—"It in nnodles^ to vid And again ho says ; >vltcr (<• . H'.m v. :! t ) W , avrt lo thm lor IS.- This confirms our stiilcmtint that .Booondary was performed appears to have Jtt^u lirut t>y im- great deal of water."—Sco StennetL'H Annwei to purno." Uirow-DU I'tth' on Ui" ana'ogy «bu\ is in- IH»' b'tpiiAixi WIS (unlena in e.xt^eptiojril CHOB) adinin " Washing from fins is attribute.l to baptism , and n;,;urativo meanings aro not proper moaoingc. mersion." iiuHftou, p. 171. wtorod by immf-r-ion. the oonveri bein,: plung'il in tn..H- .1. us Ourmt, by death, ilis ti-uly imleed atlrlbulod, but the si-nil.ca Turretinc.—" Tho word baptism is of Gj^ck 8. Encyclopedia Metropolitan.—" We readily admit Wahcus.—"Tho ejctei-nal form of baptiHni tiKi"alli the Burfuci of tho wnit-r to repr. hnul !iij lion is too Bofl and slow lo ...xpress baptism, oriijin, and is derived from tho.verb which that tbe literal mcauing of the ^ord baptism is im- immorHiop into water, in tho name of the Tather, defvt.b lo the life of siu, and lli"ii raint"! frniii ttiH meraion, and that the desire of resorting again to tlie which is rather a hi-„ boll, of death and resur signifies to (lii>, and to dyo; baptizcin, to baptize, of tho Son, and of tho Ilo1y Spirit." — Hncbiri mtvftH»iitftry burial to represent bin rein to ttie underwent lui. -.n o l-M't-u ^^ most ancient practic<) of the churcb, of imoiprsing liffl riiilitfOiisn<^4a ll m iJ'. b.* n eubjoc of togr«l reclion. i5einn moved by this reason, 1 li?;cd to be alto xi., sec. 4. * . is well worthy of being considered." DirtnysiuH PctaviuH, Hpoaking of the ohurch u ot bRjiti.ini (cough pcrhaii^ in our nortficru golher dipped into the water, as the word .lolb "(Jr. HAITO d n.vPTizo, mergn fi ci'tiiiitP=) h;v! .rt'n'l T.id ob.'Curi< to pipulsr uppretn-i)- Lmilar U.c act ol derc^din, un- .r 9 Encyclopedia Americtna—"Biptism (that pretended power to al!,or or to im|io«e, sayH ; smind, and the mystery doth signify." monjito. Vo-ss. Etym. To dip or niorgo fre- dipping, immersing, from the Greek bfipUh), was tiioti KHiK- v-'ry iniporlfinl. o' fNiiiii* uii< '— U.e water Ol K- h-'V.! nti old lite "And indeed immcrHion . is properly styled John Wi-flUy (17031751), the noted preacher, (inenlly, to sink, to plunge, to »mmorgo. " The usual with the Jews even before-Cbrist." *' In the L.itp sad E[>iHllas.of Si PJUI, vol i , P.nd in tbr «ct^>f lo or.fif-e in'o « .^coud baptisinos, though at present wo content our- word baptism is dorivod from the Greek baptizo, time of the apostles, the form of baptiom wa>> very Archb Sumner—'John w^s bH'li»in>-' < «•, In- ichoUr, author, and founder of Mtthodism in 1729, or new 1 fe." . simple. The person to be bsptizad was dipped in u lonac Ca-aubon (15,--.O 1614), a Oalvin.stx theologian and means literally dipping or immersion. — HelvoH with pouring water on tho head, which mcrniug in water, ibo.o wtio e im < i" hitn for this lays: river or vessel with rhe word* which Chrim had in Greek is called perichusis."—Dogm. Theol. 1. purpofl«, 'confessing their einn. "—E*^) Leo, on ' Buried with him, alludin)? to the ancient manner and critic, Greek profe^nor at Geneva fourteen yeara Bncy., Art. Bap. _ ordered;" and. io ••xpresa piore fully his cbungo of iii., do poni., cap. i., soc. 11. John 19-28 of bspl'z nc by immersion."—Note on Rom vi 4 aUo h^ld the chair of Ore. k and bt llea letters in the Witsius.—" It cannot bo denied, that tho na- character, generally adopted a new name." "The ancient manner of bft:.t.«mB by immersion is scholaUniversitr ofy hioBf ageMoutpellier, Bftya: . and mo.t critical Greek tivo signification of tho woida baptejn andbap- 10. The Encyclopia Ecclesiastica says: . Cattenburgh—" In bapti-sra tho wholo body Ncander.—".Johu'a follojrera wero entirely immsra ed in the water."—Life of Cbri»i, p. 55 manifMtlv alluded to hero '—O'l C >1 n 12 '< This was tho rite of baptising, that persons tizein is to plunge, to dip."-(Eoon. Pad. 1. iv., c. " Whatever" weight, however, may be in theso rea" is ordered to bo immersed."—Spicil, Thool., 1. In hiB Journal for Georgia of February 21, 1.36 wero plunged into the water which the very sons, as » defence for the present practice of sprink- iv., c. Ixiv., sec. ii., 22. Dr. li^DBe —" John administered tho rite of eu^imer- "'iris certain t»at both John the Bapt'ai, «»yi: word baptizcin, to baptiz-o, flufficiontly declares; ling, it is evident that during the first ages of ibe This is what 1 maintsin. If baptiio Bignifles siou." " Ilis idea of repentance exooed^d tho cu^ •nd ih« disciples of Christ ordinarily p^tle, ,mmer- ward r'-quirementa of ih« Mosaic law a» much an liii which, as it does not signify dunein, to sink to eharcb. and for many oenturiea afterward, tne prac- "Mary Welch, aged eleven davs, wa^ bapUi^ iion."—Kcon, Of the Cov , b. o xvt, g 15 tice of immersion prevailed.'' to sprinkle upon, thon tho wholo body is to bo rite of immerBion that of sprinklinR ' " AnH were fteooidiug to the custom of tbe fint church ami the tho bottomand perish, BO doubtless it is not bjptised, immersed, in the Jordan, confeasmg their Eld. Ditzlor can deny, though he can offer no Hen it the testimony of ten literary and historic sprinkled or pourod upon, and not tlio head or rule of tbe church ol England, by immersion. rpipolazcin, to swim on tho Hurfaco. th^o Adam Clark, LL D., F. S A (1760-18321 the cd- proof of it. ^^^ . standards, the ablest and most trnatworthy in our face only. aiiis. loimeraion WAS the symbol of reppntance. throe words, epipolazcin, baphzein and dunem According to Meyer, repeniBnca wa^ aymbolued by ebraied commeblalor, says: " U is proba,ble that the To of different eigaitications. Whonco weunder- language. They were not written for sectarian pur- Buddeus.—" Tho words haplizein and baptismos J. G. Altman (1697-1758), a Swiss hlBtorian immerson. because," etc—Com on Ma'.t, vol. i,pp. apostle here alludes to the mode of adinin.f.iermg Htand it was not without reason, that some poses, to defend anybody's dogma, nor in the interest are not to bo intqrpretod of aspersion, but always and divine, also prolessor of moral phUosophy 113,115,118 Clark's odl baptism by immersion, ihe wholo body being pot loDE ftRO insisted on tho immersion of the whole of immersion."—'fheol. Dogm. 1, v., c. i., sec. 6. undor the water." In loco. , and Greek at Berne, says: . * ofany i^ty or se^ but as scientific, literary and body in the ceremony of baptism ; ^^ th°y »rge CoDtrael this honest statement of D-. L\nge with "When he (the person baptiied) came »P out or historic standards fo^all classes, parties and peoples, Bishop Taylor teaches that Scriptural bap- "In tho primitive choroh persons to be bap- •i«isi an apparent appeal lo iga')roD03 of the import of a the water, be itemed to have a ruurTtelton to life. He tho word baptizrin, to baptizo."-Annot. in Matt. idming only at facts, truth. They all agree a* to the tism is " not sprinkling, but immersion, in pur- iii. (>. tiaod were not sprinkled, but entirely^ immera^ Greek word, by my opponont was therelore supposed to throw oiT bis old (jen-ilo piMtibe of the apostolib church, corroborating just Buance of the sense of tho word in the command- Btate, as he threw ofl his clothes, and to Moume a p Van Mastriohl, a scholar of reputation, and in water, whioh was porformod according to tho Dr. Alford.—"The baptiim of proielylea WMWI- what all"'the dictionaries assert, that baptism was ment and the example of our blessed Savior."- new character, as the baptized generally put on now example of John tho BaptiBt."-On 1 Cor. xv. miniBtered" "bylmmersion of the whole person." "It author of works on theologf, who died in 1706 says: immenion. They also tell us that sprinkling waa or fresh garments."—Comment on Bom. . 29, see. 8. ,, , ^ Tyndale.—"The plunging into water signi- moat probable that John's baptism in outtvsrd "That the baptism of John wai by Ihe - gradndly introduced, first in the case of the sick who fieth that we die and are buried with Christ, as form resembled that of proselytes."—Gr. Tea on body (after the sane manner as the wastiing uDO'eM Ur. L. Colemaa, S. F. D., born 1796,anoUd oonld nok leave their beda, and that in from one concerning the olde life of sinne, which is Adam : Matt ill 6 persons-waO Bcems to appear from thoje ihiMS scholar and church historian, says;^ j thonswd to thirteen bnndrM years after Christ, it and the pulling out againe significth that we Bp. Browne—" The language of tho which are relited of him; namely, that he bavUMtdin " Tho terra baptism is derived from th» Gmk, t. ' tire churches. (B^m vl 3, 4 5 ) .ec. 9 oame into general nse in Germany, France and Great rise againe with Christ in a newe life."—Obe. of and of the primitive fsthera snfficienlly poioSs to im- Jordan, that he baptiaed in Enon, teeoMethae •»« baptizo, with its derivatives James Basnage, a man of great learning, a church mersion OS the common mode of baptism John tbe much wa«r ther* " etc.—Com. at the end of Mark. Britain. Oanife rely npon their testimony T If nei, a Chris. Man, p. 143, edi. 1571. ti^a, baptism. The primaiy Baptist baptisad in the river Jordan (Matt. ni). "' Buried,' etc., alluding to the immersion histP-iax who d'ed ir 1723 npon whose leitimony can we rely? Ought not their Seiden.—«In England of late years I ever in the ease of adult., when tho person tho original U, to dip, to plnnge, immerM. The thought the parson baptized his own fingers is represented as 'coming out of thenater • This (the - . rope Stephen m h..,ear tmtimony aloae to be odnclnsive T after His baptinn (Mark i. 10) Agahi, John u said be buried under tho water, as Christ waa tnned in obvious import of the noun is immoMion. — rather than tho child."—Works, vol. vi. col. the heart of the earth; his ruing again the thii^ day, 7.'i4) U a^couo.ed .ne ti .1 law .g.-nst 4.rB«m«mtCrOMth« Taattmeay tb» Bost to havo baptiied in Bnon because there was much Christian Antiquities, p. 255. 2008. and there emerging from the waw, was an enblem of Kmlmemt FsdoMiptlsta. water there (John iii 23; see also AcUviii 36). —in theresurreotiod^of thebody.anda toUl change of kioii. "xcep^ lu 0.4.C «» 'Xireaie u