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Excerpt from The Paedobaptist Mode of Administering the Baptismal Ordinance Defended: Wherein the Author Professes to Consider, Whether Dipping and Sprinkling, Are Not the Two Constituent Acts of Baptizing on the Part of the Administrator
According to Mr. Booth, the Opinion here adopted is novel for, as he obferves, Our Lord, indeed, gave a command to baptize by which it is univerfally under fiood, that he defigned the performance of afingte Attion for nobody fuppofes that fprinkling, pouring and plunging [abias, dipping] mutt all be united to con?itute If Novelty be applicable in the limit umverfal fenfe in which it can be ta ken, this of itfelf will be fufiicient to over throw'the avowed principle of this Work, and lay the Author Ofit Open tothe cenfure of fingular arrogance in advancing that which no Perfon ever thought of before. The Novelty oi it however, in refpeet of the di?'erent Sentiments Of many Paedo haptifis and Antipzedobaptifis, both ancient: and modem, is of little comparative Confe quenco, in cafe it has the Saneiion of the sacred Racoans'.
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