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Excerpt from Baptist History: From the Foundation of the Christian Church to the Close of the Eighteenth Century
We come to the question of baptism. What is bap tism? It is the answer Of a good conscience toward God' (1 Pet. Iii. It is putting on Christ (gal. Iii. It is the voluntary act of a believer, an act of Obedience and self-dedication. Such is the uniform tenor of the history. So the multitudes went out to John, even all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan (mark i. SO the Samaritans, when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, were baptized, both men and women (acts viii. Mark it well men and women - no children! So, in later times, the baptized were reminded of their Obligations we are buried with him by baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life (rom. Vi.
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