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CONTENTS.
LECTURE I. THE MODE OF BAPTISM INTRODUCTORY.
Division of the Subject – Position defined – Baptizo – Classical Usage – New Testament Usage – Jewish Baptisms. 1
LECTURE II. THE MODE OF BAPTISM continued.
John’s Baptism – Baptism with Water and Baptism with the Holy Spirit – Baptism in the Jordan – Circumstances of John’s Baptism... 11
LECTURE III. THE MODE OF BAPTISM continued.
Baptism of the Three Thousand – Baptism of the Ethiopian Eunuch – Baptism of Paul – Baptism of Cornelius and others – Baptism of Lydia and her Household – Baptism of the Philippian Jailer and his Household... 27
LECTURE IV. THE MODE OF BAPTISM continued.
Baptism into Christ – Baptism unto Moses – Antitype Baptism – Immersionism inconsistent with the Spirit of the Gospel Dispensation – Immersionism often Impracticable – The Testimony of Antiquity – The Westminster Assembly 43
LECTURE V. THE MODE OF BAPTISM concluded. THE SUBJECTS OF BAPTISM INTRODUCTORY.
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Baptist Quotation – Anabaptists and Immersion – Subjects of Baptism – The Position defined – Baptist Individualism – Mode of Determining the Question – The Principle of Representation... 61
LECTURE VI. THE SUBJECTS OF BAPTISM continued. The Abrahamic Covenant – The Administration of the Covenant – Children in the Covenant and in the Church – The Apostolic Commission – Children may be Disciples 78
LECTURE VII. THE SUBJECTS OF BAPTISM continued. The Preaching Commission – Christ and the Children – The Continuity of the Church 97
LECTURE VIII. THE SUBJECTS OF BAPTISM continued.
Baptism and Circumcision – A False Analogy – Children continue in the Church – Baptism and a Profession of Faith – Household Baptisms – No distinctively Baptist Baptism in the New Testament... 113
LECTURE IX. THE SUBJECTS OF BAPTISM continued.
Holy Children – Apostolic recognition of the Church standing of Children – Infant DedicationvThe Testimony of the Early Fathers 131
LECTURE X. THE SUBJECTS OF BAPTISM concluded.
Advantages of Infant Baptism – Infant Communion – Baptism a Public Ordinance 150
LECTURE XI.
REVIEW. The Mode of Baptism – “Follow the Lord into the River” – The Westminster Assembly – Baptists and Immersion – Infant Baptism – Baptist Methods – The term “ Baptist” Conclusion 163
APPENDIX.
NOTE A. BAPTIZO IN THE CLASSICS 187 NOTE B. BAPTIZO IN THE SEPTUAGINT AND APOCRYPHA. 188