This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...The expression has the most absolute completeness as indicating the nature of the baptism, and the introduction of water, or of anything else, to change the nature of the baptism, is nothing more nor less than a sheer change of the word of God. If it be rejoined: " We are at liberty to suppi' an ellipsis from ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...The expression has the most absolute completeness as indicating the nature of the baptism, and the introduction of water, or of anything else, to change the nature of the baptism, is nothing more nor less than a sheer change of the word of God. If it be rejoined: " We are at liberty to suppi' an ellipsis from other parallel and more fully stated passages, and in such 'water' is found," I answer: The former part of this statement I accept; the latter part I deny. I deny, that " water" can be found in any statement made to declare the character of John's preaching. The point before us is, " the baptism which John Preached." Passages which refer to baptism in other relations are not parallel passages. A baptism preached and a baptism administered may have no more identity than a substance and the shadow which it casts. A reference to baptisms administered to take out of them " water," for the purpose of incorporating it with a baptism preached, is as wise as the taking of Omega out of the alphabet to expound Alpha on the ground that they are both Greek letters; or the taking of flesh out of the body and insisting upon incorporating it with the soul on the plea that soul and body make up one person. "What God hath made twain no man may make one. To put water into the baptism which John preached is to write a history of John's ministry under some other authority than that of the Holy Ghost. The Baptist Church declares it to be her glory above all her fellows, that she sternly adheres to the very word of God. If this be, in very deed, her position among her brethren, then she is, truly, invested with a pre-eminent glory; but let her see to it, that she puts no water into the baptism preached by John, lest she take the testimony of the Holy Ghost to the...
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