Observations on Baptism: Being a Reply to a Letter on That Subject, Addressed to the Society (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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In the next place, the writer of the Letter appears to confound two things, which are essentially dif ferent; and which the author of the Tract, if not his own quotation from the office of baptism, has clearly distinguished; viz. The formal ceremony, and the baptism of the spirit; the baptism with water, and the thing represented by it. The writer of the Tract declares, that submission to the mere formal ceremony, is easy to the flesh. Is not that decla ration true'! And what is the error which we are requested to rectify.

The author of the Letter gives us to understand, that the Society of which he is a member, do not consider the rite of water baptism as a substitute for the baptism of the spirit; but receive it only as a sign of an inward and spiritual grace. Admit that it is only a sign of an inward and spiritual grace, and there is little left for controversy. The Society of Friends have always admitted, that the baptism of John, no less than the divers washings prescribed by the Mosaic law, was a type of the purification of heart, which is produced by the ef fectual baptism of the Holy Spirit. We say it was a type, and only a type, commanded under the typi cal and preparatory dispensation. But as we do not find that our Lord ever commanded his disciples to use it, we think it constitutes no part of the Chris tian religion.

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