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of course, without faith, salvation cannot follow. Nor will any person either believe Mr. C's premises, or are they prepared to receive his conclusion.

Thus from scripture and reason, I think the impartial reader will say, that the doctrine of infant baptism is established. Indeed the reader will acknowledge, that little more was necessary after the establishment of the first propositions. Mr. C. was well aware of this, and therefore plead with all the ing nuity of which he was master, with all the sternness which he possessed, and with all the pity which a falling combatant could claim, that Mr. W. would 1t him loose from the old musty covenant, and from the doctrine of circumcision, here indeed his cause looked miserable. Here was the mortal disease of his system, Mr. C. felt it. When the discussion of this was done, little more was necessary.

In order that his system should live, the covenant of the Old testament, the church in that day, nay even the gospel of that age, must all die, they must be no more; and the language of a Paine, a Hume, a Bolingbroke must be revived, to bring down scorn and contempt, upon that age, that Mr. C. may succeed in establishing his theory, and lead captive unthoughtful, and ignorant hearers.*

* Perhaps the degeneracy of a part of our community cannot be better discovered than by the support which a periodical work, edited by Mr. C. receives. The loose, and I think, the prophane manner with which he treats divine revelation, must be shocking to the Christian ear. See his observations on Proy. 27, 27, and on Acts. 13, 23.

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tian religion, forming thereby, some excuse for themselves. It is a pity to find Mr. C., copying their conduct, and presenting it to the world for their immitation. Among the Episcopalians, he only selects those members, who like himself, have denied their own baptism.

3rd. Respecting that which Mr. C. says of the Presbyterians, I shall make a few observations. He asserts in page 183. For if, as their confession says, the sprinkled infant, 'is engrafted into Christ' by sprinkling, then its sins must be for'given it; then it must be pardoned and accepted.' It is quite sufficient here to reply, that neither such expressions, nor sentiments are found in a confession of faith, belonging to any branch of the Presbyterian church, and is one of Mr. C's usual comments. Mr. C. has soon forgotten his shorter catechism, when in a citation made from that small book, he can be contradicted by every school boy. By it, the church of Rome secures all born within her dominion, the church of England and the church of Scotland, secure, by this rite, all within the pale of their respective jurisdictions, each sect has its own views.' Page 183. If Mr. C. here means that parents, who have presented their children to God in baptism, teach their respective views to their children, then I grant that children generally possess the sentiments of their parents; but I have never yet been. able to discover a difference in this respect, between the children of Baptists and Pedo-Baptists. Nay, I have known some, who undergo all the changes of their parents, and with them leap from creed to creed. Will Mr. C. advise parents to teach their children views, they believe not. Query, how does he teach his own children?

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But why attribute that to baptism, which belongs to the manner of teaching alone? The Roman Catholick is as strongly attached to his particular views as Mr. C. is, he teaches his children to hate the doctrine of the protestants, with the same parthality, that Mr. C. would teach his, to hate the doctrine of Pedo Baptists. The consequence is, that children of the one, become Roman Catholicks, and the children of the other, some kind of Baptists. This phenomenon is by Mr. C. ascribed to infant baptism.*

But every reasonable reader, will refuse his conclusion, because the principle is not contained in the premises, the effects not found in the cause.

Mr. C. not content with charging almost every

*The reader will pardon me, for paying any attention to Mr. C's observations on other branches of the church. These remarks have generally their answer in themselves. I should have paid no attention to that which he has said, but for the sake of a certain class of readers. There are some, who casily take offence at the church of Christ, to us all, infidelity is natural, while Thomas Pain and others, proclaimed war against the scriptures, attempting thereby to disarm the church. Mr. C. is not willing fully to declare on their side; but while he almost concedes their views with respect to the Old testament, he attacts the church in another quarter viz. her practice, doctrine, and profession, with a few he may succeed, but with the wary and discerning he never will. Those who feel httle interest in Divine truth, or vital piety, will content themselves, notwithstanding of all that has been said, with a superficial view of.) the subject.

error and outrage upon truth, upon Pedo-Baptism; but interwoven in its being, he finds persecution with all its horrors, on this he reasons as fairly, as I would do, should I assert that adult baptism, was the cause of the basest crime committed by men, the betraying of the son of God, it was done by Judas, an adult subject of baptism and one indeed thought by Mr. C. to have been dipped. On the other hand the baptists were a sanctified people from the begining. That such was the character of the baptists, let readers judge for themselves, like other branches of the church, they have had their faults. Let us hear the facts from a German writer of the age, in which the baptists arose. Mr. Hoorne, page 318 319. Whether he was a PedoBaptist, or not, I cannot say, yet certainly he was impartial. "Their founders in Germany were "Nicholas Storch and Thomas Muntzerus. They rejected Pedo-Baptism and taught that baptized infants should, when they became adults, be rebaptized. That impious magistrates should be slain, and in their room pious princes and magistrates should be set up. They arose about the year 1525. They collected their troops and occupied Mulhusias a city in Thuringia; from ' which they led their army to indiscriminate butchery, believing they should reign without a rivel, and would have left Germany a heap of ruins; but Philip, Ldangrave of Hesse seized their leader, Muntzerus and took off his head, and set itupon a pole, in the centre of a public place, as a 'terror to others," and dispersed the troops.' Muntzerus like Mr. C. had his own standard of

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*This upon the whole, was rough treatment, of one of Mr. C's holy baptists.

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