Infant Baptism Scriptural and Reasonable: And Baptism by Sprinkling Or Affusion, the Most Suitable and Edifying ModeInfant Baptism Scriptural and Reasonable : And Baptism by Sprinkling or Affusion, The Most Suitable and Edifying Mode: In Four Discourses by Samuel Miller, first published in 1835, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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And Baptism by Sprinkling Or Affusion, the Most Suitable and Edifying Mode Samuel Miller. SERMON III . THE MODE OF ADMINISTERING BAPTISM . Can any man forbid water , that these should not be baptized ... immersion ; but that it is a method ...
... baptize , does legitimately signify the application of water in any way , as well as by immersion . Nay , I can assure you , if the most mature and competent Greek scholars that ever lived may be allowed to decide in this case , that ...
... baptized with the Holy Ghost , " in manifest allusion to the pouring out of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost ; when John the Baptist predicted , that they should be " baptized ... immersion of his whole hand in the gravy of which they ...
... baptize the people then ? By immersion ? Not at all ; but by being " poured out . " Accordingly , the apostle Peter , in giving an account to his brethren of what occured in the house of Cornelius , declares : " And as I began to speak ...
... baptism recorded in the New Testament , render it highly probable , not to say morally certain , that the immersion of the whole body could not have been the mode of bap- tism then commonly adopted . The baptism of the three thousand ...