A Manual of Christian Antiquities Or An Account of the Constitution Ministers

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A Manual of Christian Antiquities Or An Account of the Constitution Ministers
Joseph Esmond Riddle
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And it is evident that children were not excluded from a participation in this rite, from a celebrated passage of Irenreus*, as well as from allusions to the prevailing practice of the church in the writings of Tertullian (who disapproved of infant-baptism) and Cyprian, as well as from the controversy which arose on the subject in the African church. But, although from a very early period high notions were entertained respecting the supernatural powers and efficacy of baptism, and this sacramen...t was supposed to imprint an indelible character upon the soul, the church did not lose sight of its moral tendency and virtue, or cease to regard it as an important branch of discipline. And, accordingly, the standing rule of baptizing all applicants was subject to certain limitations and exceptions. Such were the following : — It was enacted, that none but the living should be baptized : — a law which intimates that a practice of baptizing the dead must have been, more or less, extensively introduced.

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