… work claims to adopt no ‘theological point of view’, yet dogmatises that baptism can only mean immersion; it is not for households but for single adults; there is no evidence that believing children were baptised; such references are later glosses or indicate false practice; and we must distinguish between ‘adult baptism’ and ‘infant baptism’, the first being orthodox practice, the second not. The authors both ignore the meaning of the Biblical words used for baptism, including …
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… immersed three times because they came from Armenia and Armenian Christians practised triple immersion. Christian has not only no contact with original works but appears to have had no direct contact to Mosheim’s works either and allegedly quotes the historian though he gives neither volume, chapter nor page. Actually, Mosheim does not teach that the Paulicians rejected infant baptism as such at all but points out that the Paulicians abandoned the literal sense of baptism altogether. …
… growth of Donatism was the love for a Presbyterian church government and believer’s baptism by immersion inherited from the Novatianists. However, evidence to show that Novatian was not an Episcopalian is more than lacking. So, too, there is no evidence whatsoever that either the Novatianists or the Donatists practised believer’s baptism by immersion. Indeed, Novatian was baptised unsolicited in his sick-bed when his friends thought he was about to die. There is no evidence that he was a …
Are We Reformed?
Aug 21
… and popish novelties promoted in the Dark Ages when baptism had, contradictory-wise, to be by immersion as it cleansed from all sin and was performed by sanctified adults only who believed that one could not sin after baptism, if they did, the baptism was proclaimed void. This, of course, led to the evil practice of re-baptism when either the church or the individual felt that the first baptism was not done properly.
Justification for this step is taken from the limited Bible …
… of the General Baptists.’ A mark of these Baptists, we are told, was their introduction of immersion as a testimony of the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Contrary to his previous argument, Haykin now maintains that the Calvinistic Baptists represent the ‘Puritan Separatist Descent view’ better than the General Baptists and cites John Spilbury’s break-off from Henry Jessey’s church in 1638 as ‘the first Calvinist Baptist church.’ Haykin sees the various …
… Römer, Spitelmeier etc. using many different forms of baptism which had nothing to do with immersion. Some candidates had a wet hand placed on their heads, others were baptised with three drops of water signifying the Trinity, a number had a wet sign of the cross marked on their foreheads, and some had a skillet of water poured over them. One Catabaptist let the water drop below the eyes, another above the eyes. Some of these early Täufer evangelists adopted and adapted various …
… to be continued seven chapters later. The exclusive Baptists argued that believer’s baptism by immersion was a guarantee of right faith and the Lord’s Table was for those of right faith only. The open Baptists accused their closed brethren of sacramentalism. John Brown, a founder of the Northampton Association, argued that the exclusives put baptism above a Christian walk and sound doctrine yet they would not fellowship with open Baptists of sound doctrine and Christian testimony. …
… of Believer’s baptism but Matthews soon became convinced that he should become baptised by immersion and immediately, resigned form his church and travelled back to England to receive the rite. Meanwhile, Oncken refused to have his children baptised and he and Lange continued to search the Scriptures. Oncken then corresponded with the Baptist historian Ivemy who invited him to London to receive Believer’s baptism. Oncken was, however, too busy preaching to undergo a lengthy journey …
… God in his providence might call him’.
In October, 1787, Carey baptised his wife Dolly by immersion. His thoughts were now centred on world-wide evangelism and he was agonised to hear that Baptists were at the rear of such enterprises. Reports of societies for the Indian mission formed by Phillip Jacob Spener (1635-1705) and August Hermann Franke (1663-1727) in Denmark and Germany thrilled Carey as also tales of Count Zinzendorf (1700-1760) and the Moravian missionaries to the …
