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This volume presents John Spilsbury’s apologetic work on baptism. Spilsbury argues against the theology of paedobaptism, stating “that the spirituality of the new covenant in Christ eliminated the possibility of an infant’s participation in it.” The text examines the covenant God made with Abraham and his descendants, and suggests that “the covenant, and not baptism, forms the church, and the...

the Subject of BAPTISM Wherein is handled, and also disproved, INFANTS BAPTISM FOR a more orderly proceeding in the following Discourse, I shall first lay down the Arguments and Objections, and then give answer to the same. And for some things in the beginning, I shall pass over briefly, they not much concerning the point in hand. As the Scriptures being a perfect rule of all things, both for faith and order; this I confess is a truth. And for the just and true consequence
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