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A new English translation of the Institutes by John Allen appeared in 1813, and was published in America in 1816 in New Haven, Connecticut. Allen encountered John Calvin during the preparation of his monograph, The Fathers, the Reformers, and the Public Formularies in the Church of England, and set out to update Norton’s translation. Reprints of Allen’s translation appeared in the...

instructed, should be recited; that the promises which are included in baptism should be declared; that the catechumen should be baptised in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; and lastly, that he should be dismissed with prayers and thanksgivings. Thus nothing material would be omitted; and that one ceremony, which was instituted by God, would shine with the greatest lustre, unencumbered with any extraneous corruptions. But whether the person who is baptised be wholly immersed,
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