the scriptures. The christening of infants, we find by church history, to have been a very ancient practice; still we leave every one to give an account of himself to God. And if in any case debates between Christians are not plainly determinable by the scriptures, we leave it to the second coming of Christ.’ In 1689, the year after Bunyan’s death, this appendix was omitted from the Baptist confession of faith. May the time soon arrive when water shall not quench love, but when all the churches militant
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