ference would not have prevented, if the Holy Ghost had thus dictated. It is therefore obvious, that God has immutably separated the words infant and baptism.

Another of Mr. Sawyer's arguments is, pp. 18, 19, that God gave to Jewish infants the rite of circumcision, therefore there must be a corresponding rite to our infants. "But for that kind of arguing, that God has been wanting to us in his institutions, if he has not instituted this or that, and therefore he has instituted it, I leave to those whose conclusions need it; very much desiring them to consider what a cause that must be, which drives them to such bold reasonings as these are."Dr. Clagget's preservative against Popery, "Title 7, p. 93.

Another of Mr. Sawyer's arguments is this. Page 5,"Faith is the duty of adults, not of infants, therefore the want of it in the case of the latter cannot lay them under any moral disabilities, or be any obstacle to their baptism." "I reply, neither were the Jews forbidden to circumcise females. Besides, we are not expressly forbidden to baptize unbelievers, nor our meeting houses and bells; but will it do hence to baptize them. Surely this kind of reasoning will not do." -J. Chadwick on bapt. p. 128.

Another of his arguments is, page 4, "The rule observed in respect to infants, whether in favor of baptiz ing them or not, and many other things relative to baptism, not expressly recorded, were no doubt clearly explained by Christ, and perfectly understood at the time by his disciples; these primitive explanations are now lost."

"This has always appeared to me, ground, hardly consistent with manly fairness and candor, and calculated to enfeeble rather than strengthen; to expose to a sneer, rather than reccommend to acceptance, the cause it is meant to support."-Dr. Wardlaw on Bapt., p. 19.

When Capt. Syms declared that this earth was hollow, and inhabited inside as well as out, if he had been informed that this account of the world was not recorded in the Bible, we presume he would have said, all these things "were no doubt clearly explained by Christ, and perfectly understood by Moses; but these primitive explanations are now lost.”

It may satisfy the ignorant, to tell them that the New Testament is so brief a work, that the Holy Spirit could not mention infants in the 72 instances where it speaks of baptism; or that the law of infant baptism was undoubtedly given, but is now lost. But men of erudition must look upon such statements, as a burlesque on common sense. What Romish tradition, what heresy could we not support in this way. viii. 20.

Isa.

Pedobaptists formerly plead, that their children were holy, and therefore ought to be baptized; (Presbyterian confession of faith, p. 336,) but this argument is becoming stale and obsolete. However, it is well to notice the texts of Scripture which they have urged to prove their doctrine. Rom. xi. 16, " If the root be "If holy, so are the branches." The argument made from this text and its connexion, is briefly this. Because we, the root, are holy, our children, the branches are holy, and because our children are holy, they ought to be baptized. But still, they do not admit these holy baptized infant church members to the Lord's Supper, and other church privileges; evidently making a difference which the Apostle strictly forbids at Rom. x. 12: Gal. iii. 26--29. "For there is xo difference, &c.For as many as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ; there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."

The other text urged to this end, is 1 Cor. vii. 14. "The unbelieving husband, is sanctified by the wife; and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband. Else were your children unclean; but now are they holy." To plead that holiness is generated with our being, is to overthrow the doctrine of regeneration, and stands opposed to Gen. vi. 5-12: Psa. li. 5: Job xiv. 4: Psa. lviii. 3: Isa. xlviii. 8: Rom. iii. 10-18: John iii. 3-10: Rom. v. 12. "As by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned"-" All are born with a sinful nature there has never been one instance of an immaculate human soul, since the fall of Adam. Through his transgression all come into the world with the seeds of death and corruption in their own nature; all are sinful-all are mortalall must die."--Dr. A. Clark's comment on Rom. v. 12, 13.

แ Original sin is the fault and corruption of the nature of every man, and therefore, in every person born into this world, it deserveth God's wrath."-Church of Eng. Conf. of Faith, Art. 9.

"Original sin standeth not in the following of Adam, (as the Pelagians do vainly talk,) but it is the corruption of the nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam, whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and of his own nature inclined to evil, and that continually.". Epis. Meth. Disc. Art. of Rel. 7.

But if the infants of believers were really sinless, there is no better authority for baptizing them, than, "The infants of one or both believing parents are to be baptized, and these only."-Saybrook Platform, chapt. 29, sec. 4.

"I think Dr. Reynolds, in his meditations on the Lord's Supper, has summarily exposed the common judgment of Calvinists in these strong lines of his.

The sacrament is but a seal of the covenant, and the covenant essentially includes conditions, and the condition on our part is faith. No faith, no covenant; no covenant, no seal; no seal, no sacrament.----Pres. Edwards' Works, vol. 4, p. 435.

In view of these facts, if your minister says you should have your children baptized because they are in the covenant, just ask him what covenant.

"We can not allow that baptized infants whether sanctified or unsanctified, belong to the visible church; for 1, they can not belong to it by virtue of their own act, for they can neither make nor accept any proposals; 2, they can not belong to it by virtue of their parents' act; believing parents can not covenant with God for them, (and) in stating the nature of covenanting, we have endeavored to prove that it lies not within the province of Divine soveriegnty to take any of the human race into covenant, without their own personal knowledge and consent."--Dr. Emmon's work, and Mather's Magnalia, p. 19.

By examining the following references, the candid inquirer will be fully satisfied that infant baptism makes no part of Divine record.

1. John's baptism; Matt. iii. 1-16: xxi. 25: Mark i. 1-6: xi. 31–33: Luke iii. 3-22: xx. 4 -8: John i. 28-31: Acts i. 5-22: x. 37: xiii. 24: xviii. 25: xix. 1-7.

2. The baptism of Jesus Christ; Matt. iii. 13-17; Mark i. 9-11: Luke iii. 21, 22: John i. 32-34.

3. Christ baptizing by his disciples in Judea; John iii. 22-26: iv. 1-3.

4. John's last baptizing in Enon; John iii. 23.

5. An account of John's success; Luke vii. 29, 30. 6. Christ's sufferings represented under the figure of baptism; Matt. xx. 22, 23: Luke xii. 50.

7. Our Lord's commission; Matt. xxviii. 18-20: Mark xvi. 15, 16.

8. Baptism at the Pentecost; Acts ii. 37-42.
9. Phillip's baptizing; Acts viii. 12, 13.

10. The eunuchi's baptism; Acts viii. 36-39.

11. The baptism of St. Paul; Acts ix. 17, 18: xxii. 16: Rom. vi. 3-5.

12. The baptism of Cornelius and friends: Acts x. 37-48.

13. The baptism of Lydia and her household: Acts xvi. 13-15.

14. Baptism of the jailer and his household; Acts xvi. 29-34.

15. Paul's baptizing at Corinth; Acts xviii. 8: 1 Cor. i. 13-17: xvi. 15.

16. Instances where the word is used, from which some light may be gathered. Col. ii. 12: Eph. iv. 5: 1 Cor. xii. 13: xv. 29: Gal. iii. 27: Heb. vi. 1, 2: 1 Cor. x. 1, 2: 1 Peter iii. 20, 21.

And to assist the reader while he investigates the sacred Scriptures, we will lay before him some comments from the most eminent pedobaptist divines.

"It is evident from the addresses of the different inspired Epistles, what manner of persons they were, who ought to have been received and retained as members. They are beloved of God; called to be saints; sanctified in Christ Jesus; saints and faithful in Christ Jesus. Such as had obtained the like precious faith with the Apostles.-Rom. i. 7: Eph. i. 1: 2 Peter i.1, &c."- Wardlaw on bapt. p. 145.

"All traces of infant baptism which one will find in the New Testament, must first be put into it. Our creeds treat of it, without regard to history, and attempt to justify it in itself. But the manner in which they do it is unsatisfactory, and upon grounds that essentially destroy each other."- Schleiermacher's Theology, p. 383.

"Regeneration is the thing, without which, a title