Excerpt from Practical Treatise on the Spiritual Import of Baptism, and the Duties Connected With the Observance of the Ordinance The following treatise embraces the greater part of a series of discourses on the general subject of Baptism, recently addressed to the Congregation of Shettleston. It was the author's original intention to have these discourses printed for circulation, merely among the heads of families, in the district more immediately connected with the Chapel. He has been led, however, to indulge the hope, that at least the practical department of the series, may not be altogether unedifying or unacceptable to others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.