Excerpt from The Validity of Baptism by Sprinkling, and the Right of Infants to That Ordinance: Supported and Defended in Two Discourses, Delivered at Malden, in the Beginning of the Year 1804, Occasioned by the Setting Up of a Baptist Society in That Place B 3. Be baptized into the name of another, de notes our'itaking that other person, for our master, and our standing. In the relation of scholars or disciples to him. This we learn from that query to the Corinthians, were ye baptized into the name of Paul 9 They were called John's disciples, whom John had bap tized and when the same persons after wards became the disciples of Christ, they were again baptized in the naine of Christ, or, (if the Father, andof the Son, and of the Ho ly Ghost, thereby professing their subjection to that religion which-god revealed by his Son, and confirmed by his Spirit. So long as this baptismal form of words be repeated, with the washing of water by the regularly authorized ministers of the gospel, and the whole ceremony is conducted with decen cy, ' piety and devotion we may safely conclude that whatever is essential to the institution, is duly observed. 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.

Is this just another book on infant baptism? No. It is possibly the best succinct, yet comprehensive work on the subject ever written by a puritan. It was originally a longer series of sermons that Harrison preached to his congregation, many of whom were Baptist at the time. At their request, he placed his thoughts into a concise treatise that covers all the main points needful in understanding the biblical position of infant inclusion in the Covenant of Grace, and infant baptism. Harrison’s work is so acute in its biblical presentation of the truth of Scripture that the reader cannot be but left in awe of his masterful exactitude to God’s mind on the issue of infant inclusion in the Covenant of Grace, and the application of the sign of the covenant to every visible member in the church. He gives the reader an introductory lesson on the Covenant of Grace and those parties involved by way of its membership, and then proceeds to teach the reader why infants are to be baptized. Harrison deals hermeneutically with 9 biblical arguments on the issue; two of which are his most important foundational chapters setting the stage for the rest of the book. He also shows the danger of shutting infants out of the kingdom of heaven, and answers all the main objections to Antipaedobaptist theology on the issue. He ends the work with a chapter on the right mode in which baptism should take place, along with a chapter on applying the truths of the study to the life of the members of the covenant community. Without sounding clichéd, this work is among the top works ever written on the subject, and in my estimation is irrefutable. The unbiased reader will have no issues with Harrison’s biblical exposition and logic driven inference. It is a powerhouse puritan work that every Paedobaptist ought to read for support, and every Antipaedobaptist ought to read to untangle their dispensational theology. Harrison says that Antipaedobaptism is “to be justly abhorred as false doctrine,” and proves this to the reader beyond a reasonable doubt. This is not a scan or facsimile, has been updated in modern English for easy reading and has an active table of contents for electronic versions.