Excerpt from Truth Defended, in a Supposed Trial Between Infant Affusion and Believer's Baptism: To Which Is Appended, a Letter to Joseph John Gurney, Esq., On Baptism and the Lord's Supper This second edition of my work on Baptism has been remodeled and revised, and is now submitted to the public under another title, the one originally chosen having been generally deemed repulsive, especially by those who are unacquainted with the Greek language. With a view to render the work more connected, and more convincing, I have controverted seriatim the arguments on each text of scripture brought forward by the Plaintiffs' Witnesses in proof of their claim to the blessings bequeathed while to make manifest the wrong position which the Plaintiffs have taken up, I have entered extensively into their sayings and doings. To strengthen the position of the Defendants, I have also entered largely into the bearing of the commission of Christ as it respects believers, and on the leading truths of the scriptures as they affect all men. I have also introduced more characters as Counsel for the Plaintiffs, with their additional pleadings, which has of necessity increased the size of the work more than I at first intended; but I have greatly abridged the evidence of the Plaintiffs' Wit nesses, which in the former edition was thought to be too prolix, extracting from their works only such passages as have a direct reference to the texts under discussion. 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.