THE EVILS OF INFANT BAPTISM By Robert Boyt C. Howell Author of The Terms of Communion at the Lord’s Table and The Deaconship Charleston, SC: Southern Baptist Publication Society, 1852 TO THE SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH, AND CONGREGATION IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THEIR DEVOTED AND OBLIGED PASTOR --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS PREFACE CHAPTER 1 Infant baptism is an evil because its practice is unsupported by the word of God CHAPTER 2 Infant baptism is an evil because its defense leads to most injurious perversions of Scripture CHAPTER 3 Infant baptism is an evil because it engrafts Judaism upon the gospel of Christ CHAPTER 4 Infant baptism is an evil because it falsifies the doctrine of universal depravity CHAPTER 5 Infant baptism is an evil because the doctrines upon which it is predicated contradict the great fundamental principle of justification by faith CHAPTER 6 Infant baptism is an evil because it is in direct conflict with the doctrine of the work of the Holy Spirit in regeneration CHAPTER 7 Infant baptism is an evil because it despoils the church of those peculiar qualities which are essential to the church of Christ CHAPTER 8 Infant baptism is an evil because its practice perpetuates the superstitions that originally produced it CHAPTER 9 Infant baptism is an evil because it subverts the scripture doctrine of infant salvation CHAPTER 10 Infant baptism is an evil because it leads its advocates into rebellion against the authority of Christ CHAPTER 11 Infant baptism is an evil because of the connection it assumes with the moral and religious training of children CHAPTER 12 Infant baptism is an evil because it is the grand foundation upon which rests the union of church and state CHAPTER 13 Infant baptism is an evil because it leads to religious persecutions CHAPTER 14 Infant baptism is an evil because it is contrary to the principles of civil and religious freedom CHAPTER 15 Infant baptism is an evil because it enfeebles the power of the church to combat error CHAPTER 16 Infant baptism is an evil because it injures the credit of religion with reflecting men of the world CHAPTER 17 Infant baptism is an evil because it is the great barrier to Christian union CHAPTER 18 Infant baptism is an evil because it prevents the salutary impression which baptism was designed to make upon the minds both of those who receive it, and of those who witness its administration CHAPTER 19 Infant baptism is an evil because it retards the designs of Christ in the conversion of the world CHAPTER 20 Recapitulation, with concluding addresses Sovereign Potter |
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