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The Supper is a church ordinance, and it be- longs to not all ivho are baptized^ but oidy to those who are baptized members of the church. Bro. H has been bap- tized, but he is not a member of any church. He was bap- tized by a Minister of the Church of England. Very well. We respect his baptism ; but he was not received into the membership of the Church of England. And he does not consider himself a member of that church, or of any other, and therefore he has no ri<^ht at the Lord's labU\ and ive have no right to invite him there till he unites with some evangelical church." K^ \ () n n h h tl ba dc 5 And Mr. S- ve was tirm, and I was obliged to submit to what 1 then deemed a very great hardship and a grievous wrong. I5ut I long since learned that he was right in put- ting the order ol' the Lord's house above the clamour of pri- vate allection, or personal interest and feeling. In refusing to invite Bro. H to the Lord's Table, he acted upon s/rici Prabyterian principles^ and upon strict Baptist principles as well." I appeal to every intelligent and thought- ful person, and ask, " Wherein do the Presbyterian, Epis- copal, Methodist, and Congregational denominations ditler from the Baptist on the subject ot communion.^" — You must admit that all five are close cujnninnum bodies. Then it is a settled fact that all live have solemn Iv pledged themselves, that they will permit no person to sit down at the Lord's Table, who has not been bapti::ed. And any church ihat violates this law of their creed ; any local church that, for the sake of appearing liberal, invites and permits any to sit down to the sacred ordinance zvho have not been baptized, is amenable to the disciplinary laws of its denomina- tion, is a traitor to the King ot kings, and nmst be classed with that mixed multitude of heretics who handle the Word of God deceittully, and teach lor doctrines the command- ments of men. I fancy 1 hear some say, " W^ell, I never looked at the sub- ject in that way before, but I now see that we are all close- communionists. And oii that subject I will never think the Baptists as pursuing a course dilferent from other churches, as all demand that a person must be baptized before he partakes of the Lord's snpper. But please to tell me, Mr. Adams, why is it that the Baptists do not invite and permit members of other denominations to sit down with them at the Lord's table f' Now you are approaching the real point at issue. We do not invite them to the Lord's Table because those who have not been baptized, have no right there. And as those who have been only sprinkled, have not been baptized, they have no right to be at the Lord's Table. So you see that the real point at issue between us, is not the communion, but baptism. Then let us pursue the subject as to, " Why the Baptists do not accept those who have been sprinkled as baptized persons, and therefore as disqualified for participation with them at the Lord's Supper." First, How many Baptisms are there in the New 1 esta- "" Ephesians 4. 5. says "One Lord, one faith onehaptism." How many baptisms are there practised by the atoresaid de- nominations? three, immersion. Pouring, and sprinkling It tne Word of God says onlv one, two of those forms mustbeivrong Then the task before us is to ascertain xvhich one ot the ///m' is the one commanded by Christ, and practised by His Apostles. ^ What is the Greek word for baptism? To whose Lexicon shall we iro, to Baptists? No, we will take the most vvorld- wide one, compiled by two eminent English Churchmen named Liddell & Scott. This is used in al the ^.^''^^^t Uni- versities and Colleges on both sides ot ^he Atlantic. Of this great work a new edition has been published, and in it we have BAPTIZO— To dip in or under water; to sink, to bathe, to baptize. ' BAPTISMOS— A dipping in water— baptism. BAPTISMA— Baptism. BAPTISTES— One that dips— a baptizer. But do not these great scholars give other meanings to Bap- tizo"^ They do not even hint the bare possibility ot any other, than that they give. But say you - Perhaps they were Z;^- vouring the Baptists in contining the meaning ot baptizo to dip- Tthink I see you smile, at the idea of Episcopal Clergy- men translating such a fundamental word as Baptizo into English, so as to help substantiate the practice of the Baptists. Those English Clergymen did not compile their renowned Lexicon as C/ergyjnen, but as Scholars, who tor the time being forgot all man's modern substitutes, and hon- estly and correctlv gave the Hn^lish word, that exactly re- presents the Greek original. And with them we may name b tH 7 Bap- [her, le fci- dip- into ■ the their hon- t\y re- name 40 lexicographers, who agree that Baptizo means ^^ to dip ill or under ivater.'''' These learned men are Sophocles, r3onnegan, Rost and Palm, Parkhursi, Stephanas, Robin- son, Wright, Schleusner, Dunbar, Leigh, Schrevelius, Sca- pula, l^ass, Suidas, Morel, Laing, Ilederic, Greenfield, Evv- ing, Jones, Sch(tttgen, T. S. Green, Suicer, Mintert, Pasor, Grove, Bretschneider, Stokius, Robertson, Passow, Schwar- zius, Alstedius, Pickering, Rouma, Gazes, Bagsler & Sons, Anthon, Grimm and Cremer. In the language of Moses Stuart (We may justly say; "'- ^ill critics and Icxicoc^raphers of any note arc oi^rccd in this.''') ( A Congregationalist, who was 41 years a professor in the Andover Theological Seminary). It is not necessary to sav that not one of the above scholars was a member of a Baptist church ; and yet they all frankly confess that only the Baptists (or those who immerse believ- ers) practise the Apostolic Baptism. And I think every one w^ill grant that the arguments I adduce to prove that Baptizo means only to dip, have additional strength, when I say, that in all this discussion I will not, as I have not, bring forward the oj:)inion of a single Baptist, but t,\ / ivill all be Pedo- Baptists. " Pedo " is from the Greek "Pais or Paida " and means "child." Now what is the Greek wo d for sprinkling} Liddell aryd Scott's Lexicon say. RAINO — To sprinkle, besprinkle. But do they not hint that by hard squeezing of that word, it could be made to read thus, "RAINO — To sprinkle sometimes, and to dip sometimes ?" No, again they translate this word not as Clergymen but as honest and exact scholars. Bui methinks I hear a pedo-baptist say, "But did not Christ use the word RAINO, wiien he gave the command to His Apostles to Baptize r" He never once used it in connec- tion with Baptism. If he had meant that baptism was to be a sprinkling ivith ivater. He would have used the word Raino, but He always used '■'' Bapto,^"" when speaking of that one of the only two ordinances, which He instituted for the obser- vance of His disciples. Let us next see what is the Greek word for pouring, a form 8 of bc4,,tism used by some Presbyterians. Liddell and Scott says CHEO. — To pour out. I think I hear an anxious Presbyterian say, "Do they not give another possible mean- ing, that may also mean to dlp^ so that if a minister potiy iva- ter, that act may be considered as an imuicrsion /" Not a word do they utter, that gives the faintest margin for such a suppo- sition. But did not Christ use the Greek word Cheo when he com- manded His Servants to Baptize ^ Not once in such a connec- tion. Now I have laid before you the three Gre^k words used to represent the three modes of Baptism as practised by the afore- named denominations. I ask you to decide which is the one Baptism of these three that Christ submitted to, as recorded by Matthew 3. 13-17, and which His Apostles practised? 1 ask you if the one Baptism that Christ submitted to, and which His Apostles practised, was the same mode as that practised by the Baptists to-day? To help you 1 will produce the de- cisions of men from the ranks of Pedo-baptists, whose learn- ing and authority are esteemed so great and world-wide, that no one thinks of questioning the accuracy ot their statements. Dr. Mosheim, the great Lutheran Scholar and Historian, w^o was Chancellor of the Pedo-baptist University of Gottin- gen, says in his "Church History." First Century. "The sacrament of Baptism was administered in this century, with- out the public assemblies, in places appointed and prepared for that purpose, and was performed by an immersion of the whole body in the baptismal font." Of baptism in the 2nd cen- tury he says " The persons that were to be baptized, after they had repeated the creed, confessed and renounced their sins, and particularly the devil and his pompous allurements, were immersed wider water^ and received into Christ's king- dom." Dr. Neander, for 38 years a professor of Theology in the University of BerHn, also wrote a "Church History," and in it he says, "In respect to the form of baptism, it was, in conformity with the original institution and the original im- port of the symbol, performed by immersion^ as a sign of entire baptism into the Holy Spirit, of being entirely penetrated by le ^c\ 1 seA c\e- • The a, ••^^^^.^ r^- and \« TeU-ated ^> the same/' And in his '* History of the platitinj^ and train- ing ot" the Cliurch," he says, '* Baptism tiuis orii^ituillY admin- istered by iifiuiersion, and many ot thv comparisons of Paul al- lude to this torm of administration." Now let us hear what the greatest American Ecclesiastical Historian says on this point. Dr. Phillip Schall', who has been a Professor in the Union Theological Seminary, New York, nearly 20 years, is a Presbyterian, and is regarded as of undoubted authority on the practices of the Primitive Church. In his " History of the Apostolic Church," he says, ininier- sioii, and 7iot ipriii/Jiii^ was nuqiicstionably the original normal form. This is shown by the very meaning of the Greek words Baptizo^ llaptisnui^ and the analogy of tlie baptism of John, which was performed ///the Jordan (r//;, Matt. 3. 6. ; compare with 16: also '" eis to yordanen^"' (into the Jordan), Mark'i, 9. Furthermore by the New Testament comparisons of Bap- tism, with the passage through the Red Sea, (i. Cor. 10. 2.); with the Flood, (i Peter, 3. 21 )\ with a Bath, (Ephjs 5. 26., Titus. 3. 5.;; with a buri.d and resurrection, (Rom, 6. 4. Col, 2. 12."); and linally, by the general usage of ecclesiastical antiquity, zvliicli ivas always immersion \ as it is to this day in the Oriental, and also in the Grreco-Russian. Pouring and Sprinkling being substituted only in cases of urgent necessity, such as sickness and approaching death." The next man of Scholarly acquirement I bring lorth shall be Dr. Wall, who was in his day the most noted Episcopal Historian on this subject, in the Mother-Land. In his '"His- tory of Infant Baptism," he says " This {immersion^) is so plain and clear by an infinite number of passages, that one can- not but pity the weak endeavours of such Pedo-baptists as would maintain the negative of it. So we ought to disown and show a dislike of the profane scorts, which some people give to the English anti-pedo-baptists (\. E. the Baptists, y) merely for the use of dipping, when it was, in all probability, the way by which our blessed Saviour, and for certain was the most usual and ordinar}' way by which the ancient christians, did receive their baptism. It is a great w^ant of prudence, as well as of honesty, to refuse to grant to an adver- sary what is certainly true, and may be proved so. It creates a jealousy of all the rest that one says. The custom of the \ 10 christians in the near succeeding times (to the Apostles), heing more hirgeJ}', and particuhirly delivered in books, is knoivii to liavc been generally or ordinarily a total immersion. " In Stackhouse's " History ot' the l^ible/' he says "• We no- where read in the Scripture of any one being baptized but by immersion : and several authors have proved, from the acts of Councils and ancient rituals, that this manner of immersion continued as much as possible, to be used for 1300 years after Christ." Dr. Kurtz, a Professor in the University of Dorpat. in his "•Church IIii;tory," says of the Apostolic times, ^'-Baptism was administered by complete Immersion. " Profes':or Au<>["usti, of the Universitv of Bonn, in his " Ar- cha'ology" says, "^ Ivtmersun in Zi'ater wi\s general until' the T^th century among the Latins. U was then displaced by sprinkling, but retained by the Greeks."' Ot all the authorities I have quoted, not one is a l^aptist. And if they are not encigh. 1 can furnish you with as many more. All these men wrote their learned books on this sub- ject at ditferent times, and son)e were thousands of miles apart. Some are dead, some are living, and \ et they all at- tirm the same thing, concerning the meaning of the origiunl word used in the New Testament ibr this ordinance : and they all declare that the mode of tlirist's I'apiisnu and which the Apostles praetised was Immersii )/. Therefore with such incontrovertible testimonv, and sucli overwhelming evidence given bv the ripest Scholars the w^orld has ever seen, that there is onlv cne meaning of the ori- ginal word used by our Lord to designate Baptism; and that only cne mode can correctly and fully set forth that one mean- ing, we the Baptized Believers of the Regular l^aptist churches of Canada and the United States, sav to all profess- ing christians who have been onlv sprinkled or ponred -YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN BAPTIZED."' And therefore we do not invite you to the Lord's Table. Do not be so unjust as to charge us with being narrow-minded., tor this decision is not atiected bv narrowness of mind, or largeness of heart, but. it is the result of right and truth. — Your ozvn great scholars most emphaticallv dcelare that yon ara not baptized when you are sprinkled or poured: and we sim- V 11 II "V ph- />/// into practice their oivu words. It is they who turnish us With the reason that prevents us Irom askinir you lo sit down at the Lord's Table. When ail the great Lexicons say ba/yfo uxiiixn^ sprinklin<^r ; when all the great church historians say that the Lord Jesus was sprinkled by John, and that that was the mcde practised, by the Apostles; when you can bring us a sincrle example from the New Testament of ^ baby being chris- teiied, THEN AM) NOT TILL TIIKX CAN W^E, MAY W^E INVITE YOU,' WHO HAVE BEEN ONEY SPRINKLED, TO Till- LORD's SUP- PER. But the eighteen hundred years of Scholarly studies and historical researches by great men, oiler you not the least encouragement to hope that you will ever be able to do these three hard things. If ever you sit down with those who form pnrt of the three millions of members of the Regu- lar Baptist Denomination of this Continent you will have to be as honest as Deacon Ilaydn, of'Eastport, Maine. He was a member of the Congregational church in that town. IIis daughter Ruth was brought into peace through faith in Jesus. She^became very thoughtful and desired to unite with the church. One dav she said to her Father. *'Pa, will you please take thcBible and mark with your pencil all the verses where Infant Sprinkling occurs ?"* With considerable feeling and vet with great frankness he answered. " Ruthie, they can not' be found between the lids of the J^ible." She was immersed and joined the Baptist Church and in less than a vear her Father, too, was immersed and joined the same Church. We are despised bv pedo-baptists* as close-communionists, but in renlitv thev despise us for being loyal to the Word of God. We are called narrow-mitided for not inviting others to the Table of the Lord; but the truth is that unseemly epi- thet is ascribed to us, because we will not encourage others to disobey the commands of the Lord. We are reproached as sitting in judgment on our pedo-baptists friends consci- ences; but tlie fact is, we simply observe the Order of the First^ Netv Testament Church, as recorded in the second chapter of "the Acts of the Apostles." "Then thev that gladly rueived his word, were baptized'. and the same' day th^ere vvere added unto them about three 12 thousand souls. And they continued steadfastly in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers." 1st Faith. 2nd Baptism. 3rd Communion. MINISTERS RECEIVED FROM OTHER DEXOMIXATIOXS INTO PHE JUPTIST DENOMINATION 1H87. Universalist , Methodist. Methodist. A(tveiitist. (^o., Miss., ., Pi'Miitive Methodist. Baptist Con^refrationalist Babbitt, Geo. F., Maiden, Mass Baird. Z. D., Westerlo, N. Y, Bathurst. K. A., Everett, Mo., Rowers, Leslie. Union, Mich. Breckenridg-e, Robt., Neshoba Crow, (Chapman, llartfortl, Ky Dobson. J. A., Rocldord, III., Dugdalc, Wni., Fall River, .Mass . Christian. Feather, N., Ontario, Wis., Cono-regationalist. Gowan, L. \V., Evansville, Wis., Free Will Baptist Gregory, A., Cazenovia, 111.. Winebrennarlan?.'. Hall, Daniel H., Seaville, N. J., Methodist. Jewell. Leonard, Leesville, N. (.'., Metliodist. Johnson, Wayland, Washington, 111., Disciples. Lathrop, C. C., Bloomingdale, N. J., Presbvteriaa. l^awrence. A., East Nassau, N. Y.. .Methodist. Lee, Clay, New Albany Ind., .Methodist. McNamee, J. F., Brooklyn, N. Y., Roman Catholic. Mitchell, .las., Archie. Mo , Methodist. Mo.seley, .John A.. Waldo, Fla., Methodist. Norvel, John S., Emerson, lo., Methodist. Owen, Thos , Conklin, N. Y., Methodist, Scott, John, Moosup, Conn., Congre'rationalist. Watt, H. Sterlinff, Phila., Pa., Methodist.