Author: Isaac Backus

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781230416717

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...in their infancy, you and they jointly renounce that Father, Son and Holy Ghost, whom we adore and worship as the only living and true God, and on whom we depend for all our salvation/'1 And what greater evil can any men be accused of in this wrorld For they who secretly enticed any away from the service of the true God, were to die without mercy. Deut. xiii. 6--11. But they who were sprinkled in infancy answered no conscience towards God at all, neither did it produce any change in them, as all experience who have any right to baptism. For all who have a right to that ordinance, are first made dead to sin, and alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Rom. vi. 2--11. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. Gal. iii. 27. And this is done by the obedience of faith, and in no other way; and in vain do any accuse such of renouncing the only living and true God. But having such teaching from their ministers, a new law-book was published in Connecticut, in 1784, wherein, by one law, they gave all the societies that were before constituted, all their meeting-houses and ministerial lands, with power to support their ministers by tax An Address to his Anabaptist brethren; By Joseph Huntington, DD. 1783, p. 23. and compulsion. And then they made another law, as follows: --An act for securing the rights of conscience in matters of religion, to Christians of every denomination in this State. As the happiness of a people, and the good order of civil society, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality, it is the duty of the..