James A. Kirtley

The Design of Baptism Viewed in Its Doctrinal Relations James A. Kirtley

An earnest and careful inquiry into the subject of the following treatise was undertaken by the author some years ago, chiefly with the view to inform his own mind and to fit himself the better to instruct those to whom he ministered, and especially those persons who, by the grace of God, were led to profess Christ in connection with his ministry. He was greatly surprised to find that, while tomes and epitomes had been written upon the mode and subjects of baptism, so far as he could ascertain from the sources of information within his reach little else had appeared upon the scriptural object of the ordinance than a mere incidental allusion to it, a brief comment upon some passage of Scripture, or an occasional fugitive newspaper article on some disputed passage connected with the subject. Those portions of the word of God relating to the doctrinal import and scriptural design of the ordinance, he recognized as a part of the all Scripture given by inspiration, and which were profitable to the man of God. Surely, it was not forbidden ground ;but most certainly it seemed to be an unexplored part of the domain of theological truth.
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