covenant and baptism SAMPLE

ORIGINAL
INTRODUCTION
In the following pages the writer has
endeavored to state the Scripture doctrine
respecting Baptism. He has seen cause to
change his views of this ordinance, and has
here given his reasons for his present practice.
We are naturally inclined to speak of
ourselves, and fondly imagine, that whatever
respects us will excite attention. Experience
tends to correct this notion, and to make us
sensible that our history is less interesting to
others than we are apt to suppose. But without
forgetting this, or being justly chargeable with
intruding ourselves on the public notice, we
may sometimes be justified in referring to what
has passed in our own minds; for as in water
face answereth to face, so the heart of man to
man. As the writer of these pages not only
practiced for a considerable time what he now
sees to be unscriptural, but also wrote in
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