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The Covenant <strong>and</strong> Baptism<br />
very suspicious circumstance. Had it been<br />
h<strong>and</strong>ed down from the apostles, there would<br />
have been no need of the authority of a council<br />
to enact its observance; but this was the<br />
common way of introducing any unscriptural<br />
practice.<br />
It is said, that there is no accounting for it<br />
becoming so universal, had it been an<br />
innovation; that at least we must have read of<br />
much opposition to it. But how were many<br />
other corruptions silently introduced so early?<br />
How came so many idle ceremonies to be<br />
adopted, such as tasting milk <strong>and</strong> honey on<br />
coming out of the water, anointing with<br />
ointment, &c? How came bishops so soon to<br />
obtain so great power? And how came infant<br />
participation of the Lord’s supper to be<br />
introduced? Cyprian mentions this as expressly<br />
as he does infant <strong>baptism</strong>, <strong>and</strong> to this day it is<br />
practiced in the Greek church.<br />
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