[Footnote B: Romans 6: 3, 4, 5.]
[Footnote C: Eusebius Eccl. Hist., Book vi: Ch. 43. See also Cyprian's Epistles, Letter 76.]
[Footnote D: Schaff, an eminent Swiss theologian.]
[Footnote E: Mosheim's Eccl. Hist., vol. I, page 120. Bossuet, a celebrated French Bishop. Bishop Jeremy Taylor. Robinson, the great Biblical scholar and philologist. Calvin. John Wesley.]
[Footnote F: Romans 6: 3, 4, 5.]
[Footnote G: John 3: 5.]
[Footnote H: Mosheim's Church History, 3rd Ed., vol. I, pp. 87 and 137.]
[Footnote I: Mark 1: 4. Luke 3: 3. Acts 12: 16.]
[Footnote J: Acts 2: 38.]
This leads me to the question of infant baptism. Dr. Neander, a great German scholar, tells us that Christ did not ordain infant baptism, and that not till so late a period as Irenaeus does any trace of infant baptism appear. This was in the third century. Curcellaeus writes that baptism of infants in the first two centuries after Christ was altogether unknown. Bishop Jeremy Taylor says, "Christ blessed infants and so dismissed them, but baptized them not, therefore infants are not to be baptized." Martin Luther says, "It cannot be proved by the sacred scriptures that infant baptism was instituted by Christ, or begun by the first Christians after the Apostles." Tertullian, one of the Latin Fathers, wrote, "Let them therefore come when they are grown up, when they can understand, when they are taught whither they are to come. Let them become Christians when they can know Christ. Why should this innocent age hasten to the remission of sins? * * * * If persons understood the importance of baptism they will rather fear the consequent obligation than the delay."