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THE EVILS OF INFANT BAPTISM
By Robert Boyt C. Howell
Author of
The Terms of Communion at the Lord?s Table and The Deaconship
Charleston, SC: Southern Baptist Publication Society, 1852
TO THE SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH,
AND CONGREGATION IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY THEIR DEVOTED AND OBLIGED PASTOR
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
1
Infant baptism is an evil because its practice is unsupported by the word of God
CHAPTER
2
Infant baptism is an evil because its defense leads to most injurious
perversions of Scripture
CHAPTER
3
Infant baptism is an evil because it engrafts Judaism upon the gospel of Christ
CHAPTER
4
Infant baptism is an evil because it falsifies the doctrine of universal
depravity
CHAPTER
5
Infant baptism is an evil because the doctrines upon which it is predicated
contradict the great fundamental principle of justification by faith
CHAPTER
6
Infant baptism is an evil because it is in direct conflict with the doctrine of
the work of the Holy Spirit in regeneration
CHAPTER
7
Infant baptism is an evil because it despoils the church of those peculiar
qualities which are essential to the church of Christ
CHAPTER
8
Infant baptism is an evil because its practice perpetuates the superstitions
that originally produced it
CHAPTER
9
Infant baptism is an evil because it subverts the scripture doctrine of infant
salvation
CHAPTER
10
Infant baptism is an evil because it leads its advocates into rebellion against
the authority of Christ
CHAPTER
11
Infant baptism is an evil because of the connection it assumes with the moral
and religious training of children
CHAPTER
12
Infant baptism is an evil because it is the grand foundation upon which rests
the union of church and state
CHAPTER
13
Infant baptism is an evil because it leads to religious persecutions
CHAPTER
14
Infant baptism is an evil because it is contrary to the principles of civil and
religious freedom
CHAPTER
15
Infant baptism is an evil because it enfeebles the power of the church to combat
error
CHAPTER
16
Infant baptism is an evil because it injures the credit of religion with
reflecting men of the world
CHAPTER
17
Infant baptism is an evil because it is the great barrier to Christian union
CHAPTER
18
Infant baptism is an evil because it prevents the salutary impression which
baptism was designed to make upon the minds both of those who receive it, and of
those who witness its administration
CHAPTER
19
Infant baptism is an evil because it retards the designs of Christ in the
conversion of the world
CHAPTER
20
Recapitulation, with concluding addresses
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