Excerpt from A Treatise on the Mode of Baptism: Showing the Unfounded Nature of the Assumption, That Immersion Is the Only Proper Mode of Administering the Ordinance, and That Pouring or Sprinkling, Is the Most Scriptural and Significant, and by Far the Preferable Mode of Its AdministrationIn the days of the apostles too, the churches of Christ-were distracted, by the teachings of those who were bent on imposing upon chris tians, 'the observance of the whole Jewish ritu al; and who took the high ground, that those Observances were absolutely necessary to sal vation; Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses ye cannot be saved.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.