Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... ROBERT HALL. 411 invalid if they admitted the sufficiency of every man's own opinion in the matter. Morally the prejudices of education may make it some excuse for not heing baptized, but can not alter the fact; and the question to be discussed is, whether unbaptized persons, if regenerated, are entitled to unite with Baptist Churches in this ordinance, and as members. Mr. Noel states this point with clearness: "I believe each person who has been merely sprinkled in infancy is unbaptized, because the external act of baptism is immersion, and that act is meant to be a profession of repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. The person sprinkled in infancy has neither been immersed, nor has he made through his reception of the sprinkled water any profession whatever of discipleship; he is, therefore, wholly unbaptized." He then proceeds to "advocate the right of such persons to a place at the Lord's table, in Baptist Churches." Though how it could remain a Baptist Church if every unbaptized believer had equally a "right" there, he does not explain. Robert Hall had the consistency to give this point up, and admit that his system would destroy all denomination. APPENDIX F. Page 361. BOBEBT HALL ON THE AMERICAN WAB. "One evening our conversation turned on the subject of the war with America, previously to the acknowledgment of the independence of the United States. Mr. Hall said, 1 Sir, that war was very unpopular, and considered to be very unrighteous, by men of true liberty principles. My father, sir, warmly advocated the American cause. When I was a little boy, he took me to the school of Mr. Ryland, at Northampton, the father of Dr. Ryland of Bristol. This Mr. Ryland was very eccentric, and a violent partisan of the Americans. It was...
