Excerpt from Discourses on the Mode and Subjects of Christian Baptism, or an Attempt to Shew That Pouring or Sprinkling Is a Scriptural Mode, and the Infants of Believers Are Proper Subjects of the Baptism Instituted by Christ: With an Examination of Various Objections, Particularly Those Contained in a Course of Anonymous Letters to Bishop Hoadly They tell us, You baptize your children, and yet treat them no Otherwise than you would real heathen children. You say, they are within God's covenant, and conse quently members of his church, and yet your churches exercise no Watch and discipline over them, even after their age renders them capable subjects.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.