ON CHRISTIAN BAPTISM, WITH THE HISTORY OF WATER BAPTISM, TO THE HONOURABLE BAPTIST W. NOEL. BY KESEPH. LONDON: H. G. COLLINS, 22, PATERNOSTER ROW. TO THE HONOURABLE BAPTIST NOEL, THIS Tract is addressed to stir up his mind to the important inquiry, whether Christians "circumcised without hands," are not baptised without water? Search and compare the Scriptures, Col. ii. 11; Eph. iv. 5; 1 Cor. xii. 13; and be not carried about with diverse and strange doctrines, for "it is a good thing for the heart to be established with grace" (Heb. xiii. 9). KESEPH. London, 1849. THE HISTORY OF WATER BAPTISM, AFTER THE ASCENSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. THERE are and have been customs observed in the Church without any express command from Christ, her only Head and Lord. For instance, there are to this day godly persons who keep days unto the Lord; not that they believe one day to be more holy than another, but as our Lord kept the feast of the dedication of the temple, which the Jews had appointed to commemorate its reparation, and their deliverance from the tyranny of Antiochus (John x. 22; Rom. xiv. 5, 6). And they celebrate their marriages in a solemn manner, since our Lord honoured with His presence the celebration of marriage; and on that occasion wrought the first miracle in the days of His flesh (John ii. 1-11). All men taught of God know it to be their privilege to acknowledge every mercy, and to bless the Lord publicly, as godly women do, for their safe deliverance in child-bearing; for we are to give public thanks always for all things unto God and the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (Eph. v. 19, 20). But in the history of the Church, we find water-baptism has been ob |