ON INFANT BAPTISM, AND SOME POPULAR OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE CHURCH OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. BY CHARLES JERRAM, A. M. VICAR OF CHOBHAM, SURREY. Omnes enim venit per semetipsum salvare: omnes, inquam, qui LONDON PRINTED. RE-PUBLISHED BY R. P. AND C. WILLIAMS, AND BY HILL AND MOORE, CONCORD, N. H, 1820. ADVERTISEMENT. THE following Conversations were drawn up with a particular reference to the conscientious scruples of plain Christians, who have neither opportunity nor leisure for reading more elaborate works on the subjects here discussed. The Author is aware of the objections which lie against this mode of conducting controversy and if he had been writing for a different class of readers, he would certainly have adopted another style of composition. but knowing the extreme difficulty with which common Christians enter into abstract and didactic modes of reasoning, he considered that his work would be useless to the very persons for whom he intended it, if he did not divest his arguments, as much as possible, of every thing repulsive, and exhibit the whole in a plain and easy point of view: and no method of accomplishing this object appeared so promising as the familiarity of dialogue. This seems to present the subject to the eye, as well as to the ear, and excites the attention by the interest it occasions in the issue of the discourse. Even the repetitions, which conversation necessarily requires, are of advantage in fixing the subject on the mind and memory; and the exercise of thought, which is requisite to furnish an answer to colloquial questions, keeps up the attention, and deepens the impression. |