SERMONS,

ON THE

MODE AND SUBJECTS

ОБ

Christian Baptism,

OR

An attempt to fhew that POURING or SPRINKLING
is a SCRIPTURAL MODE; and the INFANTS of
BELIEVERS are PROPER SUBJECTS of the
BAPTISM inftituted by CHRIST :

WITH AN

EXAMINATION OF VARIOUS OBJECTIONS,

Particularly those contained in a Courfe of Anon-
ymous Letters to Bishop Hoadly.

By JOSEPH LATHROP, D. D.
Paftor of the First Church in Weft-Springfield.

THE THIRD EDITION.

PRINTED AT NORTHAMPTON, BY WILLIAM BUTLER,

(For the Hampshire Miffionary Society.)

1803.

To perfuade the Ephefians to keep the unity of the fpirit in the bond of peace, the Apoftle urges this, among other arguments, that they had received one Baptifm. If this one Baptifm was defigned to be a bond of peace and unity among christians, how unhappy it is, that it fhould become an occafion of divifion and feparation ? Some will fay, It is not one baptifm, but different baptifms that caufe divifions. It is true, baptifm is administered in different modes, and to different fubjects; but still, I hope, it will appear to be one baptifm; and if fo, then this difference is no just reason for difunion.

You are fenfible, my brethren, that I have not been wont to bring controverfies into the pulpit. I have purposely avoided the controverfy concerning baptifm in years paft, and should

have