place, by representing the obligation, piously to educate children, as so much the end of baptism, as almost to reduce to nothing the general obligation to that duty; and then by turning the baptism of the parents into no baptism, by the doctrine of virtual expulsion, they in effect say to them, your obligations are at an end. The end of baptism is to secure the pious education of the children. of the church; we will not own your children as belonging to the church; nor will we own your baptism, which binds you to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. If there be much promise of good to the church, or to the children, either on the philosophy or theology of this system, we humbly own that there is too much of a penumbra about our senses to admit of our perceiving it. The same mist envelopes us, in regard to the effect upon the parent's sense of religious obligations in general, from the church's heaving him, and his, so far from her maternal bosom. If instances can be named, in which this course of dealing has given rise to exercises

of mind, that have terminated in piety; similar references can be made to anxious-seats and dreams, to hobgoblins and to thunder. Leaving the hidden virtues of this system to those who can draw them out, and apply them to spiritual ends, we must be content with the more common-place doctrine, of holding the parents to their duty, and by all the motives we can draw from the justice and the grace of God, bind them to the obligations of the everlasting covenant.

If the reasonings of this essay be correct, then it is proper to baptize the children of all parents, who have been baptized; and who had not, at the birth of the children, been excluded from the church by regular and formal discipline.

JOHN MOFFET,

BOOKSELLER,

No. 112, Canal-street,

Near Laurens-street,

NEW YORK,

KEEPS CONSTANTLY ON HAND AN ASSORTMENT OF

JUVENILE, CLASSICAL,

AND

MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS.

HE HAS CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED HIS

THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

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The following are some of the more prominent Standard Works:

SCOTT AND HENRY'S COMMENTARY,

DR. WATTS' COMPLETE WORKS,

STUDENT'S BIBLE, Greek and English.

JAHN'S ARCHEOLOGY,

HEBREW BIBLES,

STACKHOUSE'S HISTORY OF THE BIBLE,

BLOOMFIELD'S GREEK TESTAMENT,

HORNE'S INTRODUCTION,

LOWTH ON ISAIAH,

HANNAH MORE'S WORKS,

DICK'S THEOLOGY,

CALVIN AND HODGE ON ROMANS,

CRUDEN'S CONCORDANCE,

GILLIES ON NEW TESTAMENT,

JAY'S WORKS,

HALL'S WORKS,

PALEY'S WORKS, in six volumes.

HERVEY'S WORKS,

BUCK'S WORKS,