persuade myself that any sensible man will repeat it; if he do, and comes in my way, I may perhaps bestow a few lines to show its futility. My demand for the production of a single case in which it is shown that sprinkling is the radical idea of ẞáπTM, and of a single instance of sprinkling in the New Testament, or of a single command, inculcating the practice, accompanied by the assurance of concession in such a case, and concluded by the question, "Will Mr. Ewing or any of his brethren venture to give me a similar pledge ?"-is met by the declaration, "Yes, we will." Reluctant, however, to try the metal of his sword, the dextrous combatant immediately retreats, exclaiming, as he flies, "Let Mr. Cox produce one single instance of such baptism as he practices, the adult descendants of believers, either from Scripture or any ecclesiastical history, or a single case in the New Testament of immersion baptism, and we concede him the victory." I answer, the baptism I practice is the baptism of adults, irrespectively of the question whether they are or are not the descendants of believers; and to this baptism I am directed by every precept and precedent of the New Testament. Not only, again, is "immersion baptism" mentioned in a single case; there is no other described in the New Testament, as I have largely shown from the word itself; the places where baptism was practised, the nature of the proceeding, and all the direct and incidental allusions. But "from Scripture or ecclesiastical history I cannot produce an example of the baptism of the adult descendents of believers, or if I do the victory shall be conceded!" Take then the following:-Ambrose was born of Christian parents, was instructed in Christian principles, and not baptized till he was chosen Bishop of Milan. Jerome, born of Christian parents, was thirty years of age when he was baptized. Augustine was of full age when he was baptized. Gregory Nazianzen, who was born of Christian parents in 318, and his father, a bishop, was not baptized till about thirty years old. Chrysostom, born of Christian parents in 347, had attained nearly twenty-one years of age when he was baptized. Your Reviewer 1 take to be a man of veracity; will he then fulfil his pledge, his solemn pledge, and "concede to me the VICTORY?"‡ This may be taken as a brief hint to anonymous opponent: if Cox's book! It is well to be witty a little when we can, though in ever so small a way. It makes the Baptist argument for immersion, from that case, truly "ridiculous" And it stands yet wholly unanswered; and we hold it unanswerable, though several zealous pens have already essayed to solve the dilemma. Baptists must accept of one side or other, or else give up their usual argument upon the going down into, and the coming up out of. Mr. Cox turns his back upon it scornfully; others have perverted it. But there it stands; let them face it manfully, and answer it fairly. + Mr. Cox has here, apparently, a very palpable hit, but unfortunately it falls not upon the poor Reviewer, who has verily been bit about quite enough—it falls upon ns Editors. In the first place the words" any ecclesiastical history" were not written by the Reviewer, but" early ecclesiastical history,” and the error of the press was corrected in the Errata of our November Number, before Mr. Cox's reply was forwarded. But he is not to blame for taking the word as it stood. What he has written here then is wholly irrelevant, and the Reviewer's challenge remains, not retorted as Mr. C. thinks, but as he asked, "Will Mr. Ewing or any of his brethren give me a similar pledge?" Yes; there it is yet unmet, not by the Reviewer; he is not bound to it, but Mr. C. is by his own question. Mr. C. represents the Reviewer as retreating, but it is himself that draws back. Mr. C. must take notice that we do not hold it necessary to give a single command for infant baptism; we do not feel bound to produce a single instance of sprinkling; we believe with Mr. Ewing in pouring, as most do, from the palm of the hand, and we should be sorry to bind ourselves to produce a positive command, for we could not do that for female communion, we could not do it for the observance of the Sabbath, we could not do it for the Lord's Supper itself, nor for ordination of ministers, nor for several other things, in the obligation of all of which we firmly believe, but then it is by inferential reasoning. Of course our Baptist brethren find positive commands for all these things; and when they have sufficiently digested them, they will add to the science of theology by divulging these important discoveries, or else they will grow consistent, which they have never yet been, and cease to demand precept in direct terms for infant baptism. Now, not only are all the cases irrelevant, for the reason we have stated above, they are not anterior to the rise of Antipedobaptism and Tertullian, but they are not accurately stated. Ambrose :-there is no evidence that his parents were Christians when he was born. Jerome :-there is no proof to the contrary that he was not baptized in infancy. Augustine-his father was a heathen when he was born. Nazianzen was not baptized in infancy, though probably bora of Christians. The conduct of his father, himself a bishop, was singular; and what is deserving of Mr. C.'s notice, not imitated by his son Mr. Ewing, or Dr. Wardlaw, or any man with a name, choose to accept my proposal, I shall know how to proceed more in detail. As there is no reasoning in the next paragraph, abont the final burial, I shall, at present, hold my attempted confutation of Mr. Ewing to be unrefuted,* Here I feel thoroughly disposed to close my examination of the review; having omitted to notice two or three passages, because of their irrelevancy, and one or two others, because of their insulting violence of attack upon the denomination I represent. In humble imitation, however, of the Reviewer's tactics, in leaping from the first page to the last of my book, I shall, for a moment, leap back from the last to the first of his review, just to notice, in conclusion, a most extraordinary paragraph. "We heard of a popular Baptist minister, who lately made the very same assertion from the pulpit-the argument ours-the popular feeling theirs. Whether he borrowed it from Mr. C.'s newly published volume we cannot say, but when, after the service, this all-the-argument-man was called upon by a Pædobaptist minister, who was present, for a vindication of his brag, he was constrained to feel that he had much less than he imagined, to confess that he had not been aware how much argument there was on the other side, and to promise a closer attention to the subject in future." These are pretty tales for the amusement of children, and I am sorry that your Reviewer should have thought so meanly of his Pædobaptist friends as to suppose they would be amused by such a story-a story which carries suspicion on the very face of it. We heard;-and so you will calumniate an individual or a body upon report-some gossip's misrepresentation! A popular Baptist minister constrained to feel, and to confess, and to promise, and so forth-at the first onset! What-strike at once on the first summons ! Is it credible? Is it possible? "Weak" as some of us may be, I think our popular Baptist ministers are not weak enough for this! I know not how to believe it; and have no right to do so without some tangible evidence. An anonymous statement of an anonymous occurrence may serve the purpose of slander, but will never carry with it the force of truth. "This," it is however added, “is not a solitary case within our own knowledge." I am certainly sur- prised-I dare not severely retort, but unless names and places are produced, I am a sceptic still. I am, Gentlemen, Yours very truly, F. A. Cox. Hackney, November 8, 1824. of whom Mr. C. here speaks-for though himself was not baptized in infancy, yet he was a Padobaptist. Chrysostom:-his parents were probably heathen at the time of his birth. This statement might be substantiated at length. But non est tanti. The Reviewer's challenge to Mr. C., asked for by himself, he has not met, Unrefuted!! when the Reviewer has shown the truth of Mr. E's assertion, that Christ was not finally buried, by an appeal to the Evangelists, as well as to Mr. Cox's own citation, in which burial is proved to be the sprinkling of earth, and yet Mr. Cox says, "There is no reasoning." Reader look to p. 540, and then observe there is no reasoning, at least none of that sort of reasoning of which you have had so many specimens from Mr. C. True, there is none.-This is an admirable method of answering objections. + This is grossly "insulting;" especially when Mr. Cox had himself told stories in the former part of his reply, without names, which he wished to have believed. No, Mr. C., we are not in the habit of inserting falsehoods. We have ascertained the facts which the Reviewer affirmed. And surely a regular periodical, the conductors of which are not unknown in their own connexion, (and as Mr. Cox intimates, not so to him) docs not stand in the situation of an anonymous opponent. Certain characters are pledged; the character and respectability of the work are pledged to the truth of whatever statement appears under the name of the Editors. And whatever suspicion Mr. C. would gladly cast upon the attestation of our Reviewer, we shall cast none upon his, for we still believe him to be a man of veracity, of amiable temper, a gentleman, and a Christian; and as such we take our leave of him for the present, in perfect good humour, and, we hope too, in the excercise of Christian charity--and, he will excuse us for adding also, in the exercises of Christian forgiveness, for the many ungracious epithets and illiberal insinuations contained in his animadversions. LITERARY NOTICES. 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