BAPTIST MANUAL: A SELECTION FROM THE SERIES OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY, DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF FAMILIES; AND AS AN EXPOSITION OF THE DISTINGUISHING SENTIMENTS OF THE DENOMINATION. "I praise you that ye-keep the ordinances as I delivered them THE object of the Board of Managers of the American Baptist Publication Society, in sending forth the following selection from the Series of its publications, is three-fold. They wish to engage, more widely, the attention of their brethren in the United States to the Society, and to awaken an interest in its behalf, by diffusing a knowledge of the character of its publications; to furnish to members of Baptist Churches, and to Baptist families, a volume of convenient size, which shall be profitable for doctrine, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness;-a volume which, with the Divine blessing, may promote their growth in Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; and to furnish to those who may be seeking information respecting our views and practices as a denomination, the means of acquaintance with those views and practices, and with the grounds on which they rest. Agreeing with the great body of evangelical Christians of other denominations, in the fundamental principles of doctrinal belief, the Baptists yet differ from many of them in their views of Church order; and in one important respect, that of Christian Baptism-they differ from them all. With every other protestant denomination they take their stand against the corruptions of the church of Rome, but considering Infant Baptism, both in the subject and the mode, as it is practised, to be one of those corruptions, |
