Transcribed from the 1865 Hatchard & Co. edition by David Price, email
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BAPTISM
AS TAUGHT IN
The Bible and the Prayer Book.
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BY
EDWARD HOARE, M.A.,
INCUMBENT OF TRINITY CHURCH, TUNBRIDGE WELLS.
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“_Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts_; _and be ready always to give
an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is
in you_, _with meekness and fear_; _having a good conscience_.”—1
Peter iii. 15, 16.
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SIXTH EDITION.
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LONDON: HATCHARD & CO., 187, PICCADILLY, W.
Booksellers to H.R.H. the Princess of Wales.
1865.
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BAPTISM
AS TAUGHT IN
THE BIBLE AND THE PRAYER BOOK.
BY
EDWARD HOARE, M.A.,
INCUMBENT OF TRINITY CHURCH, TUNBRIDGE WELLS.
FEW subjects have occasioned greater controversy than that of baptism,
and few have been discussed with greater eagerness. The baptismal
service of the Church of England has been a stumbling-block to many
without her pale, and been made the basis of the extreme views
entertained by many of those within. Some have thought it unscriptural,
and have resolved in consequence upon separation from our Church; while
others have regarded it as containing the Church’s principles more
distinctly than the Articles, and have founded upon it the doctrine of
spiritual regeneration as invariably connected with the sacrament. The
object of the present tract is to compare the Prayer Book with the Bible:
in doing which it will be needless to attempt any statement of the
various opinions expressed upon the subject; our simpler and safer course
will be to turn at once to the books themselves.