Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-11-16

gument by sprinkling on it the
golden sands of Bible truth. Peace
to its ashes!
In dealing with the baptism Of
Saul, Bro. Williams begs the ques.
ton by assuming the point in con.
troversy that "baptizo" means tc
immerse. 1t is the same with the
Philippian jailer. 1 have heard of 6
man who spent all his life studying
the Greek verb, and when dying
said he wished he had given all his
time to the dative case. Bro. VIII
liams and those of like faith have
given all their attention to INNER.
sion and In an imaginative" case
You will observe that Bro. Viii.
liams in speaking of Acts Ills
where Peter says ''the Holy Ghost
'fell' on them as it did on us in the
beginning" says that was case o1
immersion as it filled the room.
call his attention to the manner"
of its coming, "fell" on them.
Peter was in the room and it did moi
"fall on" or lmmerse him. See
how the brother wobbles.
Bro. Williams in dealing with
Rom. Ga, 'Buried with him by
baptism into death, quotes sundry
Episcopalians, Presbyterians and
Methodists to prove that they be-
lieved it to set forth immersion as g
mode. l will give MIR. Clark on this
Rom. GA and you will see he was
not welded to his opinion of it, re.
ferring to immersion; 81 say it is
probable that the Apostle alludes te
this mode of immersion; but it is
not absolutely certain that he does
SO, as some do imagine; for, in the
next verse our being incorporated
into Christ by baptism is also de-
noted by our being planted or rather
grated together in the likeness ol
His death, and Noah's Ark floating
upon the water and sprinkled by
the rain from heaven is a figure cor
responding to baptism, (1st Peter
500 21) but neither of these gives
us the same idea of the outward
form as burying. We must be care
full therefore, not to lay too much
stress on such circumstances. "
Anyone can see that Bro. Williams
quotation was unjust to Mr.. Clark.
[ doubt not all the rest are of a SIM
liar sort. Over against this Iwould
place Mr.. Stewart, Hodge and Beza,
eminent immersionists, who say in
their commentaries they do not be-
lieve it has any reference to water
baptism. How does Bro. Williams
like his own medicine?
As for Mr.. Wesley (long since
dead and never inspired) Bro.
Williams does not know that all
these baptismal regeneration ideas
with which he is charged, are the
writing of Samuel Wesley, his faith.
er, and were incorporated into John
Wesley's works and credited erro-
neously to him. Bro. Williams
should post up little.
Besides this it is known that Mr..
John Wesley was at one time an
"immerslonist" in views, but after.
ward came out of the dark into
light and "renounced" it. Ahl
brother, you have cut your finger
by fooling with a tool you were not
used to.
Bro. Williams is either short in
his information in these quotations
he makes, or he is tricky; perhaps
both.
A man would thousand times
better never receiver baptism than
to receive it as a saving ordinance,
or with any undue emphasis on the
mode of its administration. have
had number of persons, who have
been baptized by immersion, re-
quest at my hand rebaptism by
effusion. You worship everything
to which you impute salvation. If
you look to baptism as a saving
ordinance in any sense you defy it
and become an idolater. If you 20
to the water imbued with this heresy
that God has promised to remit
your sins in water baptism, you
come away unpardoned and SO re-
main until you abandon the water
god and take Jesus. The only
condition on which Jesus will save
is to abandon everything, i. e., the
water, the preacher and everything
else, and take Him alone and trust
Him to save you.
REHABILITATION.
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