—Communion—The difference between Christian and Church Fellowship, and between Communion and its Symbols; embracing a Review of the arguments of the Rev. Robert Hall, and Rev. Baptist W. Noel, in favour of Mixed Communion. By G. F. Curtis, A. M. [pp. 557-574]

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gospel: but if they have never been baptized, and on this account are excluded from the Lord's table, it is hard to conceive how they can be lawful ministers of the church. Certainly, if excluded from the Lord's Supper, they ought to be
from the ministry. This has of late been felt so strongly by
the Baptists, in the South West, that recently when two Presbyterian ministers, regularly ordained by the laying on of the
hands of the Presbytery, were induced by some motives to
join the Baptist church, they were not only re-baptized, but
were both re-ordained. Now, this is consistent. But what
will Mr. Curtis say to it? who admits that the Presbyterian is
a true, though not a regular church. The truth is, if Pedobaptists have no right to the privilege of the Lord's Supper,
their Churches are no true churches; their ministers are not
the ministers of Jesus Christ; and all their doings and all
their worship is without the stamp of divine authority. There
is no other true church in the world but the Baptists; and for
more than a thousand years, when there were no Baptists,
there was no true church of Jesus Christ in existence. And
how the Baptist church obtained a beginning-who had the
right to commence baptizing, by immersion, is a subject which
has greatly perplexed their Doctors; and can even now be
scarcely considered as settled on a stable foundation.
Although our author is commonly frank and candid, and
manifests amiable feelings towards his brethren of other denominatlons, yet we have met with one paragraph in his book
of very different character. "The system of Pedobaptism,"
says he, "as a system, has been the embodiment, and is now
the main support of some of the most cardinal errors, that
have ever afflicted Christendom; such as baptismal regeneration and an unconverted Church membership and ministry,
&c." Here, the author's usual candour forsakes him. As to
baptismal regeneration, it is repudiated by almost all evangelical Pedobaptists, and has no necessany connexion with infant
baptism. And we are of opinion, that adult baptism by immersion has, among the Campbellites, been an occasion of as
much evil as the baptismal regeneration of infants. And it
would be as just to attribute to the Baptist church the doctrines
of adult regeneration by baptism, as held by Alex. Campbell
1850.]
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