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Excerpt from An Attempt to Answer the Question: Whose Children Are Entitled Titled to Baptism? The importance of the subject discussed in the following chapters Will hardly be de nied. If it be important that our children be baptized at all, it is important that all should be, that are entitled to the ordinance. The question of right has greatly agitated our churches, and notwithstanding the signal den feat that was sustained by the advocates of the exclusive system, in the decision of the Synod of '34, Opinions remain unchanged. Many are still grieved that their children are refused a place in the church, While they consider them entitled to that privilege. On the other hand, conscience is pleaded for re jecting them, as if it would be a profanation of holy things to receive them. Nothing can produce uniformity of practice, but uniformity in the principles adopted and any thing that looks like an approximation to this, must be the result, not of Synodical decisions, but of free and friendly discussion. Under this conviction the writer was dis posed to commence such a discussion in the columns of the Christian Intelligencer But the prudent Editors, fearful of the strife of pens, apprehended inconvenience from the design, and it was abandoned. The subject, however, continued to occupy a portion of at tention, and the following essay is the result. It would perhaps be a piece of vanity to an ticipate more from its publication, than the calling of the minds of our ministers and peo ple in some degree to the claims of our chil dren. The truth lies somewhere, and although we have no reason to look for entire uniformi' ty of opinion on any subject, yet I see noth ing to forbid the hope, that candour, judgment, and the love of truth, applied to the investiga tion, may do much towards effecting a greater degree of unity on this question, than at' pre sent exists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.