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190 THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH.
it is a most effective bond of unity, by which every
member of the Church becomes introduced personally
to his chief pastor under Christ, and voluntarily acknowledges his canonical authority and superintendence ; that the particular benediction of a. venerable
man of God and a chief officer in the Church, received
in this rite, is desirable ; that to be made a special subject of prayer by the whole Church, met together in the
name of Christ, is profitable ; that to repeat the baptismal vow of self-consecration to the Lord's service is in
itself confirmatory of the disciple's faith and purposes ;
that if these considerations were absent, and the rite
were simply an ordinance of the Church for the sake
of promoting decency and order in its services, there
would be nothing objectionable in it, but much to recommend it.
The force of all these considerations applies in the
case even of persons who have been baptized in adult
or riper years.
We will not dwell upon this view of our subject.
II. We now ask the attention of the reader to our
main design in this section—a statement of the relation
of Confirmation to Infant Baptism.
Our argument is brief and distinct. There is but " one
Baptism." The same ideas must be always implied in it,
upon whomsoever administered. There are two great
ideas, as the Protestant Episcopal Church interprets the
no question of this assertion. Since that era all Protestant Episcopal
Churches have retained" it, and all the Lutheran Churches (even those not
Episcopal) have retained it. And the learned and leading men in all
those Protestant Churches which have not retained it, from Calvin and
Beza down to the heads of the non-Episcopal bodies of the present day in
our own country, have strongly favored the reestablishment of the rite.
| Title | The comprehensive church |
| Creator | Vail, Thomas H. (Thomas Hubbard) |
| Publisher | Appleton |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000194 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 190 THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH. it is a most effective bond of unity, by which every member of the Church becomes introduced personally to his chief pastor under Christ, and voluntarily acknowledges his canonical authority and superintendence ; that the particular benediction of a. venerable man of God and a chief officer in the Church, received in this rite, is desirable ; that to be made a special subject of prayer by the whole Church, met together in the name of Christ, is profitable ; that to repeat the baptismal vow of self-consecration to the Lord's service is in itself confirmatory of the disciple's faith and purposes ; that if these considerations were absent, and the rite were simply an ordinance of the Church for the sake of promoting decency and order in its services, there would be nothing objectionable in it, but much to recommend it. The force of all these considerations applies in the case even of persons who have been baptized in adult or riper years. We will not dwell upon this view of our subject. II. We now ask the attention of the reader to our main design in this section—a statement of the relation of Confirmation to Infant Baptism. Our argument is brief and distinct. There is but " one Baptism." The same ideas must be always implied in it, upon whomsoever administered. There are two great ideas, as the Protestant Episcopal Church interprets the no question of this assertion. Since that era all Protestant Episcopal Churches have retained" it, and all the Lutheran Churches (even those not Episcopal) have retained it. And the learned and leading men in all those Protestant Churches which have not retained it, from Calvin and Beza down to the heads of the non-Episcopal bodies of the present day in our own country, have strongly favored the reestablishment of the rite. |
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