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THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH. 191
Scriptures, always implied in it—the one a voluntary
confession of the person baptized by Christ and His
Church, the other a voluntary confession of Christ on
entering His Church (after repentance and faith, i. e.,
conversion) by the person baptized. Now, in Infant
Baptism the former may exist, but the latter cannot
exist. The voluntary confession of Christ, after repentance and faith, cannot be made by the infant directly ;
and therefore the Church has appointed sponsors or
sureties (legal agents, like the guardians of minors) to
make it "in the name of the child." There must, it is
therefore contended, in order to secure to an adult the
perfectness or completeness of his Infant Baptism, be
some one public act, having Divine sanction or apostolic precedent, as distinctive as Baptism itself, appointed by the Church which practises Infant Baptism, for the definite and special object of allowing
every person baptized in infancy to come before the
Church and the world, when arrived at years of discretion and having exercised repentance and faith, there
solemnly to assume his baptismal obligations to himself, and, by approving and acknowledging his Infant
Baptism, to thus transfer it, to all intents and purposes, to his maturity, as his own voluntary adult act.
This view is not only suggested by common sense;
it is sustained by manifest and abundant legal analogies.
The adult thus acknowledges the infant (i. e., himself
in his infancy) as his proxy; he clothes the sponsors of
his childhood with his power of attorney; he approves
them as his agents, and binds himself to their acts. And
what occasion can be more appropriate to this one public and solemn act, than that which combines with this
| 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 | 00000195 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH. 191 Scriptures, always implied in it—the one a voluntary confession of the person baptized by Christ and His Church, the other a voluntary confession of Christ on entering His Church (after repentance and faith, i. e., conversion) by the person baptized. Now, in Infant Baptism the former may exist, but the latter cannot exist. The voluntary confession of Christ, after repentance and faith, cannot be made by the infant directly ; and therefore the Church has appointed sponsors or sureties (legal agents, like the guardians of minors) to make it "in the name of the child." There must, it is therefore contended, in order to secure to an adult the perfectness or completeness of his Infant Baptism, be some one public act, having Divine sanction or apostolic precedent, as distinctive as Baptism itself, appointed by the Church which practises Infant Baptism, for the definite and special object of allowing every person baptized in infancy to come before the Church and the world, when arrived at years of discretion and having exercised repentance and faith, there solemnly to assume his baptismal obligations to himself, and, by approving and acknowledging his Infant Baptism, to thus transfer it, to all intents and purposes, to his maturity, as his own voluntary adult act. This view is not only suggested by common sense; it is sustained by manifest and abundant legal analogies. The adult thus acknowledges the infant (i. e., himself in his infancy) as his proxy; he clothes the sponsors of his childhood with his power of attorney; he approves them as his agents, and binds himself to their acts. And what occasion can be more appropriate to this one public and solemn act, than that which combines with this |
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