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THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH. 195
that Baptism, in the very nature of it as exhibited in
the Scriptures, involves a conscious and intelligent confession of Christ, the author of this book distinctly admits the statement, and admits the principle involved.
Baptism is essentially and eminently the Sacrament of
Confession. It has been entitled the Sacrament of Responsibility, and the Sacrament of Regeneration; but
it is far more prominently and distinctively the Sacrament of Confession. The Church, from the apostles
to this day, has always so recognized it. There is not
a Liturgy of Baptism in the whole world that does not
recognize it. The Baptists are right in their principle;
for it is the old Church principle from the beginning.
There never was a Baptism in all the ages separated
from the confession of Christ, until the non-Episcopal
Pedobaptists, since the Protestant Reformation, initiated
such a rite. The confession of Christ is an indispensable part of a true Christian Baptism.
On this principle all the baptismal offices of the
Protestant Episcopal Church are constructed, as we
have received them from the early ages—those for both
adults and infants. Even in that apparently exceptional
case where a child in imminent danger of death is baptized in private, when the confession by the sponsors
is omitted, it is provided and insisted on that, if the
child recover, it shall be brought afterward into the
Church with sponsors, when the Baptism shall be certified, and the confession shall be made for it, in anticipation of the child's formal assumption of that confession at its future Confirmation. If the child had died,
it would have died as a member of the Church, although
unconscious of its privilege. All would have been done
| 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 | 00000199 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | THE COMPREHENSIVE CHURCH. 195 that Baptism, in the very nature of it as exhibited in the Scriptures, involves a conscious and intelligent confession of Christ, the author of this book distinctly admits the statement, and admits the principle involved. Baptism is essentially and eminently the Sacrament of Confession. It has been entitled the Sacrament of Responsibility, and the Sacrament of Regeneration; but it is far more prominently and distinctively the Sacrament of Confession. The Church, from the apostles to this day, has always so recognized it. There is not a Liturgy of Baptism in the whole world that does not recognize it. The Baptists are right in their principle; for it is the old Church principle from the beginning. There never was a Baptism in all the ages separated from the confession of Christ, until the non-Episcopal Pedobaptists, since the Protestant Reformation, initiated such a rite. The confession of Christ is an indispensable part of a true Christian Baptism. On this principle all the baptismal offices of the Protestant Episcopal Church are constructed, as we have received them from the early ages—those for both adults and infants. Even in that apparently exceptional case where a child in imminent danger of death is baptized in private, when the confession by the sponsors is omitted, it is provided and insisted on that, if the child recover, it shall be brought afterward into the Church with sponsors, when the Baptism shall be certified, and the confession shall be made for it, in anticipation of the child's formal assumption of that confession at its future Confirmation. If the child had died, it would have died as a member of the Church, although unconscious of its privilege. All would have been done |
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