Studies on the Baptismal Question; Including a Review of Dr. Dale's "Inquiry Into the Usage of Baptizo." - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879. Excerpt: ... Dr. Dale's treatise, as we have said, is essentially baptistic; and there is in it really but very little which is exclusively opposed to the "Baptist theory." His own theory of baptismal " ideal elements" and "controlling influence," which he invented to help him in his almost gigantic effort to disengage baptizo from its acknowledged normal connection with immersion, is as much opposed to Pedobaptist as to Baptist views; and yet to establish this has been the grand endeavor of his prolonged "Inquiry."1 1 Just as we were sending these pages to press, we received the Baptist Keview for 1870, vol. i. No. 1, containing an article on Dale's Theory of Baptism, hy Professor H. Harvey, D.D., of Hamilton Theological Seminary. He thus speaks of the inapplicability and contradictoriness of this "controlling-influence" theory to the New-Testament usage of baptizo as held alike by Baptists and Pedobaptists:--"The assumption that baptizo in religious usage does not denote the outward act has already been shown to be false. When John 'did baptize in the wilderness,' the act affirmed in the verb is clearly defined as outward by other passages: to translate, John 'did change the spiritual condition in the wilderness,' is to destroy the sense. When 'the multitude' of Pharisees and Sadducees 'came forth to be baptized of him,' they certainly did not come to obtain 'a thorough change of spiritual condition;' for John calls them a 'generation of vipers.' When, in speaking of the baptisms under Christ's ministry, it is said, 'Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,' it is impossible to understand the word of other than outward baptism; for surely, if baptism was ' a change in the spiritual condition,' it must have been effected'by Christ, and not by the apostles. When...
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