Excerpt from The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review for the Year 1857, Vol. 29 If this extreme, espoused by a small section of Christendom, provides an easy disposal of all questions relative to the children of the Church, by_placing them without its pale, the opposite extreme is no less summary and decisive in relieving those who adopt it, of all embarrassment in this regard. The whole ritual school, including Romanists and romanizing Protestants, not only hold that infants are to be baptized, but that they are regenerated by baptism. It matters not whether they say it regenerates by its own inherent mystical efficacy, or whether the Holy Spirit does the regenerating Work coinstantaneously with its administration. On either hypothesis, the result is the same. The rite of baptism brings with it regeneration as an opus operatum. But Whoever is regenerate and baptized, is a member of the Church visible and invisible, to all intents and purposes. He is to be accounted and dealt with as such. He is fully bound to every duty and entitled to every privilege in the house of God, of which his age and circumstances will admit. 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.