Baptism: The Bondage of Form and Custom

(Extracts from an article by Dean Stanley in the Nineteenth Century Magazine, October, 1879)—

What was Baptism in the Apostolic age? It coincided with the greatest religious change which the world had yet witnessed.

Multitudes of men and women were seized with one common impulse, and abandoned, by the irresistible conviction of a day, an hour, a moment, their former habits, friends, associates—to be enrolled in a new society, under the Banner of a New Faith.

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Author: Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

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Bible reference(s): Matthew 3:6, Matthew 3:7, Mark 1:5, Mark 16:16, Luke 3:3, Luke 3:7, Luke 3:12, Luke 3:21, Luke 7:30, John 1:25, John 1:31, John 3:22, John 4:2, Acts 2:41, Acts 8:12, Acts 8:13, Acts 8:16, Acts 8:36, Acts 8:38, Acts 9:18, Acts 10:48, Acts 16:15, Acts 16:33, Acts 18:8, Acts 19:3, Acts 19:5, Acts 22:16, Romans 6:3, Romans 6:4, 1 Corinthians 1:13, 1 Corinthians 1:14, 1 Corinthians 1:15, 1 Corinthians 1:16, 1 Corinthians 1:17, 1 Corinthians 10:2, 1 Corinthians 15:29, Galatians 3:27, Ephesians 4:5, Colossians 2:12, 1 Peter 3:21

Source: “Borrowed Pens: Baptism,” The Testimony, Vol. 10, No. 116, August 1940, pp. 258-61.

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