CHAPTER Sixth.
TESTIMONY OF THE CHRISTIAN FATHERS HOUSEHOLD BAPTISMS.--"PAEDOBAPTIST CONCESSIONS."-- THOMAS SHEPARD'S VIEWS.
BAPTISM OF HIS CHILD.

THE FATHER'S RECORD .-- GREAT INFLUENCE OF THE FAMILY RELATION IN HEATHENISM AND PAGANISM .-- THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF AMERICA .-- DISSUASIVE FROM ALTERCATION .-- QUESTIONS TO A MINISTER ON HIS PRACTICE IN BAPTISMS .-- LIBERALITY .-- PAUL AN EXAMPLE.
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations .-- Ps.

90.
The Lamb hath but one bride, the one church of all times .-- ANON.
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God .-- THE APOSTLE PAUL.
Schoolmen must war with schoolmen, text with text.
The first's the Chaldee paraphrase; the next The Septuagint; opinion thwarts opinion; The Papist holds the first, the last the Arminian; And then the Councils must be called to advise, What this of Lateran says, and that of Nice; The slightly-studied fathers must be prayed, Although in small acquaintance, into aid; When, daring venture, oft, too far into 't, They, Pharaoh like, are drowned, both horse and foot.
FRANCIS QUARLES.
Being determined to possess myself of suitable information on the subject of baptism as practised by the early Christian fathers, I called the next evening to see my pastor, when the following conversation took place: _Mr.M._ I wish, sir, to know the plain and simple truth about the evidence from ecclesiastical history with regard to infant baptism.

The internal evidence, confirming the scriptural argument, fully satisfies me, yet, as a matter of interesting information, I should like to know how it was regarded in the age next to that of the apostles.

You know we often read, and hear it said, that infant baptism is an error which crept into the Christian church about the third century.