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He refers to Ambrose, Ser.20.Chrysostom, Hom.6.Epistle to Col., &c., &c.] _Mr.M._ I suppose, then, that you would not object to administer baptism in any other mode of applying water than sprinkling, or pouring.
_Dr.D._ One mode was, I believe, practised at first; and the New Testament teaches me that this was affusion.

The application of water in any way, by an authorized administrator, to a proper subject, in the name of the Trinity, may be valid baptism; but I prefer the New Testament mode, as I understand it, and am happy to allow others the same liberty of judgment which I enjoy.

It would be an extreme case which would lead me to administer the ordinance in any other way than by affusion.
But, said Mr.D., you began by inquiring respecting the practice of infant baptism in the early ages.

I presume that your mind is settled with regard to the connection of the practice with God's everlasting covenant with believers and their offspring.

I lately read a statement of this point, which pleased me much, in the writings of the famous Rev.
Thomas Shepard, the early pastor of the church in Cambridge, Massachusetts.