Christian Baptism I

Abstract

"FOR the past two decades or so Baptists have been gratified, and not a little embarrassed, by the number of scholars of other persuasions who have openly criticised the Paedo-Baptist position and have seemed to support the plea of " baptism for believers only "-gratified because their claims for believers' baptism as the New Testament ordinance were openly upheld by scholars of world-wide repute, embarrassed because they themselves were largely silent midst the hubbub of baptismal controversy and, if the truth be told, because they themselves were not at all sure that they had adequately thought through the implications of their own beliefs"