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Classic Reprints No. 4
A Sermon on Christian Baptism, With Many Quotations from Pedobaptist Authors. To Which Are Added a Letter of the Church in Plymouth, Mass.; and an Address on the Mode of Baptizing
By Adoniram Judson

Fifth American Edition
1846
116 pages
$15.00

Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) is well known as the great Baptist missionary to Burma. What is not so well know, however, is that he left for the mission field a Congregationalist and came back a Baptist. While on his voyage, he changed his views on the mode and subjects of baptism and was later baptized. This sermon was first preached on September 27, 1812, in Calcutta, India. This fifth American edition was the last revised and enlarged by the author.

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Classic Reprints No. 22
Baptism for the Dead
By S. W. Whitney, et al.

1852-1884
76 pages
$10.00

A compilation of articles by five nineteenth-century Baptist ministers on the highly-controversial Mormon prooftext "baptized for the dead" in 1 Corinthians 15:29.

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Classic Reprints No. 24
The Rise of the Use of Pouring and Sprinkling for Baptism
By Norman Fox

1882
33 pages
$10.00

Reprinted from The Baptist Review, this article by the nineteenth-century Baptist minister Norman Fox is a study of when, why, and how pouring and sprinkling for baptism came to be used instead of immersion.

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Classic Reprints No. 28
Infant Baptism an Invention of Men
By Irah Chase

1863
272 pages
$35.00

First published by the American Baptist Publication Society, this exhaustive treatise on baptism was originally written as a reply to the baptismal views of Horace Bushnell. Includes additional articles on Origen's testimony respecting the baptism of children and on baptism for the dead.

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Classic Reprints No. 38
Immersion Essential to Christian Baptism
By John A. Broadus

1892
66 pages
$10.00

A detailed treatise on the mode of baptism by the distinguished nineteenth-century Baptist minister John Broadus.

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Classic Reprints No. 40
The Baptist Reply to James Dale on Baptism
By A. C. Kendrick, et al.

1869-1879
117 pages
$15.00

Presbyterian minister James Dale (1812-1881) authored what has been considered by pedobaptists to be the definitive work on the mode of baptism. In his five volumes on baptism, numbering over 1800 pages (Classic Baptism [1867], Judaic Baptism [1869], Johannic Baptism [1871], Christic Baptism [1874], and Patristic Baptism [1874]), Dale is credited with proving, against the Baptists, that Christian baptism could not be by immersion. Because Dale's volumes were reprinted in the 1990s, it is essential that the Baptist reply to Dale, written during the period 1869-1879, likewise be reprinted. This collection of articles is both a devastating critique of Dale and a treatise on scriptural Baptism. Also included are two reviews critical of Dale by writers for two pedobaptist publications.

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Classic Reprints No. 92
The Design of Baptism, Viewed in its Relation to the Christian Life
By Irah Chase

1851
204 pages

$20.00

The first section of this book, from which the title was taken, was first given as an introductory discourse before the Boston Association of Baptist Churches in 1828. This is supplemented by five additional articles on baptism relating to the church father Irenaeus, Edward Robinson's Greek lexicon, the sufficiency of water for baptizing in Palestine, infant baptism, and baptismal regeneration.

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Classic Reprints No. 134
Infant Baptism and a Regenerated Church Membership Irreconcilable
By W. H. H. Marsh
1872
34 pages

$10.00


Reprinted from Bibliotheca Sacra, this Baptist writer examines the contradictory explanations of pedobaptists regarding the relation which baptized infants sustain to the church.

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Classic Reprints No. 169
Baptism Discovered Plainly & Faithfully, According to the Word of God
By John Norcott

1878
A New Edition, Corrected and Somewhat Altered by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
80 pages

$10.00

First published in 1672, this edition of an early work on baptism by English Baptist John Norcott (1621-1676) was updated by the famed Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892).


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