Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE HISTORY INFANT BAPTISM. PART THE FIRST. CHAPTER I. QUOTATIONS OUT OP CLEMENS ROMANUS AND HERMAS. [In the Apostles' Time.] Clemens Romamis, epist. I, ad Corinthios, cap. IJ. l £t Kiii TTijii Iw(3 sroi yiypatfrai, Iwfi rjv ciicatoc icai irrog, aXrj0ivoc, 0eofff(3iie, Utteojuevoc airo Ttovtoc caic5. AXX Owtoc sours jcarrj'yopwv Xe-yEt OvSeic KaOapoc Stto Ei ;u; itfd/ins n 'Cw] iturs. ' Again of Job it is thus written : ' — That he was just ' and blameless, true, one that feared God and eschew- ' ed evil ; yet he condemns himself, and says, There is ' none free from pollution ; no, not though his lije be ' but of the length of one day.' % These words of Job are quoted from ch. xiv. 4, where the English translation is, Who can bring a dean thing out oj an unclean ? — not one ; but in the Greek trans lation, made by the Septuagint, which was in use in thetimes of our Saviour and the apostles, they are as Clement here renders them ; and they are accordingly so read by all the primitive Christians ; and you will see in the following quotations, that they often from thence conclude the necessity of baptism for the forgiveness of sins, even of a child that is but a day old ; and in the next chapter he brings in, to the same purpose, the saying of David, in Psalm li. 5. Clemens Romanus, cap. 38. Ttoioi icat Ttvee iwnofifv tie Tov icffjuov, iiig t£ Ts r Koi ffKOTSC. O iroirjffae rjjuac Kai Srjjuisp-yrjffac fiffriyaytv l i - i i i - l Tov Koafiov aura, nyjoeroijuaffac Toc tutpytaiag avru irptv ' Let us consider, therefore, brethren, whereof we ' were made, who and what kind of persons we came ' into this world, — as if it were out of a sepulchre, and ' from utter darkness. He that made and formed us, ' brought us into his own w...