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 be proved that they were baptized; for the universal expression of “all the house,” sometimes signifies only the adult part of it. But the scripture account of those baptized houses demonstrates that they were not infants. the house of Cornelius "feared God, and received the HOLY GHOST. " Lydia's household were AS. The word of the Lord was in the Jailer's house; and they  in God as well as himself. the house of Crispus on the Lord, and the house of Stephanas "addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints. " Now if these things, which are affirmed of all the baptized, will not apply unto infants, then it is plain there were no infants baptized in those houses.

In respect to the or manner of Baptism, an argument for, in opposition to , has been drawn from the blood of Christ having been thus said to be applied to the soul. We can hardly be persuaded, that those who use this argument, will seriously assert, that there is a material application of the Redeemer's blood to the souls even of believers, although their language indicates something of this kind, when they say. "if the blood of bulls— the unclean sanctifieth — is not the blood of Christ sufficient, when applied “the same way,” to purge the conscience