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 are the only people who acknowledge the Lord Jesus Christ as Redeemer and Saviour, and obey his precepts? Can anything be more contrary to the teachings of the heavenly doctrines than such an assertion? Can we conceive of anything more unjust or more offensive to other Christians? Yet this committee, apparently without intending to do, or being aware that they were doing, anything especially unbecoming or heinous, justifies the Convention in its unjust and most unseemly attitude, and bids it hold on to the practical denial (by its rule and recommendations) of the right of any other religious bodies to the Christian ordinances or the Christian name.

And we are brought to the same conclusion when we contemplate the third or final use of baptism as now revealed; which is, "that the man may be regenerated." And the means of regeneration, we are told, are in the possession of all who profess the Christian religion, "because a Christian possesses the Word in which the means of regeneration are plainly described, those means being faith in the Lord and charity toward the neighbor." All Christians, then, have abundant means of attaining the final end of baptism, because they all have the Word. And Swedenborg adds: "Since these three uses follow in order, and unite in the last, and consequently in the conception of the angels cohere as one, therefore when baptism is