Excerpt from The Token of the Covenant: Or the Right Use of Baptism

Another book on baptism may seem to be superfluous. But as long as the question remains unsettled, men will think and speak. It is idle to attribute the divisions on this subject to mere prejudice. There is doubtless enough of that, but the main cause is an honest difference of opinion as to the teaching of the Scriptures. It is by line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little, that all differences are to be finally adjusted. The present treatise does not pretend to effect a final settlement of the question. The author thinks, however, that he here contributes somewhat to a better understanding of the subject by a clear and definite statement of the question at issue, and by the arrangement of the argument, if in nothing else.

The covenant character of the Christian ordinance is the basis of the argument for both the Design and the Subjects. Baptism is presented as the token of the covenant of grace instead of the door into the Church. This I regard as the Scripture teaching, and beyond refutation. Under the Design of Baptism a careful and critical analysis is given of all those Scripture texts that are involved in this controversy, which is no small feature of the work.

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