18 May 2021
On Infant Baptism
To
conclude. Let me beg of all who hear me, and who wish to serve God, to
remember, in their ordinary prayers, their habitual thoughts, the daily
business of life, that they were once baptized. If Baptism be merely a ceremony,
to be observed indeed, but then at once forgotten,—a decent form, which it
would neither be creditable, nor for temporal reasons expedient to neglect,—it
is most surely no subject for a Christian minister to speak of; Christ's
religion has no fellowship with bare forms, and nowhere encourages mere outward
observances.
John Henry Newman
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