{"product_id":"1809-solemn-reasons-for-rejecting-baptist-practice-and-theory","title":"1809 Solemn Reasons for Rejecting Baptist Practice and Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003eWorcester, Noah. \u003cstrong\u003eSolemn Reasons for Declining to Adopt the Baptist Theory and Practice: in a Series of Letters to a Baptist Minister. To which is added, A Question concerning Baptism. \u003c\/strong\u003eCharlestown, Mass.: Printed by Samuel T. Armstrong, 1809. Third Edition. [12137]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRemoved, no wrapper, 6 1\/2 x 4 1\/4 inches, 40 pages. Fair. Pamphlet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis reasons: I. Baptist principles are defended by \"disgusting quibbles, cants, or jeers, or insulting exclamations.\" II. Their principles as grounded on dogmatical assertions and not upon sound arguments. III. There is no warrant for believer's only baptism in the Scriptures. IV. The demand for an explicit warrant is inconsistent. V. Close communion is heretical, unauthorized, and sacrilegious. VI. Baptists revile the covenant the God made with Abraham. VII. Baptist beliefs are self-contradictory. VII. The principles of Baptists are not proved true because multitudes believe them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \"Question concerning Baptism\" is, May Baptism ever be repeated due to Scruples of Conscience?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNoah Worcester (1758-1837), “a Unitarian Congregational minister, was born at Hollis, N. H…His opportunities for going to school ceased altogether in the winter of 1774-5. He joined the army as a fifer in the spring of 1775, and continued in the service eleven months. In the campaign of 1777 he was in the army again for two months as a fife major. In the winter of 1776-77 he was engaged in teaching school at Plymouth, and followed this occupation for nine successive winters. In Feb. 1782, he removed from Plymouth to Thornton, where he united with the Congregational Church. He engaged for some time in the study of theological questions in connection with his ordinary labors, and was licensed to preach in 1786. He was ordained and installed pastor of the Congregational Church at Thornton…He travelled in the employ of the New Hampshire Missionary Society in 1803-4 in Northern New Hampshire…In 1813 he removed to Brighton, Mass., and began to edit \u003cem\u003eThe Christian Disciple\u003c\/em\u003e, in which relation he continued until the close of 1818. In 1819 he became the editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Friend of Peac\u003c\/em\u003ee, a quarterly which he conducted for ten years…” – M’Clintock \u0026amp; Strong.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haaswurth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43872467288130,"sku":"ABE12137","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0191\/6066\/2082\/files\/DSC07342_f1f4901b-ef6d-43b6-b305-404365cda440.jpg?v=1781893010","url":"https:\/\/www.haaswurth.com\/products\/1809-solemn-reasons-for-rejecting-baptist-practice-and-theory","provider":"Haaswurth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}