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Press of Economy Printers, Ashland, Kentucky, Published date: 1951. Hardcover; 232 pp plus 1 page questionnaire; 21 cm.
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In good condition with acceptable dust jacket. Original maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover; light shelf wear and mild surface rubbing; corners lightly bumped; binding sound. Previous owner's signature in ink on front pastedown. Interior pages lightly age toned but otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket present with moderate edge wear, chipping, several short tears up to approximately 1 inch, creasing, and small losses at spine ends and corners; general surface soiling and fading. Now housed in an archival quality removable Brodart cover. Baptist controversial and historical study examining the doctrine of alien baptism, arguing for the historic Baptist position regarding church authority, immersion, and continuity from the apostolic church through the Anabaptist tradition and Reformation era. Includes historical analysis, theological argument, and a concluding study questionnaire intended for church instruction. From the rear jacket flap: This volume meets a long felt need among our Baptist people. It is scriptural, true historically, sound in argument, faithful to the age long contention of the Baptists, and a death knell to the false teaching of this pussyfooting age. It shows conclusively that Baptists who are trying to betray our Baptist faith are ignorant of the struggle through which our Baptist fathers have had to come, many times through blood and imprisonment. The book demonstrates that Christian baptism has four essential elements, namely: a proper subject, a proper mode, a proper design, and a proper administrator. This volume ought to be in the library of every Baptist preacher, every college, every seminary, and should be taught to our young people. Brother Nevins has done a splendid piece of laborious work for the truth, and Baptists everywhere are under obligation to him for this timely book. Baptists may have to suffer again for their faith. It would be nothing new for them. I commend Brother Nevins' work without reservation - W. M. Wood.