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Show 338 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. waters of baptism, and had risen again to walk in newness of life, Paul would say, if he were here, " It is just what we used to do in ancient times; and I wrote to the Church of Rome, telling them that as many as were baptized into Christ were baptized into his death, buried with him by baptism into death," etc. Now if this doctrine is new to the Church of Rome, then that is that church, that priesthood, and those members that have introduced something new, who are departing from the old Christian religion, and not the " Mormons." This reasoning applies just the same to the Church of England. They have just as good a right to have a Church in England as anywhere else-to have a national Church of England by law established, but if they are a true Church of God, all of them have been buried with Christ in baptism, etc., or the apostle must have been mistaken, or there are two different kinds of Gospel. Now if I were speaking to the state Church of England, or the state churches of the Catholic world, I would tell them in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to repent of their new doctrine, and come back to the old standard spoken of by the Apostle, when he says, " though we or an angel from heaven preach any other Gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed," etc. I need not go through with this same application upon the Lutherans, upon the Presbyterians, upon the Methodists, and others, for all these people sprinkle infants; for the principle once carried out will apply, to the whole. H" they are Christians according to the doctrine of the ancient church, they hold the doctrine of |