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Show 336 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES LN THE FAE WEST. one certain man is commissioned by revelation to preach the Gospel, and cry repentance. Suppose that some persons should hearken and repent, and he should take them and walk down to the water, and bury them in the water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and raise them again out of the water, to represent the death and burial of Jesus Christ, and his resurrection from the dead; and to represent the faith of the individual thus ministered to, that he does believe in Jesus Christ, that he died, and that he did rise from the dead, and that he, the individual, does put his trust and confidence in him for the remission of sins and eternal life-is that anything new ? Would that be new to Peter ? Suppose some person was to relate before Peter and Paul to-day, and the Christians with them, that lived when they lived-suppose they were all present, and this person told them that a man came along preaching repentance, and he called upon us to believe in Jesus Christ, and we did so, believing their testimony, and they took us and buried us in water, and raised us again out the water unto newness of life-would Peter or John blame him ? Would Paul say, " It is something new ?" Or would he say, " Brother, thousands of us received the very same thing in ancient days ?" The Catholic Church profess to be the true church- the ground and pillar of the truth, handed down by regular succession from the ancient church, of which they are still members ; and their priesthood and apostles are now of the very same church which the New Testament calls the true Church at Rome. These Roman Catholics of modern times profess to be members of that very same church that Paul wrote that epistle to. If they are, I will show you to demonstration, if the |