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Excerpt from A Treatise on Baptism: Also a Treatise on Confirmation
I have subjoined to this Treatise the translation of a discourse of st. Basrl the great, in which he exhorts the many who in his age delayed baptism, although con vinced of the truth of Christianity, to hasten to - receive it. The readers will no doubt be gratified to hear, as it were, this venerable Doctor of the East, after fifteen centuries, explaining the nature and effects of baptism, enforcing its necessity, and pointing to the vain pretexts on which it was by many postponed. His discourse will be particu larly felt by some, who in our day likewise postpone, from time to time, the reception of this most necessary Sacra ment..
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