By R.W. Dale (1829-1895)
Quinta Press. 248 pages. £
ISBN 1 897856 03 2
This is a reprint of a work first published in 1884, now edited by Dr. Digby L. James with a foreword by Rev. Alan Tovey, the General Secretary of an Evangelical Fellowship of Congregational Churches. The original work reflected views about the scope of salvation and about who should be baptised which are 'corrected' in an additional note in this edition.
Infant baptism is vigorously advocated, but apart from this, the principles here, followed in the main by Congregationalists, Baptists and independent evangelical churches, are explained with Biblical evidence and compelling reasoning in easy language. The five basic propositions are:
