Excerpt from Dissertations on Christian Baptism: In Which Is Shewn That Antipaedobaptism Is in Opposition to the Holy Scriptures and the General Practice of the Church of Christ, in All Ages Platonic philosophy taught: and it seems to have been an Opinion not uncommon amongst the Jews, in the days of our Saviour. Concerning the man that was born blind, the disciples, therefore, ask him - master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? But, this pres-existence of infants, being a matter of absolute uncertainty, nu supported by any solid or probable grou: .ds, reason derives its principal satisfaction from the supposi tion of their existence in a state after death. There, the Almighty Rewarder can give them pleasures and entertainments abundantly to counterbalance the sufferings of their present state. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.