p. 53 | A Short Pattern

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 16, 1866

A Short Pattern.

IN Isaiah xxviii, 20, we find this language: "For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it." This language is a most fit description of the errors of modern orthodoxy; for when they pull their scanty covering of evidence over one error, they invariably expose another. Thus the Pedobaptist in their efforts to defend the doctrine of infant baptism, make the following statement:

"If children are not to be baptized because there is no positive command for it, for the same reason we should not keep the first day of the week."

Here, in attempting to pull the covering over the unscriptural dogma of infant baptism, they expose the barrenness of their evidence for the equally unscriptural doctrine of Sunday-keeping, admitting that there is no commandment for it.