Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut. E. B. MAIENE, PRINTER, 98 CATHARINE-ST., NEW-YORK. PREFACE. This volume is published at the request of numerous friends, in accordance with the advice of impartial judges. To compile the writings of an author, and prefix a biographical sketch, may perhaps be regarded as a just tribute of respect; yet such a work is warranted only by the intrinsic value of its contents. The Review of Prof. Stuart on Christian Baptism, has been several years out of print. The edition contained in this volume was thoroughly revised and re-written by the author. He spared no pains to make the work as complete and perfect as possible. While it furnishes a reply to the treatise of Prof. Stuart, it constitutes a convenient manual on Baptism and Communion, generally adapted to every class of readers. The Essays were written at different periods of the author's life, from the commencement to the close of his ministry. The subject matter of some of them is not treated by any author whose works are in general circulation; others possess no less practical and permanent interest; and all together furnish an amount of valuable information rarely found within so small a compass. The Expositions of Scripture are the result of much close study and careful investigation. Some of them are intended to elucidate difficult passages; although they are all of a practical nature, and cannot fail to interest the plainest reader, while they afford important aid to the critical interpreter, and encouragement to every student of the Divine Word. The Memoir is necessarily meagre on account of its brevity. But being designed only as an accompaniment of the compilation it could not be extended without interfering with the general plan of the work. If it should seem not to be sufficiently eulogical, the reader will doubtless find an apology for me in the extravagant and indiscriminate praises too often lavished upon the dead, and in the relation which I sustain to the subject of the memoir. The Introduction by Dr. Cone, while it is a valuable article considered by itself, will serve, in its connection with the writings of Mr. Judd, to show the estimation in which he was held as a Christian and a scholar. For it is certain that the esteem which he enjoyed from his personal acquaintances, was won chiefly by his own intrinsic worth; and if his writings have been received with any degree of favor, it is attributable mainly to their real merits. As it is, the book is commended to the careful perusal and candid judgment of the reader; and with the humble hope that it may in some measure subserve the interests of virtue and religion, it is now sacredly devoted to that cause whose promotion is the author's best reward, and dedicated with profoundest reverence to THE AUTHOR OF ALL TRUTH. NEW HAVEN, July, 1845. O. B. J. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. MEMOIR. I. PARENTAGE early training-conversion-academical studies II. CHRISTIAN experience-call to the ministry-pastoral charge III. DIARY-resignation and retirement-character as a Preacher IV. RESIDENCE in New York-Review of Stuart on Baptism- I. EXPOSITIONS OF SCRIPTURE-Matt. 26: 41; The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. 2 Cor. 3: 18; We all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image. Acts 22: 9; And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spoke to me. John 21: 15: Lovest thou me more than these? Rev. 21: 16; The length, and the breadth, and the height of it, are equal. 1 John 3: 3; And every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as He is pure.. II. SUNDRY ESSAYS-Family Worship-The First Day of the Week the Christian Sabbath—ßarti↔ transferred by order of King James-Character of the Latin Vulgate-Translations from the Vulgate-Purity of the present Greek of the New I. MEANING OF THE WORD. General remarks-Pánto in the tizing at Bethabara and Enon-The circumstances of going into the water, and of performing the rite in the water- The baptism of 3000 on the day of Pentecost-Baptism of the Eunuch-Cornelius and his friends-The jailer and his household-The symbolical import of baptism-A figure of Noah's ark-Metaphorical allusions to the rite-The authority III. PRACTICE OF THE CHURCH SUBSEQUENT TO THE APOSTOLIC AGE. Quotations from the writings of faithful witnesses, I. OBEDIENCE TO THE SAVIOR'S COMMAND ESSENTIAL. That command enjoins immersion-It was meant to be under- stood literally-Spirituality does not supersede external devotion-Wilful neglect of an external duty is spiritual rebellion-The Scriptures attach great importance to literal obedience in the performance of external duties. forbids it-The symbolical import of the rite is against it— No consideration of personal safety or convenience will III. LITERAL OBEDIENCE DOES NOT IMPLY THAT AN EXTERNAL OR- DINANCE IS ESSENTIAL TO SALVATION. Baptists regard faith in Christ as a prerequisite to baptism-They adhere to immer- sion because the Savior commanded it, and not from the fear of being lost-Pedobaptists first changed the rite from immersion to pouring and sprinkling, because they consider- ed it essential to salvation-Such is the importance attached |
