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HISTORY

OF THE MODES

OF

CHRISTIAN BAPTISM

FROM

HOLY SCRIPTURE, THE COUNCILS ECUMENICAL AND
PROVINCIAL, THE FATHERS, THE SCHOOLMEN, AND THE RUBRICS

OF THE WHOLE CHURCH EAST AND WEST,

IN

ILLUSTRATION AND VINDICATION OF THE

RUBRICS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SINCE THE REFOR-
MATION, AND THOSE OF THE AMERICAN CHURCH.

BY

REV. JAMES CHRYSTAL, A.M.,

A PRESBYTER OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

PHILADELPHIA:

LINDSAY AND

BLAKISTON.

1861.

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