Concise Manual of Baptism by John Hunt Cooke
Today’s free book is a Manual of Baptism written from a Baptist perspective by John Hunt Cooke.
My thanks to Book Aid for making this public domain title available for digitisation.
John Hunt Cooke [1828-1908], A Concise Manual of Baptism. London: Baptist Tract and Book Society, 1896. Hbk. pp.128. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]
Table of Contents
- Preface
- The Origin of the Rite of Baptism
- The Baptism of Our Lord
- The Teaching of the New Testament
- On the Baptism of Households
- Origin of Infant Sprinkling
- Baptism in the Early Churches
- First Steps Astray
- Telephoning Tertullian
- The Gret Apostacy
- Some Side Lights
- Baptism in Great Britain
- Sprinkling Conscious Babes
- THe Baptismal Invention of John Calvin
- Three Royal Christenings
- The Baptist Denomination
- Paedobaptism To-day
- Attack on the Citadel
- Conclusion
Main image: The Baptism of Christ in Jordan (frontispiece)