Immersionism Not a Biblical Dogma

T he Romish theory adopted by the Baptists, that baptism is a burial, is founded on an entire misconception of the mode of burial practised in the East. We bury our dead under the earth, and this, by a stretch of the fancy, may be conceived as something like putting a person under water; but there was no such custom known to the Apostles or those to whom they preached or wrote. The Greeks and Romans who were numerous in Judea, and almost the sole inhabitants in the other countries where the...