Here is the proper place to answer a few objections, that are sometimes alleged against the doctrine contained in this treatise. Our opponents say, " You teach that baptism is the means of regeneration, and that it came in lieu of circumcision. But agreeably to St. Paul's declaration, Rom. 4, it is evident that Abraham was justified before he was circumcised. Now if Abraham was justified before he was circumcised, then we may also be regenerated without baptism ; hence it cannot be the means of regeneration."

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