A Dissertation Concerning the Baptism of Jewish Proselytes... By John Gill, D.D.
In which are shown, who they are of the Proselytes of the Jews, said to be baptised, what proof there is of any such custom among the Jews, before, at, or near the times of John the Baptist, christ and his Apostles...
Stock Code 107066
London, Printed for George Keith, 1771
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First & only edition. The first and only edition of John Gill's (1697-1771) study of the history of baptism in Abrahamic religion, refuting suggestions that the Christian ceremony was based on the earlier Jewish practice of Mikveh.
Gill, a Reformed Baptist minister learned in Hebrew, was primarily concerned that Jewish authorities like Maimonides were being cited erroneously to uphold the practice of infant baptism. For 'Dr Wall, upon these authorities, has thought fit to premise an account of this Jewish baptism, to his History of Infant-baptism, as serving greatly the cause of it, and as throwing light upon the words of Christ and his apostles, concerning it, and the primitive practice of it; and, animated by such authorities, every puny writer, who does not know his right hand from his left in this matter, takes it up, and swaggers with it' (p.21).
ESTC lists 9 copies in UK institutional holdings, and 2 in North America.
First edition; 8vo (21.5 x 12.5 cm); includes ads., title toned, pp. 1-34 bottom edge untrimmed, last few ff. with waterstain, final f. with small hole (0.75 cm); modern half calf, gilt spine; 91, [5 (ads.)] pp.
ESTC T89595.
Gill, a Reformed Baptist minister learned in Hebrew, was primarily concerned that Jewish authorities like Maimonides were being cited erroneously to uphold the practice of infant baptism. For 'Dr Wall, upon these authorities, has thought fit to premise an account of this Jewish baptism, to his History of Infant-baptism, as serving greatly the cause of it, and as throwing light upon the words of Christ and his apostles, concerning it, and the primitive practice of it; and, animated by such authorities, every puny writer, who does not know his right hand from his left in this matter, takes it up, and swaggers with it' (p.21).
ESTC lists 9 copies in UK institutional holdings, and 2 in North America.
First edition; 8vo (21.5 x 12.5 cm); includes ads., title toned, pp. 1-34 bottom edge untrimmed, last few ff. with waterstain, final f. with small hole (0.75 cm); modern half calf, gilt spine; 91, [5 (ads.)] pp.
ESTC T89595.
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