INFANT-BAPTISM THE MEANS OF NATIONAL REFORMATION ACCORDING TO S.H.1827. 222 THE DOCTRINE AND DISCIPLINE OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH: IN NINE LETTERS TO A FRIEND. BY HENRY BUDD, M. A. CHAPLAIN OF BRIDEWELL HOSPITAL, MINISTER OF BRIDEWELL If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.- Be not afraid, only believe.-Mark v. 36. Lord, I believe, help thou my unbelief.-Mark ix. 24. LONDON: PRINTED FOR L. B. SEELEY AND SON: R. B. SEELEY AND BURNSIDE, FLEET STREET: J. HATCHARD AND SON, PICCADILLY. MDCCCXXVII. LETTER ΤΟ THE REV. EDWARD BICKERSTETH. SECRETARY TO THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. To improve a community of natural men, united for the common advantages of social life, into a Communion of Saints, enjoying the privileges, discharging the duties, and encouraging the hopes of the Gospel-is the highest object at which both the Statesman and Divine can aim, though they should live in the most refined condition of society upon earth. It is with this view, I conceive, that the State has instituted our Ecclesiastical Establishment t; and that it expects all-both Divine and Layman to concur in advancing the kingdom of "the Christ of God," as the highest possible attainment that can make the subjects of the realm truly happy whether here or hereafter. This kingdom of Christ is a spiritual kingdom; and does not proceed from any native moral power or goodness of man whatever it |