| Description | Petitions addressed to William, Bishop of Aberdeen and Primus by various congregations in his diocese concerning a recent cause relating to the doctrine of baptism which had been tried in England, in which it was finally decreed to be lawful for a clergyman in England to teach that not all infants admitted to baptism received remission of sins. The petitioners argued that the Church in Scotland should not keep silent in this crisis, since by doing so it would incur the danger of acquiescing to a compromise of the true doctrine of remission of original sin in the grace of baptism. [The petitions are from the congregations of Lonmay, Deer, Cruden, Longside, Turriff, Meikle Folla, Cumineston, Forgue and elsewhere.] 1850. |