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essential characteristics of Godliness, a question is brought, not whether infants should be baptized at all, none contradicted this, but whether it is right to baptize them immediately or on the eighth day; to a man, they all determined to baptize them immediately." This transaction passed in the year 253. See Rev. Jesse Townsend's abridged Church History of Milner, page 131.

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