Inconsistency

Then surely we must be the most inconsistent set of Christians in the world, to hold up the necessity of baptism by our profession, and yet when we come to the Lord’s table, practically deny it, by receiving those to our communion whom we do not hesitate to tell the world, we look upon as unbaptized persons; and so for the sake of holding free communion, we must “build again the thing that we have destroyed, and thereby make ourselves transgressors,” for once renouncing them.

Thomas Baldwin, The Baptism of Believers on, and the Particular Communion of the Baptist Churches Explained and Vindicated in Three Parts, (Boston: Manning & Loring, 1806), 36.