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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> After due allowance is made for considerable variety of practice in different localities the baptismal liturgy of the Churches of the West had nevertheless by the seventh century assumed a certain shape con- sisting in catechumenate confession of the faith and baptism in water one or two unctions and in some Churches hand-laying and finally the first communion of the baptized usually at the mass of the Paschal vigil. We are not here concerned with the antiquity of this rite or of its component parts whether for instance paedobaptism which is treated as normal in the Gelasian Sacramentary was permitted in the apostolic Church; whether hand-laying such as we find in Acts 8.17 and 19.6 was the normal complement of baptism in water in the first century or in the ante-Nicene Church; whether references to an unction with the Spirit in 2 Cor. 1.21 and 1 John 2.20 27 are to be understood metaphorically or taken as allusions to an unction with oil which formed part of the rite of baptism in the first century. (LL)