...are discerned from others that be not christened, but it is also a sign of Regeneration or New-Birth, whereby, as by an instrument, they that receive Baptism rightly are grafted into the 89 Ibid., 265. w White, A Brief History of Christian Worship, 145. Church; the promises of the forgiveness...

...Other Christians have also professed, as Methodists did in their 1784 "Articles of Religion," that "baptism is not only a sign of profession and mark of difference, whereby Christians are distinguished from others that are not baptized, but it is also a sign of regeneration,...

...onto the American Methodists. The article of baptism was given to the American Methodists verbatim: Baptism is not only a sign of profession, and mark of difference, whereby Christians are distinguished from others that are not baptized; but it is a sign of regeneration or...