human
When you ask, Did the apostles baptize unconscious babes? you are not well pleased with the reply, _They baptized households_. Your question was with regard to _infants_--the _baptism_ of them. If, therefore, when we ask you, Did the apostles and primitive Christians _sabbatize_ on the first day of the week? you merely reply as above, we do not see but you are guilty of the very same sophistry you are so ready to charge upon your Pedobaptist brethren. Your adroit evasion of the real question seems to place you much in the same predicament as were the Pharisees, when Christ asked them whence was the baptism of John. It appears as if you reasoned with yourselves, and said,
gpt
If we shall say they _did_ sabbatize on the first day of the week, the evidence will be called for, and we cannot find it; but if we shall say they did _not_, we fear the day will lose its sacredness in the eyes of the people.