Gents Mag 1739 p.11

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1739 p.11
font   Bridekirk   baptism
	Baptism, Bridekirk Font DIPPING the Proper BAPTISM. ... ... That Baptism was administered by Immersion in the Scripture Times, is confess'd by many, that to this Day adhere to the Innovation of Sprinkling, and that it was performed this Way in After-Times I may prove (by way of Appendix to the many Testimonies I before gave) from that famous old Font at Bridekirk in Cumberland, which seems by the Inscription to be erected upon the most early Conversion of the Saxons to Christianity; where, as Bishop Nicholson observes, 'we have on the East Side fairly represented a Person in a long sacerdotal Habit dipping a Child into the Water, and a Dove, (the Emblem, no doubt, of the Holy Ghost) hovering over the Infant.' They are the Words of the Bishop to Sir William Dugdale, that famous Antiquarian, and may be found in Gibson's Cambden, p.841. ... In a letter by Marcus written 16 October 1738.
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