SATIRE ON 'INFANT SPRINKLING'

The Salopian Zealot: or, the good Vicar in a bad Mood. By John the Dipper …

Sold by G. Keith, and J. Buckland, in London;— T. Evans, Bristol; and by the Booksellers in Salop, Liverpool, &c. [1778].

8vo., pp. 52; a little browned at edges but a very good copy, disbound.

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First edition of a lively verse contribution to an increasingly acrimonious pamphlet war between Baptists. When Samuel Medley preached on the necessity of adult baptism, Richard De Courcy replied with his Letter to a Baptist-Minister (Shrewsbury, 1776) insisting on infant baptism. More pamphlets followed.

Sandys, while expressing ‘the sincerest esteem for his Pedobaptist brethren’, pokes Hudibrastic fun at De Courcy’s reactionary defence of ‘infant sprinkling’ and his pompous and ill-tempered tone in conducting this ‘needless and unedifying’ dispute.

Do take your bible in your hand,
There read and learn your Lord’s command,
(‘Tis plain and easy to the wise,)
And whom, and how, you should baptize:
There, not a single hint or ground,
For sprinkling infants, can be found.

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