Laurence. Lay Baptism Invalid: to which is added Dissenters' Baptism null and void

Laurence, R.; Scott, William. Lay Baptism Invalid: to which is added Dissenters' Baptism null and void; With Additions and Illustrations, arranged and edited, by William Scott, M. A. London: James Burns, 1841. Reprinted from the Fourth Edition, 1723. [10429] Blue cloth with printed paper spine label, spine faded, bottom of spine and short edge of board abraded with loss, joints good. 1852 church library bookplate, cliii., 256 clean pp., 4 pp catalogue. Title page in red and black. Good. Hardcover. The 153 pp. of preliminary material includes the Editor's and Author's Prefaces; a Preliminary Discourse of the various Opinions of the Fathers concerning Rebaptisation and invalid Baptisms: with Remarks; and an Appendix to the Preliminary Discourse. This Fourth and last edition encompasses all of the additions made by Laurence in response to his critics. Roger Laurence (1670-1736) was a merchant who had been baptized by Dissenters. His own study of theology led him to renounce that baptism,