Another interpretation of Baptisme for the Dead, is that which I have before mentioned, which he preferreth to the second place of probability; And thence also he inferreth the utility of Prayer for the Dead. For if after the Resurrection, such as have not heard of Christ, or not believed in him, may be received into Christs Kingdom; it is not in vain, after their death, that their friends should pray for them, till they should be risen. But granting that God, at the prayers of the faithfull, may convert unto him some of those that have not heard Christ preached, and consequently cannot have
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This definition of "baptism for the dead" is the closest analogue to the Mormon concept of the same name. Interesting that the early prophets of the Restoration may have drawn from Hobbes to establish a doctrine for which currently we are rridiculed if not reviled.
