It is nothing else than the preaching and precept of Christ.
The earliest instance of an ecclesiastical precept on the subject occurs in can.
This violates every precept of English law as well as natural justice.
The local council tax precept for policing is the second lowest in the country.
In doctrine the church has been from the first contentious for believers' baptism, holding that nowhere in the New Testament can be found any authority even by inference, precept or example for the baptism of infants.