I have a new favorite book on baptism (it takes the place of John Murray’s Christian Baptism). The author, Daniel Baker, trained at Old Princeton and was an avid evangelist. Though written in 1853, A Plain and Scriptural View of Baptism is immediate and readable. He starts in the right place:
I am now an old disciple; my locks are silvery. Full threescore years have rolled over my head, and more than thirty-six years have I preached with some success, I hope, the glorious gospel of the blessed God. My sun of life must soon go down; even now the shades of evening are lengthening around me. With much love for my brethren who in the matter of baptism differ from me (and yet with many of whom I have often taken sweet counsel, and gone to the house of God in company), I now hand over to my family, to the church of God, and the world at large, in this little book, my testimony in favor of doctrines and practices which I verily believe to be both scriptural and true; and all I request of the reader is, with a prayerful spirit to read, examine, and compare; bringing everthing to the test of God’s blessed word, withal remembering, that as neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature, even so neither will water baptism, however administered, avail anything without the washing of regeneration, and the renewing of the Holy Ghost.
Pick up a copy. If you are a paedobaptist, you’ll be strengthened. If you are a credobaptist, you’ll be challenged.