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Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…
Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by R. Ibbitson and M. Wright, 1661
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I. To see that they be admitted into the Church by Baptism in conven• […], i. e. within some few days after they are born. The Jew. 1vere commanded to circumcise their children on the eighth day; But though Baptism succeeded in the room of Circumcision,2 as the Apostle hinteth; yet are not we now under the Gospel strictly tied to that day; notwithstanding from that command of God to the Jews, we may doubtless infer, that the Children of Christians may and ought to be baptized within some few days after they are born.
I. To see that they bee admitted into the Church by Baptism in conven• 〈…〉, i. e. within some few daies after they are born. The Iew. 1vere commanded to circumcize their children on the eighth day; But though Baptism succeeded in the room of Circumcision,2 as the Apostle hinteth; yet are not wee now under the Gospel strictly tied to that day; notwithstanding from that command of God to the Iews, wee may doubtless infer, that the Children of Christians may and ought to be baptized within some few daies after they are born.
II. To train them up in the fear and nurture of the Lord. This duty the Apostle Paul in special presseth upon Parents, Ye Parents, saith he,