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The first principles of New-England concerning the subject of baptism & communion of churchesThe first principles of New-England concerning the subject of baptisme & communion of churches
The first principles of New-England concerning the subject of baptism & communion of churches : collected partly out of the printed books, but chiefly out of the original manuscripts of the first and chief fathers in the New-English churches : with the judgment of sundry learned divines of the congregational way in England, concerning the said questions : published for the benefit of those who are of the rising generation in New-England / by Increase Mather ...The first principles of New-England concerning the subject of baptisme & communion of churches : collected partly out of the printed books, but chiefly out of the original manuscripts of the first and chiefe fathers in the New-English churches : with the judgment of sundry learned divines of the congregational way in England, concerning the said questions : published for the benefit of those who are of the rising generation in New-England / by Increase Mather ...
printed by Samuel Green, 1675
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Unto these might have been added the Testimony of that Reverend and faithful Servant of Christ Mr. John Wilson, the first Pastor of the ⟨p. 27⟩first Church in Boston. But his Judgement touching the question in hand is known to all that knew him. And the Reader is referred to his dying Spee hes, concerning this matter which are inserted in the Book called New Englands memorial. (pag. 183. 184.) which because they were amongst the last words of so holy a man, cannot without great sin be despised or disregarded. Also we might have mentioned the Judgement of Reverend Mr. Norris; which that it did Concur with what hath been expressed, is to be seen from the Records of the Church in Salem, viz. in their Records of the 24th. of the first Month: And of the 9th of the fifth Month and sixth Month, Anno 1654. Likewise we might have produced the Judgement of Mr. Philips sometimes the faithful Pastor of the Church in Watertown, but the Reader is for that referred to the Preface in the Synod Book.
Unto these might have been added the Testimony of that Reverend and faithful Servant of Christ Mr. Iohn Wilson, the first Pastor of the ⟨p. 27⟩first Church in Boston. But his Judgement touching the question in hand is known to all that knew him. And the Reader is referred to his dying Spee hes, concerning this matter which are inserted in the Book called New Englands memorial. (pag. 183. 184.) which because they were amongst the last words of so holy a man, cannot without great sin be despised or disregarded. Also we might have mentioned the Judgement of Reverend Mr. Norris; which that it did Concur with what hath been expressed, is to be seen from the Records of the Church in Salem, viz. in their Records of the 24th. of the first Moneth: And of the 9th of the fifth Moneth and sixth Moneth, Anno 1654. Likewise we might have produced the Judgement of Mr. Philips sometimes the faithful Pastor of the Church in Watertown, but the Reader is for that referred to the Preface in the Synod Book.
Also that some godly and Judicious of the Congregational way in England, are for a greater Latitude in the point of Baptism, then our dissenting Antisynodalian Brethren do acknowledge, is manifest from what sundry Learned men of that way have long sinc published.