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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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even because his own Interest was therein Concerned, me• are soon mov•d when their own Interest is struck at, so was the holy heart of Christ much moved, because when Children, •e•e k••t from him, his own Interest was prejudiced. Brethren▪ if so it be, that th• Doctrine of the Synod he Truth, you that oppose it, do what in you be opt ju••ce an Interest of Christ, and if so, Christ is not well pleased •ith you for this thing. There is not a more awful Scripture in all the Book of God, the• that where it is said concerning Christs Kingdom, that whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken, M••• 21.44 Brethren, one word let me in the Bow•s of the Lord sa••o you, And I speak it not with a desire to grieve or •ffend any of you, but if my heart deceive me not, Loy• to Christ, and to you, and to the ⟨image 4⟩succeeding Generation in New-England causeth me to speak it, it is only this, oh tremble, lest this very Error of yours prove the breaking, and the ruin of your poor Posterity. They are Solemn and weighty words, and I must Confess have always had an awful Impression upon my Conscience, which the Elders have in the Preface to the late Synod Book; (pag. 12.) should (say they) the Church education of your Children be by the want of your hearty Concurrence rendered either infeasible or ineffectual, should they live as Lambs in a large Pasture for want of your Agreement to own them of the Flock; we beseech you Consider how uncomfortable the Account hereof will be another day.
even because his own Interest was th•rein Concerned, me are soon movd when their own Interest is struck at, so was the holy heart of Christ much moved, because when Children, ee kt from him, his own Interest was prejudiced. Brethren if so it be, that th Doctrine of the Synod he Truth, you that oppose it, do what in you be opt juce an Interest of Christ, and if so, Christ is not well pleasd ith you for this thing. There is not a more awful Scripture in all the Book of God, the that where it is said concerning Christs Kingdom, that whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken, M 21.44 Brethren, one word let me in the Bows of the Lord sao you, And I speak it not with a desire to grieve or ffend any of you, but if my heart deceive me not, Loy to Christ, and to you, and to the