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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
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.
2. From the Lordship of God, who may impose upon the reasonable Creature whatsoever duty he pleaseth.
3. From the nature of a Creature, which oweth unto God what duty he will call for.
4. From the nature of Community, where the absent, yea, th•se that are unborn, are obliged by the deed of their Plenipotentiary acting Legally, 2 Sam. 21 1. Joshua 9.7, 15, 18. Joshuas Covenant with the Gib. onites bound Saul.
4. From the nature of Community, where the absent, yea, th•se that are unborn, are obliged by the deed of their Pleni•otentiary acting Legally, 2 Sam. 21 1. Joshua 9.7, 15, 18. Ioshu••s Covenant with the Gib. onites bound Saul.