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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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Proposition III.
By virtue of this Confederation Children are made Church-members.
1. That in Children which giveth that fo•m of member ship maketh Children Church members, But Confederation giveth the Form of Church membership. Therefore Confederation maketh Children Church members.
2dly. That whereupon God declareth Children to be in Covenant with him to be holy, and to have right unto Church Privileges, makes Children to be Church members. But upon Confederation God declareth Children to be in Covenant with him to be holy, and to have right to Church Privileges, Gen. 17. 1 Cor. 7.14. Acts 2.39. therefore Confederation makes Children to be Church members.