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The church-membership of children, and their right to baptism according to that holy and…The church-membership of children, and their right to baptisme according to that holy and…
The church-membership of children, and their right to baptism according to that holy and everlasting covenant of God, established between Himself and the faithful ... cleared up in a letter, sent unto a worthy friend of the author ... / by Thomas Shepard ...The church-membership of children, and their right to baptisme according to that holy and everlasting covenant of God, established between Himself and the faithfull ... cleared up in a letter, sent unto a worthy friend of the author ... / by Thomas Shepard ...
Cambridge: printed by Samuel Green, 1663Cambridg: printed by Samuel Green, 1663
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3. You think that if men only, grown up, and able to profess Faith, should be of the Church, then all things would be more clear abo•• Children: Truly I believe the quite contrary, upon y• grounds before laid dow•; For, 1. Hereby pollution of Church shall not be avoided, but rather introduced, to exclu•• Children from an holy-making Covenant, as we have proved. 2. Hereby that good and benefit of their Covenant, should be lost, (not gained) by excluding them out of Covenant, until they can personally profess, and make use of the Covenant: The wisdom of man▪ furthers not the Righteousness of God. And here let me conclude with the naked profession o• my Faith to you in this point, which is • Bulwark of defence against all that is said by Anabaptists against baptising of Infants.
3. You think that if men only, grown up, and able to profess Faith, should be of the Church, then all things would be more clear abo•• Children: Truly I believe the quite contrary, upon y• grounds before laid dow•; For, 1. Hereby pollution of Church shall not be avoyded, but rather introduced, to exclu•• Children from an holy-making Covenant, as we have proved. 2. Hereby that good and benefit of their Covenant, should be lost, (not gain'd) by excluding them out of Covenant, untill they can personally profess, and make use of the Covenant: The wisdome of man▪ furthers not the Righteousness of God. And here let me conclude with the naked profession o• my Faith to you in this point, which is • Bulwark of defence against all that is said by Anabaptists against baptising of Infants.