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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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2. Touching the perverse and Ca•abaptistic•ll intent and meaning of that expression of the Papists, viz. That Spiritual promises descend to us not by carnal generation (as they call it: the very Phrase of many Anabaptists, used in a way of de•ision of the Grace of God) but by Spiritual Regeneration &c. (they are the w•rds of Bellarmine and other Papists, cited & confuted by Am•s & others) read Ames his Answer thereto, B•• Ever. •om. 3. Lib. 2. cap. 1. Thes. 5. (consonant to the Judgment of the O•thoac• ) viz. we acknowledge indeed Spiritual regeneration to be necessary to the solid participation of the promises; but that that Regeneration is part of the Promises, and belongs in a singular ⟨image 5⟩manner to the Children of Believers, the very form of the Covenant manifestly declares. See likewise Chamier largely replying for us against Bellarmine, Stapleton, and others of the Papists. Pa•stra•. tom. 4 lib. 5. cap. 10. parag. 24, 25, 26, 27, &c:
2. Touching the perverse and Ca•abaptistic•ll intent and meaning of that expression of the Papists, viz. That Spirituall promises d•scend to us not by carnall generation (as they call it: the very Phrase of many Anabaptists, used in a way of de•ision of the Grace of God) but by Spirituall R•generation &c. (they are the w•rds of Bellarmine and other P•pists, cted & confuted by Ams & others) read Ames his Answer thereto, B Ener. om. 3. Lib. 2. cap.