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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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Moreover, as to the comparison in Scripture made between the Sacraments of the old and new Testament, that in 1 Cor. 10.1—4. (among several other Scriptures) is cited by Ames against Bellarmine where the Apostle speak's of our Fathers being Baptized in the Sea &c: thereby intimating our Sacraments to be the same for substance with theirs: or Sacramental signs and seals of one and the same spiritual grace, so that the Covenant-mercies, or promises of spiritual good are the same to us as to them: Bellarmine opposeth this [as doth the Anabaptist] The Fathers [saith he] are said to eat the same meat not because ours and theirs was the same, but because they themselves, all of them did eat the same: but that meat and drink were not sacraments; they had no promise annexed &c: Bell• enerv. tom. 3. l. 1. c. 4. th. 10. and Ham. panstrat. tom. 4. l. 3. c. 2.
Moreover, as to the comparison in Scripture made between the Sacraments of the old and new Testament, that in 1 Cor. 10.1—4. (among several other Scriptures) is cited by Ames against Bellarmine where the Apostle speake's of our Fathers being Baptized in the Sea &c: thereby intimating our Sacraments to be the same for substance with theirs: or Sacramental signes and seales of one and the same sqiritual grace, so that the Covenant-mercies, or promises of spiritual good are the same to us as to them: Bellarmine opposeth this [as doth the Anabaptist] The Fathers [saith he] are said to eat the same meat not because ours and theirs was the same, but because they themselves, all of them did eat the same: but that meat and drinke were not sacraments; they had no promise anexed &c: Bell• enerv. tom. 3. l. 1. c. 4. th. 10. and Cham. panstrat. tom. 4. l. 3. c. 2.