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…

For the information (therefore) of the minds of the weak and stablishing their hearts in this Truth of God, according to the Scriptures, even in the Doctrine of Paedobaptism (a Doctrine of so great concernment, and of so much comfort and encouragement, both to believing parents & their children not in life only but in death; whence it is that they only can be preserved against sorrowing when they fall asleep, as others do, which have no hope) This ensuing Treatise is at the earnest request of many worthy friends to the Author of it (of blessed memory) now published, wherein we may see both; 1. The Membership of the Children of Church-Members proved to be of Divine institution, and likewise 2. (among other things] The continuance of the Membership of those Children, in particular Churches, when they are grown up, even until they are excommunicated, unless there be a dissolution of the person by death, ¹or of the Church-society: So that this latter is not a principle of Innovation, and Apostasy; but as it was the Judgment of the Author of this following Letter (as is therein to be seen and to manifest which was one special end of the Printing thereof) so was it the light which others have held forth, who in their time were Stars not of the smallest magnitude, whom we have here seen sometimes shining with him in Christs right hand, but are now set, and shining with that Sun of righteousness in another World.

For the information (therefore) of the minds of the weak and stablishing their hearts in this Truth of God, according to the Scriptures, even in the Doctrine of P••dobaptisme (a Doctrine of so great concernment, and of so much comfort and incouragement, both to believing parents & their children not in life only but in death; whence it is that they only can be preserved against sorrowing when they fall asleep, as others do, which have no hope) This ensuing Treatise is at the earnest request of many worthy freinds to the Author of it (of blessed memory) now published, wherein we may see both; 1. The Membership of the Children of Church-Members proved to be of Divine institution, and likewise 2. (among other things] The continuance of the Membership of those Children, in particular Churches, when they are grown up, even until they are excōmunicated, unless there be a dissolution of the person by death, ¹or of the Church-society: So that this latter is not a principle of Innovation, and Apostacy; but as it was the Judgment of the Author of this following Letter (as is therein to be seen and to manifest which was one speciall end of the Printing thereof) so was it the light which others have held forth, who in their time were Stars not of the smallest magnitude, whom we have here seen sometimes shining with him in Christs right hand, but are now set, and shining with that Sun of righteousness in another World.