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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. Scripture Example lead's us, to what is contrary to this Felon•• spoken of: witness, under the old-Testament, Ishmael's being cast ⟨image 9⟩out, by Abraham who was the chief Officer in that family Church▪ So the incestuous person under the New-Testament is not felo de s• though guilty of such a sin as was not so much as named among the Ge••iles, 1 Cor. 5.1. but there is a Church act intervening his sin and the cessation of his Memberly-Communion with that Church, viz a delivering him [[Greek or Hebrew] such a one] unto Satan. Hence as the Church of Ephesus is commended for not bearing with them which are evil, Rev. 2.2. so the Church of Th•a•ira is rebuked for suffering that woman Jezebel, verse. 20.
2. Scripture Example lead's us, to what is contrary to this Felon•• spoken of: witness, under the old-Testament, Ishmael's being cast ⟨image 9⟩out, by Abraham who was the chief Officer in that family Church▪ So the incestuous person under the New-Testament is not felo de s• though guilty of such a sin as was not so much as named among the Ge••iles, 1 Cor. 5.1. but there is a Church act intervening his sin and the cessation of his Memberly-Communion with that Church, viz a delivering him [〈non-Latin alphabet〉 such a one] unto Satan. Hence as the Church of Ephesus is commended for not bearing with them which are evill,