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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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CHEMNITIVS, that eminent light in the Church of God in those elaborate works of his against the Papists (Exam: part 2. can: 14. de Baptismo) hath this memorable saying, viz.
CHEMNITIVS, that eminent light in the Church of God in those elaborate workes of his against the Papists (Exam: part 2. can: 14. de Baptismo) hath this memorable saying, viz.
IT is not to be left free, to the choice of those who have been Baptized in Infancy, when they come to be Adult, whether or no they will have that confirmed, which was done in their Baptism; as though the Covenant of grace, & Testament of peace, which is offered and sealed up to little Children in Baptism, should then first begin to be established, when the consent of their will, when Adult, is added thereunto: for from this wicked foundation, the Anabaptists simply have taken away, and Condemned Paedobaptism; but such Baptized little ones are to be admonished, as they grow up, what a Covenant of Grace, and Testament of peace it is, which God hath entered into with them in Baptism: and by what promise of gratitude they have likewise obliged themselves […] Obedience to God, with the renouncing of the Devil; and they are […] to be exhorted, that they render thanks to God for that wonderful great Benefit, that they abide in that Covenant of peace, and endeavour to fulfil that obligation, by mortifying sin, and setting upon newness of life, and that they do this freely, and sincerely: or if they shall, through unthankfulness, depart from that▪ Covenant, and engagement, that then they repent, and return to the Covenant, and subject themselves again to that stipulated Obedience. But us for them that shall do otherwise, the most severe comminations of the wrath and Indignation of God are to be heaped up, and set before them; unto which [saith he] excommunication is to be added, for these are the weapons of our warfare.