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A body of divinity, or, The sum and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded,…A body of divinitie, or, The summe and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded,…
A body of divinity, or, The sum and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded, and explained, by way of question and answer : methodically and familiarly handled / composed long since by James Usher B. of Armagh, and at the earnest desires of divers godly Christians now printed and published ; whereunto is adjoined a tract, entitled Immanuel, or, The mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God heretofore written [sic] and published by the same author.A body of divinitie, or, The summe and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded, and explained, by way of question and answer : methodically and familiarly handled / composed long since by James Vsher B. of Armagh, and at the earnest desires of divers godly Christians now printed and published ; whereunto is adjoyned a tract, intituled Immanvel, or, The mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God heretofore writen [sic] and published by the same authour.
London: printed by M.F. for Tho. Downes and Geo. Badger, 1645
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Some there are that stand strictly for the particular action of diving or dipping the baptized under water, as the only action which the institution of this Sacrament will bear, and our Church allows no other, except in case of the child's weakness, and there is expressed in our Saviours baptism, both his descending into the water and rising up: so that some think our common sprinkling to be (through ease and tenderness) a stretching the liberty of the Church further then either the Church would, or the symbolicalness of the outward sign with the thing signified can safely admit, it typifying our spiritual burial and resurrection, Rom. 6. 8.
Some there are that stand strictly for the particular action of diving or dipping the baptized under water, as the onely action which the institution of this Sacrament will bear, and our Church allows no other, except in case of the childes weaknesse, and there is exprest in our Saviours baptisme, both his descending into the water and rising up: so that some think our common sprinkling to bee (through ease and tendernesse) a stretching the liberty of the Church further then either the Church would, or the symbolicalnesse of the outward sign with the thing signified can safely admit, it typifying our spirituall buriall and resurrection, Rom. 6. 8.
Others conceive the action of sprinkling of water upon the face of the baptized very warrantable, especially in young children to whom further wetting may be dangerous, and the grounds are these:
Others conceive the action of sprinkling of water upon the face of the baptized very warrantable, especially in young children to whom further wetting may bee dangerous, and the grounds are these: