A65285:2801
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Resp. Tho' there is not the Word Infant-Baptism in Scripture, yet there is the Thing. There is not mention made in Scripture of Women's receiving the Sacrament; but who doubts but the Command, Take, Eat, this is my Body, concerns them? Doth not their Faith need strengthening as well as others? So the Word Trinity is not to be found in Scripture, but there is that which is equivalent: 1 John 5.7. There are three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these Three are One. So tho' the Word Infant-Baptism is not mentioned in Scripture, yet the Practice of Baptizing Infants may be drawn out of Scripture by undeniable consequence.
Resp. Tho' there is not the Word Infant-Baptism in Scripture, yet there is the Thing. There is not mention made in Scripture of Womens receiving the Sacrament; but who doubts but the Command, Take, Eat, this is my Body, concerns them? Doth not their Faith need strengthening as well as others? So the Word Trinity is not to be found in Scripture, but there is that which is equivalent: 1 Iohn 5.7. There are three that bear record in Heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these Three are One. So tho' the Word Infant-Baptism is not mentioned in Scripture, yet the Practice of Baptizing Infants may be drawn out of Scripture by undeniable consequence.
Quest. How is that proved?
Answ. The Scripture mentions whole Families Baptized: As the Household of Lydia, Crispus, and the Jailer. Acts 16.33. He was baptized, he and all his. Wherein we must rationally imagine that there were some little Children. If it be said, there is no mention there made of Children. I Answer, Neither are Servants named; yet it cannot be supposed but that in so great a Family there were some Servants.