A65285:2808
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Obj. The Party to be Baptized is to be engaged to God; but how can the Child engage?
Obj. The Party to be Baptiz'd is to be engag'd to God; but how can the Child engage?
Answ. The Parents can engage for it, which God is pleased to accept as equivalent to the Child's Personal engaging.
Answ. The Parents can engage for it, which God is pleased to accept as equivalent to the Childs Personal engaging.
Obj. 3. If Baptism comes in the room of Circumcision, only the Males were Circumcised, Gen. 17.30. Then, what Warrant is there for Baptizing Females?
Answ. The Females were included, and were virtually Circumcised in the Males. What is done to the Head, is done to the Body; the Man therefore being the Head of the Woman, 1 Cor. 11.3. what was done to the Male Sex, was interpretatively done to the Female. Having Answered these Objections, I come now to prove by Argument Infant-Baptism.