A80622:210
The grounds and ends of the baptism of the children of the faithful. Opened…The grounds and ends of the baptisme of the children of the faithfull. Opened…
The grounds and ends of the baptism of the children of the faithful. Opened in a familiar discourse by way of a dialogue, or brotherly conference. / By the learned and faithful minister of Christ, John Cotton, teacher of the Church of Boston in New-England.The grounds and ends of the baptisme of the children of the faithfull. Opened in a familiar discourse by way of a dialogue, or brotherly conference. / By the learned and faithfull minister of Christ, John Cotton, teacher of the Church of Boston in New-England.
London: printed by R.C. for Andrew Crooke, 1646
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.
1Now first in Christ by faith, and then to the Covenant and privileges thereof, Gal. 3.29. None by the Gospel are approved to be the seed of Abraham, but only such as walk in the steps of his faith. For as none invisibly before God are by him approved at all to have right to any privileges of grace, but only as he looketh upon them in his Son: no more are there any before man visibly to be approved of, so as to have right to the same, but as they appear to be in Christ, by some effect of faith declaring the same. And so much the more, in that God excludeth all from his holy Covenant, so as to have right in the outward dispensation thereof, but only such as believe, Rom. 11.20. Heb. 3.18. & 4.1, 2, 3. & 11.5, 6. Rom. 9.7, 8. Gal. 3.22, 26, 29.
1Now first in Christ by faith, and then to the Covenant and priviledges thereof, Gal. 3.29. None by the Gospel are approved to be the seed of Abraham, but onely such as walke in the steps of his faith. For as none invisibly before God are by him approved at all to have right to any priviledges of grace, but onely as he looketh upon them in his Son: no more are there any before man visibly to be approved of, so as to have right to the same, but as they appeare to be in Christ, by some effect of faith declaring the same. And so much the more, in that God excludeth all from his holy Covenant, so as to have right in the outward dispensation thereof, but onely such as believe, Rom. 11.20. Heb. 3.18