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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.
1If infants be in the Covenant of grace by virtue of their birth from believing parents, then such infants are borne in a saving state of grace, and were never out of the same. Which doctrine maketh void many heavenly and divine truths, which speak to the contrary: which lay all under sin and curse, till Christ by his blood redeem them, and by his heavenly voice call them, and by his Spirit beget them unto a lively hope: who are therefore said to be borne again from above. For none can be under grace, and under wrath and curse at one and the same time, in the outward dispensation of the same.
1If infants be in the Covenant of grace by vertue of their birth from believing parents, then such infants are borne in a saving state of grace, and were never out of the same. Which doctrine maketh void many heavenly and divine truths, which speake to the contrary: which lay all under sinne and curse, till Christ by his blood redeeme them, and by his heavenly voice call them, and by his Spirit beget them unto a lively hope: who are therefore said to bee borne againe from above. For none can be under grace, and under wrath and curse at one and the same time, in the outward dispensation of the same.
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1It doth not follow that if infants be in the Covenant of grace by virtue of their birth from believing parents, then such infants are borne in a saving state of grace. For the Covenant of grace doth not give saving grace to all that are in the Covenant, but only to the elect: Nor doth it give saving grace to them always in their birth, but in the season wherein the Lord in his purpose of election had fore-appointed to give it to the children whom God hath not elected. The Covenant of grace doth not give them saving grace at all, but only offereth it, and sealeth what it offereth.