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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.
It is readily granted, and needed no proof, that the Jews of old enjoyed union and communion with Christ in the Mosaical Ordinances of the Old Testament (whereof some were typical, and some moral.) And it is a confessed truth also, that God changed the Order and manner of that Worship (but not the matter) in the New Testament. But that the Jews were broken off for their opposing and rejecting that new order, ⟨p. 99⟩is not safely spoken. For they were broken off for resisting and opposing the righteousness of Faith in Christ Jesus. Rom. 10.3. which was no new order brought in by Christ in the New Testament, but was the principal matter of all their Typical and Mosaical Worship, which your self confess was not changed. Besides it cannot be denied, That the faithful and their seed was the subject matter of the Church, and so part of the Order of the Worship in the Old Testament. And this was neither Mosaical nor Typical, but before both. And if the matter of the worship be not changed (though the manner be) then as the faithful and their (seed whether Jews or proselyte Gentiles) were the subject matter of the Church, and a Moral part of church order of old, then are they so still, and neither of them to be excluded.
It is readily granted, and needed no proofe, that the Jewes of old enjoyed union and communion with Christ in the Mosaicall Ordinances of the Old Testament (whereof some were typicall, and some morall.) And it is a confessed truth also, that God changed the Order and manner of that Worship (but not the matter) in the New Testament. But that the Jewes were broken off for their opposing and rejecting that new order, ⟨p. 99⟩is not safely spoken. For they were broken off for resisting and opposing the righteousnesse of Faith in Christ Iesus. Rom. 10.3. which was no new order brought in by Christ in the New Testament, but was the principall matter of all their Typicall and Mosaicall Worship, which your selfe confesse was not changed. Besides it cannot be denyed, That the faithfull and their seede was the subject matter of the Church, and so part of the Order of the Worship in the Old Testament. And this was neither Mosaicall nor Typicall, but before both. And if the matter of the worship bee not changed (though the manner be) then as the faithfull and their (seede whether Iews or proselyte Gentiles) were the subject matter of the Church, and a Morall part of church order of old, then are they so still, and neither of them to be excluded.