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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.
But take all this for granted, and yet it reacheth not near the Apostles Words and discourse in this chapter who proveth that the Jews shall be called in again to Faith and Holiness, by reason of their relation as branches to their root. Which though they be broken off from it by their enmity against the the Gospel; yet they still belong to it, according to the Election of God, and according to his love which by his everlasting Covenant he bare and promised to bear to their Fathers and to their seed after them throughout all Generations.
But take all this for granted, and yet it reacheth not neare the Apostles Words and discourse in this chapter who proveth that the Iews shall be called in againe to Faith and Holinesse, by reason of their relation as branches to their root. Which though they be broken off from it by their enmity against the the Gospell; yet they still belong to it, according to the Election of God, and according to his love which by his everlasting Covenant he bare and promised to beare to their Fathers and to their seed after them throughout all Generations.
To proceed then. As your discourse of the root hath not hitherto proved Christ to be the root: So neither will your discourse of the Branches prove either Christ to be the root, or the Branches, to be such, and can be no other then such as do subsist and grow in Christ only by Faith. For 1. It hath been (as I conceive) cleared already, that Christ is not the root here meant by the Apostle: 2. If the branches be such, and can be no other but such, as do subsist and grow in Christ only by Faith, how then came it to pass, that the branches were ⟨p. 100⟩broken off? can such as do subsist in Christ (as in a root) only by Faith, can they be broken off? What is then become of Christs prayer for all that do, or shall believe on him? Joh. 17.20, 21, 22, 23, 24.
To proceede then. As your discourse of the roote hath not hitherto proved Christ to be the roote: So neither will your discourse of the Branches prove either Christ to be the root, or the Branches, to be such, and can be no other then such as doe subsist and grow in Christ onely by Faith. For 1. It hath beene (as I conceive) cleared already, that Christ is not the roote here meant by the Apostle: 2. If the branches be such, and can be no other but such, as doe subsist and grow in Christ onely by Faith, how then came it to passe, that the branches were