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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.
Neither is it true that you say, that the spiritual branches cannot ⟨p. 101⟩properly be called branches in the Apostles sense, but as they partake of the life and grace of Christ.
Neither is it true that you say, that the spirituall branches cannot ⟨p. 101⟩properly be called branches in the Apostles sense, but as they partake of the life and grace of Christ.
For the Apostle doth not call them spiritual Branches, nor are they all such, unless by spiritual, you mean Metaphorical. But he expressly calleth them natural branches, and such as God did not spare, but cut them off, v. 21. And therefore they did not all of them partake of the grace and life of Christ, but some of them were indeed dead and fruitless.
For the Apostle doth not call them spirituall Branches, nor are they all such, unlesse by spirituall, you mean Metaphoricall. But he expresly calleth them naturall branches, and such as God did not spare, but cut them off, v. 21. And therefore they did not all of them partake of the grace and life of Christ, but some of them were indeed dead and fruitlesse.
But (say you) nature it self teacheth, no man will admit of dead plants to be set in his vineyard, or Grafted into a stock, &c. And so it is with Christ, who cometh not short of Nature: And therefore he admits not of any dead plants to be set in his Vineyard, nor dead members to joined in his mystical Body. Neither took he to himself a compounded body, consisting of living and dead members: And all unbelievers be dead, and all the infants of believers, till they be borne again of the Spirit,