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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.
The latter proposition, That all the children of the Faithful (in which is all one, all the children of the Church, for the ⟨p. 6⟩Church is a Congregation of the faithful) that they are all of them Disciples, may appear by the Testimony of the Prophet Isaiah: who speaking of the times of the Church in the New Testament, All thy children (saith he) shall be taught of God, Isaiah 54.13. and if they be taught of God, then are they Disciples, for that is the meaning of the word Disciples. Disciples are taught or learnt of God. Do not put me off with that Evasion; That the Promise is made not to the children of the visible Church, but of the Invisible: For look what promises are made to the Invisible Church, they are for their sakes offered to all the Members of the Visible Churches, whereof the lively Members are the chief.
The latter proposition, That all the children of the Faithfull (in which is all one, all the children of the Church, for the ⟨p. 6⟩Church is a Congregation of the faithfull) that they are all of them Disciples, may appeare by the Testimony of the Prophet Esay: who speaking of the times of the Church in the New Testament, All thy children (saith he) shall be taught of God, Esay 54.13. and if they be taught of God, then are they Disciples, for that is the meaning of the word Disciples. Disciples are taught or learnt of God. Doe not put me off with that Evasion; That the Promise is made not to the children of the visible Church, but of the Invisible: For looke what promises are made to the Invisible Church, they are for their sakes offered to all the Members of the Visible Churches, whereof the lively Members are the chiefe.
By the children in Isaiah may be meant, not Infants, but men of years, unto whom the whole Church may be counted a Mother, and they to her, as children.
By the children in Esay may be meant, not Infants, but men of yeares, unto whom the whole Church may be counted a Mother, and they to her, as children.