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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.
First, if this be a truth, then one may be saved by another mans faith. For here by virtue of a believers state in grace all his fruit (that is, his children) partake of the same with him, and so far as he doth, only by virtue of his grace, or state in grace, which is the same: And so by the Fathers faith ⟨p. 124⟩the Children share together with him in that Grace, which his faith instates him in, which is salvation it self.
First, if this be a truth, then one may bee saved by another mans faith. For here by vertue of a believers state in grace all his fruit (that is, his children) partake of the same with him, and so farre as hee doth, onely by vertue of his grace, or state in grace, which is the same: And so by the Fathers faith ⟨p. 124⟩the Children share together with him in that Grace, which his faith instates him in, which is salvation it self.
Secondly, This Doctrine taketh away the being of Original sin; for here they are all holy, and partakers of Grace, until they commit some actual sin, which denieth any Original sin: for that would make them unholy, though they never committed actual sin in their own persons.
Secondly, This Doctrine taketh away the being of Originall sinne; for here they are all holy, and partakers of Grace, untill they commit some actuall sin, which denyeth any Originall sin: for that would make them unholy, though they never committed actuall sin in their own persons.
Thirdly, it layeth a ground of falling out of an estate of grace. For by this Doctrine Esau and Ishmael, and all the Children of Believers are holy, and partakers of the same grace, before they committed actual sin, as