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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
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Secondly, to your second, the answer is as easie. For,
1. We do not say, that the children of believers are holy with that holiness which accompanieth regeneration, and mortifieth original corruption, but only with that holiness whereby they are admitted to the means of grace, with promise of efficacy to the elect seed, and offers thereof to the rest, so far as to leave them without excuse.
1. We doe not say, that the children of believers are holy with that holinesse which accompanyeth regeneration, and mortifieth originall corruption, but onely with that holinesse whereby they are admitted to the meanes of grace, with promise of efficacy to the elect seed, and offers thereof to the rest, so farre as to leave them without excuse.
2. Suppose we did hold (that which is far from us to conceive) that all infants in the Covenant were regenerate, and so holy as well as their believing. Parents, and as far as they; Yet that would not take away the being or remaining of Original sin in them, but only the reigning of it. For do you think that the being of Original sin is taken away from regenerate believers? We for our part believe what we have cause to groan under, that Original sin remaineth in a believer; and though it be pardoned and in some measure mortified, yet it is not utterly destroyed till death.
2. Suppose we did hold (that which is farre from us to conceive) that all infants in the Covenant were regenerate, and so holy as well as their beleeving. Parents, and as farre as they; Yet that would not take away the being or remaining of Originall sinne in them, but onely the reigning of it. For doe you thinke that the being of Originall sin is taken away from regenerate believers? We for our part believe what we have cause to grone under, that Originall sin remaineth in a believer; and though it be pardoned and in some measure mortified, yet it is not utterly destroyed till death.