A80622:469
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.
5. It is one thing to speak of the members of the Church universally; another thing to speak of them all indefinitely; all of them, (that is, the body of them, or the greater part of them) may be said to be written in the Lambs book of life, to be all righteous, (Isa. 60.21.) to have their sins forgiven, and not to complain of any sickness, Isa. 33.21. But how can this be understood universally of all the members of the Church at all times?
5. It is one thing to speake of the members of the Church universally; another thing to speake of them all indefinitely; all of them, (that is, the body of them, or the greater part of them) may be said to be written in the Lambs booke of life, to bee all righteous, (Isa. 60.21.) to have their sinnes forgiven, and not to complaine of any sicknesse, Isa. 33.21. But how can this bee understood universally of all the members of the Church at all times?
6. It is one thing to speak of the condition, in which God approveth Church-members; another thing to speak of the condition, in which God approveth the receiving of Church-members. God never approved the condition of Judas in his Apostleship, ⟨p. 135⟩or in his Church-membership; and yet he approved the receiving of him into both.
6. It is one thing to speake of the condition, in which God approveth Church-members; another thing to speak of the condition, in which God approveth the receiving of Church-members. God never approved the condition of Judas in his Apostleship, ⟨p. 135⟩