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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.
If you mean never were any so brought to Christ, to wit, in the Arms of their Parents. It is true we never read of any other in the Gospels, brought to Christ in the Arms of their Parents at all, neither for bodily cures, neither for any temporal or spiritual blessing. But what is that to the purpose? that will not argue that these Infants were only brought for bodily Cure. If you mean none were brought at all but for bodily cures, what mean you then by so brought? It is true the Palsy man was brought by four men in a Couch for a bodily cure, Mark. 2. but Christ blessed him not only with a temporal, but a spiritual cure in the pardon of his sins, Mark. 2.5. which was more then they came for; why do you therefore deny the like spiritual blessing the these Infants upon this ground, because their Parents come for no more, unless you think, they had no sin to be pardoned? But if none were brought to Christ for spiritual blessings besides these Infants, the greater was the Faith of these Parents: and the greater was the sin of others.
If you meane never were any so brought to Christ, to wit, in the Armes of their Parents. It is true we never read of any other in the Gospells, brought to Christ in the Armes of their Parents at all, neither for bodily cures, neither for any temporall or spirituall blessing. But what is that to the purpose? that will not argue that these Infants were onely brought for bodily Cure. If you meane none were brought at all but for bodily cures, what meane you then by so brought? It is true the Palsey man was brought by foure men in a Couch for a bodily cure, Mark. 2. but Christ blessed him not onely with a temprall, but a spirituall cure in the pardon of his sinnes, Mark. 2.5. which was more then they came for; why do you therefore deny the like spiritual blessing the these Infants upon this ground, because their Parents come for no more, unlesse you think, they had no sinne to be pardoned? But if none were brought to Christ for spirituall blessings besides these Infants, the greater was the Faith of these Parents: and the greater was the sinne of others.