A80622:523
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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1I have already acquainted you with the sum of those exceptions, which I have met withal, against all the Arguments which you have alleged for the grounding of the Baptism of Infants upon any word of Commandment or Institution from Christ and his Apostles. Only one exception further cometh to my mind against your third Argument, taken from the Analogy of Circumcision and Baptism.
1I have already acquainted you with the summe of those exceptions, which I have met withall, against all the Arguments which you have alledged for the grounding of the Baptisme of Infants upon any word of Commandement or Institution from Christ and his Apostles. Onely one exception further commeth to my minde against your third Argument, taken from the Analogy of Circumcision and Baptisme.
- 1Sylvester.Silvester.
Suppose that the Covenant of God with Abraham, wherein he promiseth to be a God to him and his seed do continue to believers and our seed now in the days of the New Testament: Suppose also that Baptism do succeed Circumcision: yet as it was not the promise of God to Abraham that was a sufficient ground of Circumcision, but Gods word of Commandment, (or else it would have been sin to Abraham, to have circumcised his seed:) so neither is it the promise and Covenant of God to believers, to be a God to us, and our seed, that can be a sufficient ground to us of baptizing our Infants.
Suppose that the Covenant of God with Abraham, wherein hee promiseth to bee a God to him and his seed doe continue to beleevers and our seed now in the dayes of the New Testament: Suppose also that Baptisme doe succeed Circumcision: yet as it was not the promise of God to Abraham that was a sufficient ground of Circumcision, but Gods word of Commandement, (or else it would have been sin to Abraham, to have circumcised his seed:) so neither is it the promise and Covenant of God to beleevers, to bee a God to us, and our seed, that can bee a sufficient ground to us of baptizing our Infants.