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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.
But I pray you understand first, we never made baptism the corner stone of the Lords house, which is the peculiar prerogative of Christ himself; Christ only is the corner stone.
But I pray you understand first, we never made baptisme the corner stone of the Lords house, which is the peculiar prerogative of Christ himselfe; Christ onely is the corner stone.
Secondly, when we make (I mean acknowledge the Baptism of believers and of their seed, a true and precious ordinance of Christ, and one of the holy vessels of his Church, we do not grant unto Antichrist this authority, to lay this stone in his foundation; unless himself were first invested, with a lawful calling to baptize; and unless those whom he did baptize were believers, and the seed of believers. Our baptizing of believers and their seed, do not grant him leave to baptize idolaters and their seed.
Secondly, when we make (I meane acknowledge the Baptism of believers and of their seed, a true and precious ordinance of Christ, and one of the holy vessels of his Church, wee doe not grant unto Antichrist this authority, to lay this stone in his foundation; unlesse himself were first invested, with a lawfull calling to baptize; and unlesse those whom he did baptize were believers, and the seed of believers. Our baptizing of believers and their seed, do not grant him leave to baptize idolaters and their seed.
If you say, but we take in such to be members of our Church, who have been baptized in his Church (or at least their fathers before them) and so take a stone out of the Temple of Babel, to lay in the foundation of Zion, contrary to the Word of the Lord, Jer. 51.26.