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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.
I will not examine the terms of your Distinction of a threefold passive subject (though I would not have you taken with it) which is indeed, neither Natural, nor Artificial, nor spiritual. For when you make the first sort of a passive subject, a thing uncapable, as is a stone: I might demand whether you mean uncapable lawfully, or unlawfully. If you mean a stone is uncapable lawfully, so you conceive children to be uncapable likewise, and all they upon whom Baptism is forced. And then the first part of your distinction, is all one with your second part. And a good distinction cannot admit such confusion. If you mean a stone is uncapable of Baptism unlawfully, you know the contrary. For the Papists do baptize their Fonts and Altars (which are but stones) as well as their Bells, which are not more lawfully capable of Baptism then stones be.
I will not examine the termes of your Distinction of a threefold passive subject (though I would not have you taken with it) which is indeed, neither Naturall, nor Artificiall, nor spirituall. For when you make the first sort of a passive subject, a thing uncapable, as is a stone: I might demand whether you mean uncapable lawfully, or unlawfully. If you mean a stone is uncapable lawfully, so you conceive children to bee uncapable likewise, and all they upon whom Baptisme is forced. And then the first part of your distinction, is all one with your second part. And a good distinction cannot admit such confusion. If you mean a stone is uncapable of Baptisme unlawfully, you know the contrary. For the Papists doe baptize their Fonts and Altars (which are but stones) as well as their Bells, which are not more lawfully capable of Baptisme then stones bee.
Again, when you make your second sort of your passive subject of Baptism, to be a forced subject, and Infant• to be such a forced subject, as who do oppose it to the uttermost ability.
Again, when you make your second sort of your passive subject of Baptisme, to bee a forced subject, and Infant• to bee such a forced subject, as who doe oppose it to the uttermost ability.