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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
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CHAP. XII.
A Ninth and last Argument against the Baptism of Infants is, that the doctrine thereof opposeth directly the express word of God, by teaching that Infants are in the Covenant of grace being borne of believing parents, and so an holy seed, by virtue of which they have right to Baptism as a Privilege of Grace, against which the Holy Ghost affirms, that all are conceived in sin, brought forth in iniquity, and so by nature the children of wrath and under curse, and except they be borne again from above, they cannot see the Kingdom of God, Psal. 51.5. Ephes. 2.1, 2, 3. Rom. 3.9. Gal. 3.10.13, 14. John 3.3.5, 6. Joh 1.12, 13. Here man saith, that Infants are clean and holy in and from the womb, and so are subjects of grace and glory: but God saith, that all Infants, one as well as another, are first in sin and unholy, and so are subjects of wrath, until the second birth make the difference, Joh. 3.5, 6. And now which to believe, let the upright to God judge.
A Ninth and last Argument against the Baptisme of Infants is, that the doctrine thereof opposeth directly the expresse word of God, by teaching that Infants are in the Covenant of grace being borne of beleeving parents, and so an holy seed, by vertue of which they have right to Baptisme as a Priviledge of Grace, against which the Holy Ghost affirmes, that all are conceived in sinne, brought forth in iniquity, and so by nature the children of wrath and under curse, and except they bee borne againe from above, they cannot see the Kingdome of God,