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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 all the evil consequences,1 which you say do unavoidably attend our Doctrine, be all of them as easily avoidable as this, I hope you will see no cause to judge of them, as you do, so unavoidable. For this evil consequence is easily avoided by such as maintain the Baptism of Infants two or three ways.
If all the evill consequences,1 which you say doe unavoidably attend our Doctrine, bee all of them as easily avoidable as this, I hope you will see no cause to judge of them, as you doe, so unavoidable. For this evill consequence is easily avoided by such as maintaine the Baptisme of Infants two or three wayes.
- 1Silvanus.Silvanu•.
1. There be some that will deny that which you call the Major, though indeed it be not the Major of that Syllogism, which your self propound; For that Major was this, If the Covenant of Grace be absolute and stable, then all within the same must be saved. But I will not stick with you upon terms, though they be your own. If you call it a Major, let it go for a Major: But this which you call a Major, there be some who will deny it, and tell you, that all the seed of believers without exception are not in the Covenant of Grace, but the Elect seed only. They will grant you, that Ismael and Esau, and all such Apostates, as do fall off from the Covenant, and grace offered to them, they were never under the Covenant of grace, but of works only. And yet as all the children of the faithful, were circumcised then (Ismael as well as Isaac, Esau as well as Jacob) so ought they to be baptized now. In this case they conceive the Apostles words stretch so far, Gal. 4.29