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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.
CHAP. XVI.
1The 4. evil consequence which I have found gathered from the doctrine of the Baptism of Infants, is this, That it makes God the Author of mans believing an untruth, by enjoining him to believe the salvation of such as he himself knows and reveals the contrary, as Ismael, Esau, and but a remnant among the Jews, nay none at all but such as believe, Gen. 17. Gen. 25. Gen. 48. Rom. 9.27. Against which opinion and evils aforesaid, I Argue thus: The Covenant is absolute and saving to all once within the same. But all the personal seed of believers are not saved, Therefore all the seed of believers are not in the Covenant of Grace. The proposition is clear from these Scriptures. Jer. 32.40. Isay 49.21. Jer. 31.3. Joh. 13.1. Mal. 3.6. Joh. 10.28, 29. The assumption from these, Gen. 21.10. with Gal. 4.29, 30. Gen. 25.23. with Rom. 9.11, 12, 13, 27