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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. XVIII.
The second exception against our Baptism received in England, 1is taken from the false ground upon which it is administered, as the former was from the false power, by which it is administered. Now that false ground upon which it is administered, is the faith and profession not of the Parents (whose Covenant you are wont to stand upon) but of the God-fathers and God-mothers, whose Covenant doth not reach by any Institution of God to their gossips children, whatsoever it may do to their own.
THe second exception against our Baptisme received in England, 1is taken from the false ground upon which it is administred, as the former was from the false power, by which it is administred. Now that false ground upon which it is administred, is the faith and profession not of the Parents (whose Covenant you are wont to stand upon) but of the God-fathers and God-mothers, whose Covenant doth not reach by any Institution of God to their gossips children, whatsoever it may doe to their owne.
- 1Sylvester.Silvester.
I do willingly acknowledge, where the Parents of the baptized are still living, and do intend to educate the children themselves,1 there the use of God-fathers and God-mothers (as they call them) in Baptism (though it be ancient) yet it is a sinful superaddition to the institution. But when the Parents are dead or absent, and the child is to be brought up in the house of a Christian friend and brother, the Covenant of such a Christian brother extendeth to all that are borne in his house and bought with his money. And hi profession before the Church to bring up the child committed to him, in the way of the Covenant of Grace, it is as acceptabl for the receiving of the child to Baptism, as the Covenant