A80622:89
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.
This doth not excuse your former harsh expression concerning infants, but rather aggravate it with a contradiction to your self:1 for you disputed against it above, as against the rule of truth, to say, That infants were capable of union with Christ, and of justification to life thereby. And sure if they be not capable of union with Christ, how can they be saved without Christ? unless you conceive a salvation reserved by the wisdom and grace of God for infants; which is not only without the word, but expressly contrary to the revealed word of God, Act. 4.12.
This doth not excuse your former harsh expression concerning infants, but rather aggravate it with a contradiction to your selfe:1 for you disputed against it above, as against the rule of truth, to say, That infants were capable of union with Christ, and of justification to life thereby. And sure if they be not capable of union with Christ, how can they bee saved without Christ? unlesse you conceive a salvation reserved by the wisdome and grace of God for infants; which is not onely without the word, but expresly contrary to the revealed word of God, Act. 4.12.
- 1Silvanus.
Again, when you said soon after, that you supposed none would affirm, that infants with reference to their nonage, were subjects capable of election, nor subjects capable of glory, and therefore demanded how they could be capable of grace, how can you now say, you do not so oppose infants, as to exclude them from salvation? Can they be saved, and yet not be capable subjects of glory, nor of grace, nor of union with Christ, nor of justification unto life?