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Decennium luctuosum An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath…
Decennium luctuosum An history of remarkable occurrences, in the long war, which New-England hath had with the Indian salvages, from the year, 1688. To the year 1698. Faithfully composed and improved. [One line of quotation in Latin]
printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1699
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Quaker. How dost thou prove, that Jesus Christ commanded Baptism with Water?
Minister. I know, you must have the word, Water, or nothing will content you. Else I would have urged, for a Sufficient proof, our Lords Commanding His Ministers, to Baptise men, [Matth. 28.19.] This Command Expresses our Duty. 'Tis not our Duty to Baptise men with the Holy Spirit. This belongs not unto Us, but unto Him, who's that Holy Spirit is. You will not say, we Sin, if we don't Baptise the Disciples in all Nations, with the Holy Spirit. So then, it must be a Baptism with Water, which is there Commanded by our Lord. But, as I said, you must have the word, Water; & you shall have it. The Apostle Peter said,—
Quaker. The Apostle Peter! The Apostle Peter! Thou wast to prove that Jesus Christ Commanded Baptism with Water. And now, Thou art come to the Apostle Peter!
Minister. Stay, Friend; not so fast! Will you say then, that the Commandments brought by the Apostle Peter, as the Commandments of Jesus Christ, are not the Commandments of Jesus Christ? But however, I'll mend the Expression,— The Spirit of Jesus Christ in the Apostle Peter,