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A catechism or brief instruction in the principles and grounds of the true Christian…A catechisme or briefe instruction in the principles and grounds of the true Christian…
A catechism or brief instruction in the principles and grounds of the true Christian religion With a short treatise premised concerning the profity and necessity of catechizing.A catechisme or briefe instruction in the principles and grounds of the true Christian religion With a short treatise premised concerning the profity and necessitie of catechizing.
London: printed by Edward Griffin for Henry Fetherstone, 1617London: printed by Edvvard Griffin for Henry Fetherstone, 1617
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.
Q. Why then doth the holy Ghost call Baptism, the washing away of sins, and the washing of the new-birth?
Q. Why then doth the holy Ghost call Baptisme, the washing away of sins, and the washing of the new-birth?
A. God speaketh this not only to teach us, that as the filth bodily is cleansed by water, so our souls are by the blood and Spirit of Christ, but also to ⟨p. 23⟩assure us, by this divine pledge, that we are as verily washed, from our sins inwardly, as we are outwardly by watery.
A. God speaketh this not onely to teach vs, that as the filth bodily is cleansed by water, so our soules are by the bloud and Spirit of Christ, but also to ⟨p. 23⟩assure vs, by this diuine pledge, that we are as verilie washed, from our sins inwardlie, as wee are outwardly by watery.
- y1 Pet: 3: 21.
Q. Are infants also to be baptised?