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Another essay for investigation of the truth, in answer to two questions, concerning I.…
Another essay for investigation of the truth, in answer to two questions, concerning I. The subject of baptism. II. The consociation of churches. / By John Davenport B. of D. and Pastor of the Church of Christ, at New-Haven, in New-England. ; [Twenty-four lines of quotations]
printed by Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson, 1663
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.
Whether they have Letters of Recommendation from the Church whence they come, whereby that Church desireth this fruit of Communion with the Church where they would have their children baptized, or not? That being the orderly way of exercising Communion among Churches, Rom. 16.1,2. 2 Cor. 3. 1. 3 Joh. ver.9,12. and, Whether the Infant must be baptized as a Member (in and by his Parents covenanting for him) of that Church, whence his Parents come, o• as a Member of the Church where he is baptized, and where the Parent is not a Member, but only hath this benefit of the Communion of Churches, that himself is admitted to the Lords Supper, pro tempore, and his children to Baptism in a transient way? When these and the like Questions are Answered, I shall better know what to say to the first part of the Proposition, then now I do. In the mean time, to the first Proof thereof I have already spoken in my Replies to Propos. 1. & 2. & 5. & 8.
Whether they have Letters of Recommendation from the Church whence they come, whereby that Church desireth this fruit of Communion with the Church where they would have their children baptized, or not? That being the orderly way of exercising Communion among Churches, Rom. 16.1,2. 2 Cor. 3. 1. 3 Joh. ver.9,12. and, Whether the Infant must be baptized as a Member (in and by his Parents covevenanting for him) of that Church, whence his Parents come, o• as a Member of the Church where he is baptized, and where the Parent is not a Member, but onely hath this benefit of the Communion of Churches, that himself is admitted to the Lords Supper, pro tempore, and his children to Baptism in a transient way? When these and the like Questions are Answered, I shall better know what to say to the first part of the Proposition, then now I do. In the mean time, to the first Proof thereof I have already spoken in my Replies to Propos. 1. & 2. & 5. & 8.