N00045:13
The church-membership of children, and their right to baptism, according to that holy and…The church-membership of children, and their right to baptisme, according to that holy and…
The church-membership of children, and their right to baptism, according to that holy and everlasting covenant of God, established between himself, and the faithful and their seed after them, in their generations: cleared up in a letter, sent unto a worthy friend of the author, and many years ago written touching that subject; / by Thomas Shepard, sometimes Pastor of the Church of Christ at Cambridge in New-England. ; Published at the earnest request of many: for the consolidation and encouragement [sic], both of parents and children in the Lord. ; [Twelve lines of Scripture texts]The church-membership of children, and their right to baptisme, according to that holy and everlasting covenant of God, established between himself, and the faithfull and their seed after them, in their generations: cleared up in a letter, sent unto a worthy friend of the author, and many yeares agoe written touching that subject; / by Thomas Shepard, sometimes Pastor of the Church of Christ at Cambridg in New-England. ; Published at the earnest request of many: for the consolidation and encouragemenr [sic], both of parents and children in the Lord. ; [Twelve lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Samuel Green, 1663
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.
CHEMNIT•US, that eminent light in the Church of God in those elaborate works of his against the Papists (Exam▪ part 2. can 14. de Baptisme) hath this memorable saying viz. .
CHEMNIT•US, that eminent light in the Church of God in those elaborate workes of his against the Papists (Exam▪ part 2. can 14. de Baptisme) hath this memorable saying viz. .
IT is not to be left free, to the choice of those who have been Baptized […] Infancy, when they come to be Adult, whether or no they will have […] confirmed, which was done in their Baptism; as though the Covenant of grace, & Testament of pea•, which is offered and sealed up to little Children in Baptism, should the• first begin to be established, when the […] of their will, when Adult, is added thereunto: for from […] is wick a •••• tion, the Anabaptists imply have taken away, and Condemned Paedobaptism; but such Baptized little ones are to be admonished as they […] what a Covenant of Grace, and Testament of peace it is, which […] entered into with them in Baptism: and by what promise of grat••• […] have likewise obliged themselves unto Obedience to God, with there […] of the Devil; and they are seriously to be exhorted, that they render […] to God for that wonderful great […], that they abide in that Covenant of peace, and endeavour to fulfil that obligation, by mortifying sin, and […] upon newness of life, and that they do this freely, and sincerely: […] they shall, through unthankfulness, depart from that Covenant, and meant, that then they repent, and return to the Covenant, and subject themselves again to that stipulated Obedience But as for them that shall […] otherwise, the must severe comminations of the […] and I […] to be heap […] up, and set before, them; unto which saith […] communication is to be added, for these are the weapon, of […]