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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
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2. Touching the perverse and Catabaptisticall intent and meaning of that expression of the Papists, viz. That Spiritual promises descend to us not by carnal generation (as they call it the very Phrase of many Anabaptists, used in a way of derision of the Grace of God) but by Spiritual Regeneration &c. (they are the words of Bellarmine and oath Papists, cited & confuted by Ames & others) read Ames his Answer thereto, Bel. Ever. tom. 3. Lib. 2. cap. 1. Thes. 5. (consonant to the Judgment of the Orthodox) viz. we acknowledge indeed Spiritual regeneration to be necessary to the solid participation of the promises; but that that Regeneration is part of the Promises, and belongs in a singular ⟨image ?⟩manner to the Children of Believers, the very form• of the Covenant manifestly declares. See likewise Chamier largely replying for us against Bellarmine, Stapleton, and others of the Papists▪ Pa• strat. tom.4. lib 5. cap. 10. parag. 24, 25, 26, 27, &c:
2. Touching the perverse and Catabaptisticall intent and meaning of that expression of the Papists, viz. That Spirituall promises descend to us not by carnall generation (as they call it the very Phrase of many Anabaptists, used in a way of derision of the Grace of God) but by Spirituall Regeneration &c. (they are the words of Bellarmine and othe Papists, cited & confuted by Ames & others) read Ames his Answer thereto, Bel. Ener. tom. 3. Lib. 2. cap. 1. Thes. 5. (consonant to the Judgment of the Orthodox) viz. we acknowledg indeed Spirituall regeneration to be necessary to the solid participation of the promises; but that that Regeneration is part of the Promises, and belongs in a singular ⟨image ?⟩manner to the Children of Believers, the very form• of the Covenant manifestly declares. Seelikewise Chamier largely replying for us against Bellarmine, Stapleton, and others of the Papists▪ Pa strat. tom.4. lib 5. cap. 10. parag. 24, 25, 26, 27, &c: