N00045:281
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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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.
2. You think that Visible personal Faith only, makes the Church, and members or it; which ••in error, as may appear from many things already […]: for Children may be in Gods account professors or […] Faith parentally, as well as personally […] the profession of their parents, as well as in their own; And sense you shall had, that the Covenant God entered into with the Parents of Church-members personally, the Children are said, to have that Covenant […] with them many hundred years after; See for this purpose, among hundreds, their […]. Scriptures, […] 2. 5. In Haggai time God is •id to make a Covenant with them th•• then they came […] of Egypt (which was a•t personally, but parentally) so Ha•es 12. 4, 5. when •od entered into Covenant with Jacob at Bethel; God is said to speak […], who lived many years after; and •ence the Children many years […], challenge Gods Covenant with them, which was made with their Fathers for them, […] 7. 19, 20. Hence also […] Children are said to co•• to Christ (who were not able to […]) but only were brought in the arms of others to Christ. It's […] thing among […], that a Father •ay receive a gift, or Legacy given to him, and his heirs, and he, and his heirs are bound […] perform the condition of the Covenant, and promise by which it is conveyed, and that the Child doth this in his Father.
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