N00045:29
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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3. The Sacraments of the old Law (or Testament saith Bellarmine had no absolute promise of Grace annexed, & the promises annexed to those old Sacraments were fulfilled, although men did not believe. Read Ames against him ibid. • 1. cap. 4. the. 5, 7. Again, the Papists [saith Chemnithold; that God, by the Sacraments of the old Testament, which had eve• the word of promise annexed, did ex•tbite & confer no grace to Believers which [saith he] is manifestly false; Circumcision alone [which, as he showeth from Scripture, is called the Seal of the righteousness of Faith] demonstrateth as much. And thereupon he showeth the reason why the Papists so much urge that difference between the Sacraments of the old & new Testament, viz. because they endeavour by any manner of means to defend and stablish the opinion they have of their opus operatum Chemnit•y Exam. par. 2. de Sacram▪sub canon. 2. What a forcible engine of the man of […] this is, and of what vast concernment as to his interest, I need not here express, and what arrows of Anabaptism, drawn out of this very quiver, have been shot against the Orthodox in this point, is known unto not a few.
3. The Sacraments of the old Law (or Testament saith Bellarmine had no absolute promise of Grace annexed, & the promises annexed to thos• old Sacraments were fulfilled, although men did not believe. Read Ames against him ibid. • 1. cap. 4. the. 5, 7. Again, the Papists [saith Chemnithold; that God, by the Sacraments of the old Testament, which had eve• the word of promise annexed, did ex•tbite & conferr no grace to Believeres which [saith he] is manifestly false; Circumcision alone [which, as he sheweth from Scripture, is called the Seal of the righteousness of Faith] demonstrateth as much. And thereupon he sheweth the reason why the Papists so much urge that difference between the Sacraments of the old & new Testament, viz. because they endeavour by any manner of meanes to defend and stablish the opinion they have of their opus operatum Chemnit•y Exam. par. 2. de Sacramsub canon. 2. What a forcible engine of the man of this is, and of what vast concernment as to his interest, I need not here express, and what arrows of Anabaptisme, drawn out of this very quiver, have been shot against the Orthodox in this point, is known unto not a few.