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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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7. Ba•ly the Jesuit (whom Rivet encountereth) to the Question between the Orthodox and the Papists; viz. Whether the Infants of believers are holy before Baptism? he answereth roundly for them; NO. Rivet C•th Orthod. Tract. 3.9 3.
7. Ba•ly the Jesuite (whom Rivet encountereth) to the Question between the Orthodox and the Papists; viz. Whether the Infants of believers are holy before Baptisme? he answereth roundly for them; NO. Rivet C•th Orthod. Tract. 3.9 3.
And touching that famous place controverted between ourselves and the […], in regard of their wresting, and perverting the sense of that Scripture, 1 Cor. 7. 14. [ […] were your Children ⟨image ?⟩unclean, but now they are Holy] we may observe how they […] in e•e steps of the Papists that have gone before them therein, •as they likewise do in that noted Scripture Col 2. 11, 12▪ not allowing Baptism to answer Circumcision according to the mind and meaning of the Holy Ghost: wherein see Ames against them, Bel• […] Tom. 3. ••. Ca•. 4. Thes. 13.. and Rivet in Gen. 12 Exercise: 88. Pag. 340. &c. Take a taste of that 1 Cor. 7. as followeth; Barley ([…] Jesuit) before Cited, ibid: quest. 3. laboureth thus to avoid the dint of that text, The Apostle (saith he) either speaks of a civil Sanctification before men, that the Infants should not be ILLEGIT AM ATE or BASTARDS: or else of an Instrumental Sanctification, because that one shall procure the Salvation of the other, &c. the like we find of Bellarmine's apprehension and Judgment of the sense of that Scripture; Such Children (saith he) are said to be not (unclean) that is, infamous and BASTARDS but (holy) that is, LEGITIMATE, and free from civil ignomie: Ames. Ibid. Ib. 2. C. 1 Thes. 6. The Rhemists also very perniciously abuse this Scripture (and are not therein, without their Antipaedobaptisticall followers) Blessed Cartwright excellently upon the place in his confutation of their annotations on the new-Testament defend's this cause of Christ against their Popish glosses: It is (saith he) one thing (oftentimes in the Scripture) to be Sanctified, and another to be holy: as for you, you […] in both: for when it is said, the unbelieving party is Sanctified by the believing, it is not only meant, as you say, that the Marriage is an occasion of the Sanctification to the infidel party, but that the use of the infidel party, in Marriage company, is Sanctified, or made holy and lawful unto the believing party; as meat and drink is said to be Sanctified unto us by the word & Prayer,