N00045:37
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.
not that every one which is born under the Covenant is holy, but that they are so to be taken of the Church, until the contrary do manifestly appear, &c.
By the premises we may see therefore whence [even from that MOTHER of harlots] probably this Illegitimate birth, this antichristian sl•ud of Anabaptism hath issued forth; yea and I also fear is like to be nursed, and maintained nit's course, until God hath […] up those breasts, and rivers of spiritual Babylon, in the mean ⟨image ?⟩while, Calvins admonition touching Anabaptism, may not be unseasonable, mer•ise debet nobis esle suspectum, quicquid a tale […] produr•t. Op•scu•• in Psychopannychia. Pag. 411. S. M.
By the premises we may see therefore whence [even from that MOTHER of harlots] probably this Illegitimate birth, this antichristian sl•ud of Anabaptisme hath issued forth; yea and I also fear is like to be nursed, and maintained n it's course, until God hath 〈…〉 up those breasts, and rivers of spiritual Babylon, in the mean ⟨image ?⟩while, Calvins admonition touching Anabaptisme, may not be unseasonable, mer•ise debet nobis esle suspectum, quicquid a tale 〈…〉 produr•t. Op•scu•• in Psychopannychia. Pag. 411. S. M.