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A discourse concerning the subject of baptism wherein the present controversies, that are agitated…A discourse concerning the subject of baptisme wherein the present controversies, that are agitated…
A discourse concerning the subject of baptism wherein the present controversies, that are agitated in the New English churches are from Scripture and reason modestly enquired into / by Increase Mather, teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Sixteen lines of quotations]A discourse concerning the subject of baptisme wherein the present controversies, that are agitated in the New English churches are from Scripture and reason modestly enquired into / by Increase Mather, teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Sixteen lines of quotations]
printed by Samuel Green, 1675
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.
Cawdry, who chargeth the Doctor with some Inconstancy of Judgement, for that he saw Cause after his writing for the Presbyterian to appear on the behalf of the Congregational way. [t]He that can glory that in fourteen years be hath not Altered or improved his Conceptions of some things of no greater Importance then that mentioned, shall not have me for his Rival. So I say, that person who though his Course of life lead unto Constant study and enquiry after Truth, yet shall not in the space of twelve years change his Apprehension in any matter, though of as great a Concern [and a greater too] as this now under debate, hath more Reason to be ashamed [if not of his pertinacy yet] of his non-proficiency in knowledge, then to boast of his non-Apostacy. I shall proceed then to mention those Objections [with some others] which once were prevalent with me to Cause a dissent from the Proposition thus far asserted and proved, and also the Answers which to me seem satisfactory.
Cawdry, who chargeth the Doctor with some Inconstancy of Judgement, for that he saw Cause after his writing for the Presbyterian to appear on the behalf of the Congregational way. [t]He that can glory that in fourteen years be hath not Altered or improved his Conceptions of some things of no greater Importance then that mentioned, shall not have me for his Rival. So I say, that person who though his Course of life lead unto Constant study and enquiry after Truth, yet shall not in the space of twelve years change his Apprehension in any matter, though of as great a Concern [and a greater too] as this now under debate, hath more Reason to be ashamed [if not of his pertinacy yet] of his non-proficiency in knowledge, then to boast of his non-Apostacy. I shall proceed then to mention those Objections [with some others] which once were prevalent with me to Cause a dissent from the Proposition thus farr asserted and proved, and also the Answers which to me seem satisfactory.
- [t]see his review of Schism. p. 45.see his review of Schisme. p. 45.