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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.
The second Objection, viz. that if the person in Question have right to Baptism, they must also be Admitted to the Lords Table, as none of old were Circumcised, but they were moreover Admitted to the Passover. ⟨p. 41⟩That persons may have right to Baptism, and yet not to the Lords Supper; proved from Scripture and Reason.
THe second Objection, viz. that if the person in Question have right to Baptisme, they must also be Admitted to the Lords Table, as none of old were Circumcised, but they were moreover Admitted to the Passover. ⟨p. 41⟩That persons may have right to Baptisme, and yet not to the Lords Supper; proved from Scripture and Reason.
Baptism is a Seal of Initiation, Regeneration, insition into Christ, and not of growth in grace, which the Lords Supper doth Seal. Persons may be capable of receiving Baptism that are incapable of partaking at the Lords Table, some amongst the Jews admitted to Circumcision that were not admitted to the Passover or full Communion in all Church Privileges.
Baptisme is a Seal of Initiation, Regeneration, insition into Christ, and not of growth in grace, which the Lords Supper doth Seal. Persons may be capable of receiving Baptisme that are incapable of partaking at the Lords Table, some amongst the Iews admitted to Circumcision that were not admitted to the Passover or full Communion in all Church Priviledges.
It is further objected by some, that if such persons have right to Baptism, then also to the Lords Supper, as those that had right to Circumcision were admitted to the Passover. But it may be Answered that it doth in no wise follow, that if these persons have right to Baptism, that then they have right to the Lords Supper. For no Paedo-Baptist will affirm, that the same Qualifications are required for Baptism which are required for Admittance to the Lords Table; The Scripture maketh a plain difference here, for Disciples