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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.
Furthermore, Baptism is a Sacrament of Initiation, or Insition into Christ, as those Scripture Expressions of being baptized into Christ, baptized into one body, &c. do evince, Gal. 3. 27. Rom. 6. 3. 1 Cor 12. 13.
Furthermore, Baptisme is a Sacrament of Initiation, or Insition into Christ, as those Scripture Expressions of being baptized into Christ, baptized into one body, &c. do evince, Gal. 3. 27. Rom. 6. 3. 1 Cor 12. 13.
Hence we read of twelve gates in New Jerusalem, Rev. 21. 12. which Judicious Interpreters take to be an Allusion as to the ⟨p. 42⟩[x]twelve gates which were in literal Jerusalem, so to the twelve Congregations which are supposed to have been in Christian Jerusalem, (I mean the Christians which lived in Jerusalem before the Romans destroyed it) wherein baptism was administered, and thereby persons admitted, (i. e. Sacramentally) into the Heavenly Jerusalem, i. e. the Catholic Church. It is a Seal not of growth in grace, but of Regeneration, Tit. 3. 5. I Confess this Notion hath been misunderstood and abused by many, but that doth not make it to be an untruth. It was a perverting of this Principle, when those Ancient Superstitions were introduced of giving milk and honey to those that were newly baptized, ad Infantandum as Tertullian speaketh to signify the Spiritual Infancy and Regeneration of those that were baptized, and of applying salt, &c to them, because those Customs were of old used towards new born Infants,