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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.
CHAP. X.
The third Objection, viz. That membership in a particular Church gathered according to Gospel Rules giveth right to ⟨p. 45⟩Baptism. The particular Church by some taken in a very strict Sense, viz. for those unto whom Christ hath Committed the power of the keys, more largely for that part of Christs visible Kingdom, which doth reside in such a particular place. The persons in Question members of the particular Church, not in the former, but in the latter Sense. That the visible and particular Churches are not one and the same, proved. That membership in the particular Church is not the formal Reason of Baptism, proved from Scripture and Reason.
THe third Objection, viz. That membership in a particular Church gathered according to Gospel Rules giveth right to ⟨p. 45⟩Baptisme. The particular Church by some taken in a very strict Sense, viz. for those unto whom Christ hath Committed the power of the keys, more largely for that part of Christs visible Kingdome, which doth reside in such a particular place. The persons in Question members of the particular Church, not in the former, but in the latter Sense. That the visible and particular Churches are not one and the same, proved. That membership in the particular Church is not the formal Reason of Baptisme, proved from Scripture and Reason.
We proceed to Consider a third Objection, viz. that membership in a particular Church constituted according to Gospel Rules is that which doth give right to Baptism, which since it cannot be affirmed concerning the Children in Controversy, therefore it may seem that they have no Title to Baptism.