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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. XI.
The fourth objection that such large Administration of Baptism will Corrupt Churches, Answered. The Synod provideth against the evil, Discipline the way to keep Churches pure, undue straining of the Subject of Baptism, will end in Church Corruption. The fifth objection Answered. That it is the visibility of a Justifying Faith that giveth right to Baptism, the persons in Question to be accounted Believers. It followeth not that therefore they are Immediately admirable to the Lords Supper.
THe fourth objection that such large Administration of Baptisme will Corrupt Churches, Answered. The Synod provideth against the evil, Discipline the way to keep Churches pure, undue straining of the Subject of Baptisme, will end in Church Corruption. The fifth objection Answered. That it is the visibility of a Justifying Faith that giveth right to Baptisme, the persons in Question to be accounted Believers. It followeth not that therefore they are Immediately admittable to the Lords Supper.
It is in the fourth place objected, that the Administration of Baptism, according to the pleaded for Latitude is inconsistent with the purity of particular Churches? Answer. It is such a pleasant thing to hear men plead for the purity of Churches, as that, though they should miss it, in their Apprehensions, we may well bear with them, yea, the Lord the Searcher of all hearts, when he seeth a […] aim at holiness in his Servants doth many […] not only overlook their mistakes, but also reward their Sincerity, ⟨p. 51⟩