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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. I.
The Introduction to the ensuing Discourse.
The first Question Propounded, viz. Whether Persons Qualified according to the fifth Proposition of the late Synod, have right to Baptism? The […] of the Proposition expressed, the Question rightly stated. That the the Synod doth not affirm, that unqualified persons, o• that Grand children as such have right to Baptism. The affirmative part of the Question Concluded.
The first Question Propounded, viz. Whether Persons Qualified according to the fifth Proposition of the late Synod, have right to Baptisme? The 〈…〉 of the Proposition expressed, the Question rightly statd. That the the Synod doth not affi•me, that unqualified persons, o• that Grand children as such have right to Baptisme. The affirmative part of the Question Concluded.
That the blessed Sacraments of the New Testament, which are in their own Nature Signs & Seals of the greatest Union have been an occasion of much Dispute in the world, is known to all men. Yea such is our darkness who know but in part, as that these uniting Mysteries of the Gospel, have accidentally sent a fire not only between the Church & the world, [which we need not to wonder at) but even amongst Christians themselves, & tha too of a more Pure & Reforme profession. To say nothing what happened soon after Apostles & Apostolical men fell asleep in the Lord; the last Century hath sadly evidenced the truth hereof in those controversies about the Eucharist; which have been agitated not only between Prostan and Papists, but also Lutherans and […], as they are called formerly, indeed the dispute hath been […], upon other Accounts; But in this last Age the great Question is about right to Sacraments, or the Subjects unto whom they are regularly applied Concerning a right to partake at the Lord Table, there hath not been so great a Controversy in these New-[…], as there hath been touching right to Baptism, it being upon […], […]