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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.
1. That they whose notion is, that the particular Church is a Spiritual Corporation entrusted with the power of the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, whereof women and Children are only members Inclusively, and not properly Constituent, or whose notion is that membership in the particular Church, is not the formal Reason of Baptism, are not at all concerned in this Objection.
1. That they whose notion is, that the particular Church is a Spiritual Corporation entrusted with the power of the Keys of the Kingdome of Heaven, whereof women and Children are only members Inclusively, and not properly Constituent, or whose notion is that membership in the particular Church, is not the formal Reason of Baptisme, are not at all concerned in this Objection.
2. The Synod doth sufficiently provide for the purity of Churches, inasmuch as they exclude the persons in Question from the Lords Table, and that Privilege of voting in Church affairs, till they be further Qualified: Now it is not Baptism which will Corrupt particular Churches, but the admission of persons unduly qualified to the management of the affairs of Christs Kingdom, and to the Supper of the Lord, which is an Ordinance peculiarly belonging to those in, (and never regularly Administered to any out of) particular Churches. And as for a faithful Care concerning Admissions to the Lords Table. I know no men that have been more regularly strict and exact about that matter, then those that have been strenuous Assertors of Baptism according to the Synodical Latitude.
2. The Synod doth sufficiently provide for the purity of Churches, inasmuch as they exclude the persons in Question from the Lords Table, and that Priviledge of vering in Church affairs, till they be further Qualifyed: Now it is not Baptisme which will Corrupt particular Churches, but the admission of persons unduely qual•fyed to the management of the affairs of Christs Kingdome, and to the Supper of the Lord, which is an Ordinance peculiarly belonging to those in, (and never regularly Administred to any out of) particular Churches. And as for a faithful Care concerning Admissions to the Lords Table. I know no men that have been more regularly strict and exact about that matter, then those that have been strenuous Assertors of Baptisme according to the Synodical Latitude.