N00149:147
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.
2. Whereas its said that a Membership received in Infancy cannot continue but is always invalid and extinct, when the Infant cometh to be Adult, that assertion cannot be truth, as the following Arguments do manifest.
2. Whereas its said that a Membership received in Infancy cannot continue but is alwayes invalid and extinct, when the Infant cometh to be Adult, that assertion cannot be truth, as the following Arguments do manifest.
Argument; 1. If the part or interest which some Infants have in the Lord doth continue, when they are Adult, then their membership received in Infancy doth not always cease & vanish when they are adult, for to be a Church member & to have a part in ⟨p. 57⟩the Lord are terms equivalent, Josh. 22. 24, 25, 27. 1The Church and the People of God are the same thing variously expressed, 2 Chron. 23. 16. our English word Church is [d]thought to come from [Greek or Hebrew] which is as much as to say the Lords People, To be of the number of Gods People and to be a Church member are one and the same; To be continued a Member of the Church is to be continued amongst the number of the Lords People, or to remain one of them that do belong to the only true God, but the part or interest which some Infants have in the Lord doth continue when Adult: That Interest which Timothy and his Mother and Grandmother had in the Lord whilst they were Infants did continue when they were Adult, 2 Tim. 1. 5