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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
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Argument 9. That Assertion which is a most uncomfortable saddening Doctrine to the Godly, both Parents and Children is to be rejected, as not being from the Spirit of truth. God speaketh comfortably to his People, Isai. 40. 1. and would not have their hearts saddened, Ezek. 13. 22. and the spirit of truth is the Comforter, Job. 16. 7. But it is another Spirit which is the Author of all Doctrines which are indeed dark and uncomfortable to those that fear the Lord, and so is this Assertion.
1. Its uncomfortable to Godly Parents, How great a comfort is it to a godly man, to think; though I dye and leave• the World and my poor Children are left behind me, yet God will be with and bless them when I am gone, Gen. 25. 11. & 48. 21. Prov. 20. 7. I leave them interested in God for ever. As a precious man when dying, called his Children about him and said, Children, I have nothing to leave you, but a God, and a gracious Covenant, and that's enough for you. So on the other hand, how […] and dismal is it, for a man to think, my Children when once they are grown up to years of discretion have no interest in God, no• in the Covenant of his Grace, were this Doctrine true it would be enough to break the heart of a godly man, who ⟨p. 62⟩prizeth the Lords Covenant above a thousand Worlds: But blessed be God that it is false.
1. Its uncomfortable to Godly Parents, How great a comfort is it to a godly man, to think; though I dye and leave the World and my poor Children are left behinde me, yet God will be with and bless them when I am gone,