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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.
this is as if one should say, there is something required of an Officer in a Church, which is not required of other members, therefore there is a specific difference between the membership of an Officer and of a common member. The other Principle upon which this notion of non-continuance of membership is founded, is that the holiness of Infants is only imputed, and therefore it ceaseth, when they being capable to act for themselves are incapable of Advantage by mere Parental Imputed Holiness?
this is as if one should say, there is something required of an Officer in a Church, which is not required of other members, therefore there is a specifical difference between the membership of an Officer and of a common member. The other Principle upon which this notion of non-continuance of membership is founded, is that the holyness of Infants is only imputed, and therefore it ceaseth, when they being capable to act for themselves are incapable of Advantage by meer Parental Imputed Holiness?
Answer, Should it be affirmed that the inherent Sanctification of the parent is imputed to the Child that were a dangerous Assertion, and were in effect to make the Parent the Child's Christ, but if the meaning of the Objection be, only that the Parents profession and act of confederation, is so imputed to his Child as that he is there by reputed a Professor and Confederator, this is true but it toucheth not the Question; For Confutation then, we affirm, that the Holiness of Infants is real. Federal Holiness is real, but the Holiness of Infants is federal, 1 Cor. 7. 14. Deut. 29. 13. Besides, it is a marvellous mistake to think that persons Adult, or that Infants are said to be holy, only upon account of ⟨p. 64⟩Inherent or qualitati•• Holiness, for the Scripture acknowledgeth foederai Holiness. Thus the body of the Israelitish Nation was Holy. As to, Inherent Holiness or saving Sanctification, the greatest part of them were strangers to it, but they were all federally Holy,