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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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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, Deut. 7. 6. & 14. 2. & 26. 18, 19. Ezra. 9. 2. Dan. 8. 24. & 12. 7. therefore also the Covenant is called the Holy Covenant, Dan. 11. 28, 30. Luk. 2. 23. Because they that are within the Covenant are an Holy People, See Mr. Hooker of the Covenant, pag. 41. 1The Scripture speaketh of an Holiness which is transmitted from Father to Child,