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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.
Argument 2. They that in the Judgement of rational Charity have not a visible Interest in the thing sealed in Baptism, 1have go right to the Seal. God hath joined, the exhibiting sign and ⟨p. 68⟩the thing exhibited together, therefore men must have a Care that they do not knowingly put them asunder, I say not that we must know that there is the thing sealed, wherever we do apply the Seal, but I say that we may not apply the Seal, when we know there is not the thing sealed, for so to act, were in baptizing to Contradict the nature and blessed Ends of Baptism. But there are many who profess Christianity, that yet in the Judgement of rational Charity have not a visible Interest in the thing sealed in Baptism. For Baptism is unto the party baptized a Sign and Seal of his Union with Christ, Rom. 6. 5. Gal. 3. 27. of Regeneration, Tit. 3. 5. John 3. 6. of Remission of sins, Mark 1. 4. of his being Engaged to walk in newness of Life, Rom. 6. 3, 4. when as the plain contrary unto all these particulars is sadly visible and apparent concerning the greatest Number of those that profess Christianity in the world. Ergo they have not right to Baptism.
Argument 2. They that in the Judgement of rational Charity have not a visible Interest in the thing sealed in Baptisme, 1have go right to the Seal. God hath joyned, the exhibiting signe and ⟨p. 68⟩the thing exhibited together, therefore men must have a Care that they do not knowingly put them asunder, I say not that we must know that there is the thing sealed, wherever we do apply the Seal, but I say that we may not apply the Seal, when we know there is not the thing sealed, for so to act, were in baptizing to Contradict the nature and blessed Ends of Baptisme. But there are many who profess Christianity, that yet in the Judgement of rational Charity have not a visible Interest in the thing sealed in Baptisme. For Baptisme is unto the party baptized a Signe and Seal of his Union with Christ,