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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.
CHAP. II.
The first Argument propounded, viz. because the persons in Question ought to be acknowledged members of the visible Church, Proved (1.) From the Definition of the visible Church, which is adhered to by Co•gregationals of the Savoy meeting, and by Dr. Owen. (2.) From Mat. 16. 18. (3.) Else we unchurch all men but our selves. (4.) In that it is a most dreadful thing to be wholly excluded out of the visible Church, evinced by sundry Scriptures, which are occasionally opened. (5.) If they be not of the Church, then they are of the world only, and so belonging to Satan (6.) Because the persons in Question are not amongst those whom the Scripture stileth ⟨p. 4⟩[Greek or Hebrew] or them without. (7.) Because they are true worshippers.
THe first Argument propounded, viz. because the persons in Question ought to be acknowledged members of the visible Church, Proved (1.) From the Definition of the visible Church, which is adhered to by Co•gregationals of the Savoy meeting, and by Dr. Owen. (2.) From Mat. 16. 18. (3.) Else we unchurch all men but our selves. (4.) In that it is a most dreadful thing to be wholly excluded out of the visible Church, evinced by sundry Scriptures, which are occasionally opened. (5.) If they be not of the Church, then they are of the world only, and so belonging to Satan (6.) Because the persons in Question are not amongst those whom the Scripture stileth ⟨p. 4⟩〈non-Latin alphabet〉 or them without. (7.) Because they are true worshippers.